The concert prepared by Jakub Hruša and the world-famous pianist Daniil Trifonov starts with Scriabin’s brilliant Piano Concerto. For the second half of the concert they perform Josef Suk’s iconic Asrael Symphony. “In the case of the Piano Concerto…

Located between the sea and the mountains, right in the centre of the city of Barcelona, stands the Sagrada Família. It has been an emblematic building from the very beginning; an expiatory temple created by thousands of people and the work of…

The Verbier Festival Orchestra, under the baton of one of the greatest Mahlerians of our time, Michael Tilson Thomas, perform the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, an ode to nature. This concert, the climax of the 2016 Verbier Festival…

Hungarian pianist András Schiff, one of the titans in the contemporary piano scene, returns as both soloist and conductor to Verbier, performing music by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The programme culminates in Beethoven’s masterpiece…

After a long absence from the stage, violin legend Kyung Wha Chung made a sensational return to the concert stage, when opening the 2016 Verbier Festival with a powerful performance of Brahms‘ Violin Concerto in D Major, one of the crowns of the…

The orchestra performs in Prague for the very first time. "Under the direction of its conductor and founder François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles is one of the most remarkable and progressive ensembles today," says Josef Třeštík, director of programming…

The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra has been keen to pay tribute to Prince Albert I – whose year 2022 marks the centenary of his disappearance – through a series of concerts entitled “Commémoration Albert Ier”. In order to celebrate the event as…

Live from the Summer Festival Baden-Baden 2022. Hidden behind Schumann's Piano Concerto is a love story. The work’s main melody represents Schumann's wife Clara. And quite literally: in the Schumann home, Clara was called "Chiara" in Italian. If we…

Humour us by answering the following question: how many Black classical performers do you know off the top of your head? The Chineke! Foundation is trying to break through the privilege gap leading to this lop-sidedness: since 2015 the British…

Even in the fall of 2021, when we began planning our festival programme, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine was part of our plans. When the war broke out, the Festival’s leadership and the orchestra jointly decided to reserve this evening for…