Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Claude Debussy, born on August 22nd 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, was first a glowing admirer of Richard Wagner, but soon turned away from the German musical tradition to develop a French national musical idiom. The style he arrived at was called…
Not until I heard "L'Après-midi d’un Faune" for the first time did I know what music really is. No less an authority than Maurice Ravel was the one who used these words to express his boundless admiration for the work of his friend and colleague…
With his symphonies, operas, concerti and chamber music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg) is today the most-performed composer of all times. While still a child, he was already an international celebrity: trotted out by…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Come, darling May, and color the leaves green again. The precursor of this song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, entitled Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling (Longing for Spring), and written in 1791, the year of the composer´s death, was the theme of the…
Arnold Schönberg was one of the most important musical personalities of the previous century. Starting out with a final surge of the late romantic music, he took a radical step away from what was then regarded as the crisis of tonality with his move…
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
In quest of an operatic subject Arnold Schönberg was advised to have a look at Maurice Maeterlinck´s drama "Pelléas et Mélisande". Schönberg was thrilled, but the subject did not inspire him to an opera but rather to a symphonic poem. "Completely…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Claude Debussy, born on August 22nd 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, was first a glowing admirer of Richard Wagner, but soon turned away from the German musical tradition to develop a French national musical idiom. The style he arrived at was called…
Not until I heard "L'Après-midi d’un Faune" for the first time did I know what music really is. No less an authority than Maurice Ravel was the one who used these words to express his boundless admiration for the work of his friend and colleague…
With his symphonies, operas, concerti and chamber music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg) is today the most-performed composer of all times. While still a child, he was already an international celebrity: trotted out by…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Come, darling May, and color the leaves green again. The precursor of this song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, entitled Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling (Longing for Spring), and written in 1791, the year of the composer´s death, was the theme of the…
Arnold Schönberg was one of the most important musical personalities of the previous century. Starting out with a final surge of the late romantic music, he took a radical step away from what was then regarded as the crisis of tonality with his move…
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
In quest of an operatic subject Arnold Schönberg was advised to have a look at Maurice Maeterlinck´s drama "Pelléas et Mélisande". Schönberg was thrilled, but the subject did not inspire him to an opera but rather to a symphonic poem. "Completely…
Der finnische Dirigent Tarmo Peltokoski wird ab der Saison 2026/27 Musikdirektor des Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, nachdem er 2025/26 als designate Music Director tätig war. Im Januar 2022 wurde er von der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen zum…
Der usbekische Pianist Behzod Abduraimov begeistert weltweit mit seiner erstaunlichen Technik und seinem rhapsodischen Flair. In der laufenden Saison steht er vor einer Reihe bemerkenswerter Debüts, darunter mit dem New York Philharmonic und dem…
Alain Altinoglu ist Directeur Musical des Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brüssel und Chefdirigent des hr-Sinfonieorchesters Frankfurt sowie künstlerischer Leiter des Festival International de Colmar. Sein Engagement beim hr-Sinfonieorchester…
Geboren im Jahr 2000 in Tbilisi, Georgien, erlernte Giorgi Gigashvili das Klavierspiel ohne je an eine professionelle Karriere als Pianist zu denken. Seine Leidenschaft galt vielmehr dem Singen und Arrangieren von georgischen Volksliedern und…
Alain Altinoglu ist Directeur Musical des Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brüssel und Chefdirigent des hr-Sinfonieorchesters Frankfurt sowie künstlerischer Leiter des Festival International de Colmar. Sein Engagement beim hr-Sinfonieorchester…
Geboren im Jahr 2000 in Tbilisi, Georgien, erlernte Giorgi Gigashvili das Klavierspiel ohne je an eine professionelle Karriere als Pianist zu denken. Seine Leidenschaft galt vielmehr dem Singen und Arrangieren von georgischen Volksliedern und…
Geboren im Jahr 2000 in Tbilisi, Georgien, erlernte Giorgi Gigashvili das Klavierspiel ohne je an eine professionelle Karriere als Pianist zu denken. Seine Leidenschaft galt vielmehr dem Singen und Arrangieren von georgischen Volksliedern und…
