Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev divides his time between the symphonic and lyric repertoire, guest conducting the most prestigious orchestras around the world. He enjoys close and privileged relationships with orchestras such as the…
‘It is like driving a pair of BMWs’, remarked conductor Michael Schønwandt, after directing the Dutch brothers Lucas (28) and Arthur Jussen (24). Despite their young age, they have been part of the international concert world for years and are…
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born in 1809 as the son of a banker and grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, whipped up a storm of enthusiasm, when only 17, with his incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With a performance…
The title of this concert overture refers to travel impressions to which the work owes its title. When he was 20, Mendelssohn visited Fingals Cave on one of the Scottish Hebrides Islands. This overture was created as a tone painting, which, not…
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
"The Fourth Symphony arose from my very being and was written with true inspiration, with love and glowing enthusiasm, from beginning to end. There is not one stroke in it that does not stem from my sincerest emotions" wrote Pyotr Ilyitch…
Internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev divides his time between the symphonic and lyric repertoire, guest conducting the most prestigious orchestras around the world. He enjoys close and privileged relationships with orchestras such as the…
‘It is like driving a pair of BMWs’, remarked conductor Michael Schønwandt, after directing the Dutch brothers Lucas (28) and Arthur Jussen (24). Despite their young age, they have been part of the international concert world for years and are…
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born in 1809 as the son of a banker and grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, whipped up a storm of enthusiasm, when only 17, with his incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. With a performance…
The title of this concert overture refers to travel impressions to which the work owes its title. When he was 20, Mendelssohn visited Fingals Cave on one of the Scottish Hebrides Islands. This overture was created as a tone painting, which, not…
"I consider you the greatest musical talent in present-day Russia", Russian music critic Hermann Laroche is said to have told Peter I. Tschaikowsky (born on April 25th 1840 in Votkinsk). And indeed, with his emotion-laden, voluptuous music, the…
"The Fourth Symphony arose from my very being and was written with true inspiration, with love and glowing enthusiasm, from beginning to end. There is not one stroke in it that does not stem from my sincerest emotions" wrote Pyotr Ilyitch…
Die Sopranistin und Dirigentin Barbara Hannigan verkörpert Musik mit einer unvergleichlichen dramatischen Sensibilität und ist eine Künstlerin und kreative Vorreiterin. Mehr als 30 Jahre nach ihrem professionellen Debüt hatte Hannigan die Ehre, für…
