Country music does not enjoy a good reputation - at least not in Europe. Country is barely within the boundaries of good taste. Country ‒ that’s botoxed women and flabby men with guitars. Just one look at the American Country Music Awards (ACM) and…

Renowned soprano Measha Brueggergosman performs a unique program of Freedom Songs that have emerged from Africa via the slave trade to America, then to Canada via the United Empire Loyalist migration and the Underground Railroad. The songs constitute…

“The world is a haunted house and Helnwein is our tour guide through it” — Sean Penn Gottfried Helnwein & The Dreaming Child” is a wonderful look at the titular Austrian photorealist painter. It is both a visual feast and landmark union of artistic…

The Italian Character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years. Simultaneously, it tells about a national institution and about an approach to life that is characteristic…

Arriving in La Havana, once we pass through the other side of the tropical mirror, we penetrate into a world where logical has no currency anymore. Havana is the city of the company Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. Here, the temperaments of the dancers…

"Touching the Sound" traces Nobuyuki's life long struggle to become a world-class pianist from his birth, his young years as a student, on a recent American tour, and to the earthquake and tsunami devastated areas of Japan filmed May 2013, ending at…

In the ensemble’s Advent concerts at the Marktkirche, the Knabenchor Hannover sets out under the baton of Jörg Breiding in search of the dynamics and tensions that build up in the weeks between the First Sunday of Advent and Christmas Day – the…

In a little street in Brussels named Rue Bosquet, two identical buildings stand together. In one of these buildings lives the famous concert pianist Martha Argerich, the Argentine who is recognized as one of the most original and temperamental…

Virtuosity searches for the musical souls of the most gifted young pianists on the planet as they try to make a name for themselves at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competiton. The pressure on these kids is overwhelming, because the stakes…

How did artists survive in the Soviet Union? How tricky did they have to be in the face of authorities? What kind of danger and difficulties did they have to fear? Gennadi Rozhdestvensky talks about authorities, watchdogs and the political system in…