French music has long enriched the world of classical music with its radiant colours and returning to the Czech Philharmonic with just such a palette is conductor Alain Altinoglu who also treats the audiences to the sounds of Italy. Appearing…

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve concert, conducted by Kirill Petrenko and featuring tenor Benjamin Bernheim, blends operatic heartbreak with vibrant energy. Bernheim brings us the love-sick anguish of famous operatic heroes: Don José…

Celebrating the piano: One of the programme highlights of the 2025 edition is with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. The Youngsters series at Zeche Zollern offers audiences a unique cultural experience. In the stunning setting of this Art Nouveau colliery, rising…

The Klavier-Festival Ruhr is a premier international piano festival held across 17 cities in Germany’s Ruhr region, featuring over 100 artists performing in 25 venues, with a diverse programme encompassing classical masterpieces, contemporary works…

For the last time, the Berliner Philharmoniker perform at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden. This festive concert, conducted by Jakub Hrůša features the young pianist Seong-Jin Cho, who enjoys pop star status in his home country South Korea. It is…

Introduced and narrated by grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma, “Jacqueline du Pré: Genius and Tragedy”, tells the story of the enigmatic cellist, whose career was cruelly curtailed by multiple sclerosis when she was just twenty-eight years old. It is…

With its brick-red façade, a gleaming white entrance area and a magnificent red and gold auditorium, the venue for this year’s Europakonzert, Bari’s Teatro Petruzzelli, is an architectural jewel. Under the direction of Riccardo Muti, the Berliner…

The Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen's Two Lieder is dedicated to violinist Christina Åstrand. Herbstlied and Liebeslied are both transformations of Abrahamsen's own music – he often works with rediscoveries of his own pieces, which are transformed…

Schönberg’s masterful string piece Verklärte Nacht tells the story of a loving couple walking through the night. The woman nervously reveals that she is carrying a child that is not her lover's, but he is magnanimous and replies that the child will…

The string section of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs Richard Strauss' sublime elegy: Metamorphosen, meaning "Transformations." The piece was composed during the final months of World War II. Strauss includes Beethoven "in memoriam"…