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…

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…

Danzón! Live recording 28 June 2025, 8:15 pm, A Latin-American Night Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker welcome the audience to a Latin American night at the Waldbühne in Berlin as the end-of-season concert 2025. Dudamel celebrated his…

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"…

Waltraud Meier, born in 1956 in Würzburg, made musical history. Celebrated worldwide for her unmistakable timbre and unique expressive power, she set new standards above all as an interpreter of Wagner and is considered the " most famous Isolde of…

La Cetra’s Vespro di Natale has become a festive mainstay of the ensemble’s repertoire in recent years. Devised by the group’s artistic director, Andrea Marcon, it brings together music for Advent and Christmas not only by Claudio Monteverdi, but…