On a Sunday evening in August in the Berliner Waldbühne around 20,000 people with rain gear and blankets held thousands of colorful umbrellas while listening to Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester’s hits of the twenties and early-thirties. As the most…

He is without doubt one of the most beloved pianists of our times; the young Evgeny Kissin is back at the Verbier Festival for a Schubert and Scriabin recital. His perfect virtuosity and the lyricism of his interpretations have made him one of the…

The Verbier Festival is arguably one of the most prestigious classical music events in the world. The quality of the participating artists as well as the originality of the programmes has established the festival as a culminating point in the music…

On November 10, 2011, Nobuyuki Tsujii, the blind pianist from Japan who was the winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Gold Medal in 2009 appeared on the stage of Carnegie Hall. His dream had come true. Arguably the most important…

It is so rare that it deserves a special mention: in June 2013 Grigory Sokolov, a piano superstar, gave his approval for his recital at the Berliner Philharmonie to be filmed. The last time his performance was filmed live was in November 2002, more…

This piano recital given by the 21 year old virtuoso Daniil Trifonov gathers three pieces written during or in a souvenir of a love story. Scriabin dedicated his Sonata Fantasy No. 2 to his first love, Natalya Sekerina. Lizst wrote his unique sonata…

Live recorded at the exceptional setting of the Orangerie du Château de Versailles. Natalie Dessay and Michel Legrand take us on a journey through all the magic of the songs created by Michel Legrand. More creative than ever, Legrand returns to the…

Violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Daniil Trifonov, live at the Eglise de Verbier, for a concert in which they play masterpieces of the violin and piano repertoire! Third and last concert of Daniil Trifonov at the 2014 Verbier Festival: following…

2015 marked the 175th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. For this event, the Russian pianist Denis Matsuev performed the complete Seasons, one of the most popular works of the classical music repertoire in Russia. The programme of…

German Network ZDF called Scandale „classical music for the pop age“ - and that might just be the exact right way to describe the collaboration between Ott and Tristano. The recording radiates energy and joy - as do the two artists when they go on…