The concert prepared by Jakub Hruša and the world-famous pianist Daniil Trifonov starts with Scriabin’s brilliant Piano Concerto. For the second half of the concert they perform Josef Suk’s iconic Asrael Symphony. “In the case of the Piano Concerto…

Alphaville, Germany's biggest synth-pop export and creators of the legendary 80s anthems "Big in Japan", "Sounds like a Melody" and "Forever Young" are looking back on 40 years of band history and export their greatest hits to the symphonic world…

Located between the sea and the mountains, right in the centre of the city of Barcelona, stands the Sagrada Família. It has been an emblematic building from the very beginning; an expiatory temple created by thousands of people and the work of…

The first concert of the season features three works, each expressing in its own way the search for peace and reconciliation. The 2022-23 season opens with a programme that, like the rest of the season, has everything: Beethoven’s Ninth, a…

Copland wrote his ballet score Appalachian Spring for a 13-member chamber ensemble in 1944. Since then, it has had several orchestral arrangements. The one on the programme is by the evening’s conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Balancing it out is…

Part I of the closing concert of the 2022 Verbier Festival with Alexander Malofeev as soloist in Prokofiev's Piano concerto No.3 with Balakirev's Islamey as an encore, once considered the most difficult piano work ever written.

The orchestra performs in Prague for the very first time. "Under the direction of its conductor and founder François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles is one of the most remarkable and progressive ensembles today," says Josef Třeštík, director of programming…

Highlights from Young Euro Classic 2022, live recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin.

Live from the Summer Festival Baden-Baden 2022. Hidden behind Schumann's Piano Concerto is a love story. The work’s main melody represents Schumann's wife Clara. And quite literally: in the Schumann home, Clara was called "Chiara" in Italian. If we…

Humour us by answering the following question: how many Black classical performers do you know off the top of your head? The Chineke! Foundation is trying to break through the privilege gap leading to this lop-sidedness: since 2015 the British…