This performance of Fauré’s Requiem combines the historically informed musicians of Les Siècles performing on historically accurate instruments and the Ensemble Aedes who perform choral works form the last five centuries. A more organ-dominated…

Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet White Darkness as a requiem for his sister. The result is a masterpiece which, according to critics, has reached heights deemed hitherto impossible on the landscape of modern arts. In contrast, American…

The Tallis Scholars perform the Missa de Sancto Donatiano, which more than five centuries later still is an astonishing masterpiece. The ensemble continues to develop their exclusive sound, praised by reviewers for its supple clarity and tone, and to…

In this mystical, enchanting and hypnotic choreography, Hervé Koubi retraces his own history by relating it to the story of a young boy from a novel by Yasmina Khadra. Together with twelve dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, originally street…

A ballet based on the album GO, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi. The Feeling of Going is a large-scale, visually stunning theatre production by choreographer Ben Wright, set to the mesmerizing album GO, by Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi. The songs are…

“Jazz is more than just a style of music”, says Amro Salah. “It’s about freedom.” Salah, a jazz pianist, is an enthusiastic promoter of the genre. Every year he organises the Cairo Jazz Festival, but doesn’t view himself as a festival director: He is…

Barbarian Nights is the second oeuvre of Hervé Koubi with twelve Algerian and Burkinan dancers, selected on an audition in Algeria in 2009. When Koubi speaks of barbarians it is in its historical sense , and to remind us that the Mediterranean…

Aterballetto is the principal producing and touring dance company in Italy. They are well-known for their ability to shift their style across a wide range of musical genres, from classical to pop and jazz. Jiří Pokorny‘s “Words and Space” is a…

Thierry Malandain followed the usual path of a classical dancer but with a strong taste for the unconventional and an unusual tenacity. For the Malandain Ballet series, he choreographed Silhouette, Estro and Nocturnes, with all three programmes…

Anoushka Shankar‘s father Ravi was a close personal friend of Yehudi Menuhin. For the 2016Menuhin hommage at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Anoushka honours this friendship with an evening of Indian music and traditional raggas. The famous sitar player…