Following a highly successful small-group jazz concert at New York Town Hall on May 17, 1947, Armstrong's manager Joe Glaser dissolved the Armstrong big band on August 13, 1947 and established a six-piece small group. This group was called the All…

After more than 3 years of absence and millions of albums sold all over the world, the French singer ZAZ gave a unique concert in the Carrières de Lumières des Baux de Provence in October 2021. Accompanied by her musicians, she performs her greatest…

Yefim Bronfman plays Brahms Händel Variations op. 24 and Four Piano Pieces op. 119.

PARTS places humanity at the center of the stage, in its most modest garments. Fragile, destitute, haggard humanity, throwing its last forces into a dance of repair, a dance of purification, a dance for tomorrow. Because our anchors are not immutable…

German composer Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But there is another, lesser-known side to this story. For years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young…

The opera „Cosi fan tutte“ featured in a 2x45 minute best-of-version with narrator. The well-known film director Doris Dörrie, long established on the cinema scene as a master of comic genius and famed for her bitter-sweet love stories, had passed…

A series of recitals by the master pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy at a new peak in his career. Both his audiences and the critics have been aware in recent years of new dimensions in Ashkenazy's playing. This may stem in part from his broadening…

A series of recitals by the master pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy at a new peak in his career. Both his audiences and the critics have been aware in recent years of new dimensions in Ashkenazy's playing. This may stem in part from his broadening…

Vladimir Ashkenazy has had a particular affection for the music of Rachmaninoff throughout his professional life, and his performances have long had the ring both of authenticity and of deep commitment. This is not surprising in a Russian-born and…

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…