“Mariss Jansons: A Tale of Four Orchestras” tells the Latvian maestro’s story through the eyes of the four leading orchestras which he led, either as Music Director or Chief Conductor: the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony…

in postproduction Much like Rachmaninoff, who struggled to be taken seriously as he stuck to his post-romantic compositional style, in this documentary, Igudesman - also an immigrant and a prolific composer - tries to be honest about the innate…

For millions of fans, Rachmaninoff is synonymous with IGUDESMAN&JOO, thanks to the viral hit “Rachmaninoff Had Big Hands”. Now the duo symphonically and rhapsodically celebrates their hero while achieving the impossible by making the epic Piano…

Violinist, composer and conductor, living through two world wars, caught between east and west, capitalism and communism: the remarkable and glittering life of German artist Paul Dessau is more than a good story – it is designated for the medium of…

So, what is this “Arod”? A forgotten composer, a mythical city, a mysterious acrostic? In fact, the Arod Quartet chose as their tutelary figure a horse imagined by Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings. A symbol of strength and ardor. The Quartet was born…

Upcoming Production: Sat 24 Jun 2023, 8:15pm Radiant heroes, eerie forests: The Berliner Philharmoniker and conductor Andris Nelsons end the season at the Waldbühne with romantic opera. They will be joined by star tenor Klaus Florian Vogt, who is a…

Upcoming Recording April 2023 Orchestras once played Bach as well as Bruckner. Only specialised ensembles showed that note and performance signs have changed their meaning quite a bit over the centuries. So far, so theoretical: in practice, Handel's…

Upcoming live recording: 27 April 2023: The concert prepared by Jakub Hruša and the world-famous pianist Daniil Trifonov will start with Scriabin’s brilliant Piano Concerto. For the second half of the concert they perform Josef Suk’s iconic Asrael…

Upcoming Live recording: 12.06.2023 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…

The German cellist Tanja Tetzlaff performs J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites Nos. 4 and 5 amid natural surroundings devastated by climate change. Beauty confronts its own destruction. Do we really want to watch without lifting a finger? Melting glaciers…