In 2020 Evgeny Kissin was awarded the prize of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. In his laudatory speech following the award ceremony in 2021, music critic Wolfram Goertz praised the world piano star for his “spectacularly earnest” approach to piano playing…

Envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, sloth, pride.... In the Catechism, seven offences are considered sins so extreme, that they cannot be forgiven. In art, they have inspired all genres: from Renaissance painters to Hollywood films. Eric Gauthier…

Compelling love duets, escalating conflicts and arias bursting with virtuosity and emotion. In his three Tudor Queens operas, bel canto master Gaetano Donizetti composed at the top of his game. In this concert, an international cast takes you on an…

In "Accident", death comes unexpectedly and abruptly to a family that has recently been challenged by the pater familia's marriage to a younger woman. When he dies suddenly, perhaps in a car accident, it becomes extremely important for her to push…

Few artists are as familiar with the piano works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann like Daniel Barenboim, who is well-known for his interpretations of Beethoven and Mozart‘s compositions in particular. This five episode mini-series recorded…

Few artists are as familiar with the piano works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann like Daniel Barenboim, who is well-known for his interpretations of Beethoven and Mozart‘s compositions in particular. This five episode mini-series recorded…

Few artists are as familiar with the piano works of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann like Daniel Barenboim, who is well-known for his interpretations of Beethoven and Mozart‘s compositions in particular. This five episode mini-series recorded…

OMG! Van Eyck was here. Celebrating Jan van Eyck: Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Commissioned by the City of Ghent and on the occasion of the Van Eyck Year 2020, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt wrote a new work with the world-famous altarpiece the…

In the first concert with Renaud Capuçon, we have three masterpieces, which, although they adopt the three-movement structure dear to Vivaldi and present features that bring them closer to the Italian models, are distinguished by their contrapuntal…

Be it Andalusian flamenco, which arose in exchange with Moorish traditions, passions unleashed in close contact to the Provence in France, or Latin America’s musical life, which flourishes at the other end of the Atlantic Ocean: the Berliner…