Samara Joy McLendon © AB+DM
At the age of 25, Samara Joy is already one of the greatest jazz voices of our time. She has now won three Grammys, her debut album topped the charts and her performances have caused a sensation...
Klaus Mäkelä © Marco Borrgreve
»... you have hardly heard anything more haunting and at the same time more exquisite than this«, according to a review of Janine Jansen's recording of Sergei Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto.
Klaus Mäkelä © Mathias Benguigui - Pasco&Co
October marks the 100th anniversary of Luciano Berio's birth. In his work, the composer processed, quoted and adapted compositions by others as well as his own.
Sir John Elliot Gardiner © Hans van der Woerd
Nocturnal scenes full of spooks, magic and witchcraft rituals: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy set them to music in a painterly way.
Lukas Sternath © Thomas Rabsch
»The child, namely America, was not grown up enough for new music«, said Sergei Prokofiev in 1921 after the failure of his third piano concerto following its premiere in Chicago. Today, the...
Fabio Luisi © Sylvia Elzafon
We know it from early Christian mosaics, medieval illuminations, Romanesque portals, Dürer's woodcuts or the film »The Seventh Seal« by Ingmar Bergmann.
Mnozil Brass © Maria Frodl
The masters of Mnozil Brass have known for ages that the waltz-drunk »Duidu, Duidu« and its relaxed counterpart »Dudidubidu« are really only a stone's throw away from each other.