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…

Christian Zacharias is set to bid farewell to his piano, marking the occasion with a remarkable solo recital at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation in Martigny (Switzerland) Zacharias's repertoire for the evening features Franz Schubert's enchanting…

The charismatic Lahav Shani and the Israel Philharmonic welcome Spanish pianist Juan Pérez Floristán, 2021's Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition winner (an honor shared with Emanuel Ax, Kirill Gerstein, and Daniil Trifonov), to show off…

"Chopin. I am not afraid of Darkness" is an unusual documentary film asking whether classical music can heal places affected by war and suffering, taking the viewer on a cinematic journey through unique and sinister sceneries. It weaves the stories…

The tale: The author and the exact date of origin are unknown, but it is believed that the story was written around 900. The story details the life of Kaguya-hime, a princess from the Moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing…

The orchestra Les Métamorphoses and acclaimed cellist Pieter Wispelwey recorded an album around the works of Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg in the summer of 2021. Weinberg's music recounts the traumas, loss and tragedies he endured throughout…

Philippe Herreweghe, one of today's most profound and erudite Bach interpreters, and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their new vision of a musical work for which nobody can say the ultimate word. This concert film of Bach's Missa in h-moll was…

Julien Chauvin and the Concert de la Loge celebrate Vivaldi and Mozart in the famous Cour Marly at the Musée du Louvre. The concert features mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and violist Amihai Grosz. Together, they are taking advantage of an unusual…

“Play it again” sets out in search of the phenomena of repetition in music history: from the Middle Ages to minimal music, from the motets of Josquin des Prés to Maurice Ravel's Bolero and pop music, from Handel to the hand-made loops of Mike…

The Czech racing driver Eliška Junková races from victory to victory in a Bugatti—and inspires the composer Jaroslav Ježek to write his Bugatti Step. It became a legendary hit and the anthem of the 'young savages' who decisively shaped Czech music…