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…

Schumann’s oratorio Paradise and the Peri stands apart from the usual oratorio repertoire because of its secular subject matter that was so typical of the German composer. Its beautiful melodies and loftiness of expression are definitely worthy of…

Celebrating democracy, freedom and non-violence, the Czech Philharmonic’s concert to mark the Velvet Revolution took place for the first time in 2020. Every year on 17 November – both the day the then Czechoslovak riot police brutally supressed a…

The beginning of the season belongs to Antonín Dvořák, in part because the beginnings of the Czech Philharmonic are associated with him personally. At the opening concert the orchestra will be welcoming for the first time the outstanding Augustin…

The spirit and humor of the great Danish composer, Carl Nielsen, is full blown in this concert with his classic Helios Overture – where the magnificent horns show the sunrise and sunset – the cheerful Springtime in Funen with Children’s choir…

Listen to the sea, the birds and the sounds of crowds welcoming the ferry to the Faroe Islands and the following festivity in An Imaginary Journey to the Faroe Islands - one of Nielsen’s last pieces for orchestra. The Hymnus Amoris is about love and…

The often-played prelude to act II from Carl Nielsen’s opera Saul & David initiates this concert followed by the charming and moody flute concerto brilliant performed by Danish flutist Ulla Miilmann. The Sinfonia Espansiva is exploding with symphonic…

The dramatic side of Carl Nielsen explodes in his 4th Symphony, ‘The Inextinguishable’, where a duel between two tympanists underlines the struggle between light and dark. In the Clarinet Concerto, it is Carl Nielsen’s inner fiddler that takes us on…

In Symphony No. 5, Carl Nielsen soars to cosmic heights when creating a completely new type of symphony about the human will to live and our demons – perhaps his most innovative work. The Korean star violinist Bomsori Kim has taken over his unique…

Carl Nielsen’s last symphony, No. 6, is humorous, down-to-earth and head-strong music which, with its many surprises, was to become a musical will full of good spirits and astonishment. The concert begins with Nielsen’s music for the tale of Aladdin…