Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt performs Elgar's Cello Concerto alongside the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Sanderling. This concert at the Forum Casals concludes the 2025 edition of the Kronberg Festival.
Fazıl Say concludes the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival at the Elbphilharmonie with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Carlo Tenan. The programme for this eclectic evening includes works by Gershwin, Ravel and Tüzün, as well as Turkish pianist Fazıl Say's Sixth Symphony, composed in 2022 under the title A Hundred-Year-Old Child.
Arvo Pärt has succeeded in using musical means to plant the spirituality of Eastern Europe in Western musical consciousness and make modern classical music accessible to a wide audience. He turned 90 on 11 September 2025.
Violinist Midori performs Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor alongside the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Michael Sanderling. The 2025 Kronberg Festival concludes with this concert in the intimate setting of the Forum Casals.
Warm vibrato, traditional throat singing, body percussion, a thirst for experimentation: Abel Selaocoe is breathing new life into the world of classical music. The cellist is performing this summer at the Rheingau Music Festival in a program entitled “African Roots,” featuring his own compositions and a score by Giovanni Sollima.
In their concert Terra Mater, leading figures on the early music scene Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata celebrate Mother Nature with Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman. Vocal and instrumental art intertwine with delight until they merge, evoking not only the exuberance of Baroque nature, but also its fragility. A conceptual concert rich in associations.
The inaugural season of Tobias Kratzer and Omer Meir Wellber's partnership at the Hamburg State Opera kicks off. The director and conductor present Schumann's rarely performed oratorio Paradise and the Peri. The Peri's quest for redemption, brilliantly interpreted by Vera-Lotte Boecker, illustrates many of today's issues, such as the need for empathy in a world shaken by crises.
Soprano Julia Lezhneva and countertenor Franco Fagioli present an exceptional evening. The programme features arias and duets by the great masters of the Baroque: Purcell, Corelli, Handel, Graun and Porpora, Haydn and Farinelli's Italian master, but also Handel's great rival. Passionate arias, high-pitched vocalises, virtuosity and sonic exuberance: A real treat!
In the inspiring setting of a deconsecrated Parisian church, iconic experimental artist Laurie Anderson performs a new private concert. A timeless, spellbinding and elegant interlude.
The Vienna State Opera celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Second Austrian Republic in the Burggarten gardens and offers a preview of the 2025–2026 season. The programme features the prestigious voices of Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann and Benjamin Bernheim, among others, with the Opera Orchestra conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
For ARTE Concert's Piano Day, Christian Löffler and Meredi combine their talents for the first time in a live setting. An exclusive collaboration unveiled on the LAB stage in Nantes.
A graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston and winner of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Award, this 29-year-old Colombian has so far had a flawless career. On his instrumental album Selah, the singer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist celebrates his spiritual attachment to music and blends jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern music.
In the basement of the Academy of Fine Arts building in Warsaw, a club-restaurant called "Eufemia" is being created. The place begins to gather young people with artistic ambitions, becoming the center of their lives. It quickly gains a reputation as a unique spot on the artistic map of the entire country. That is until it has to be closed... Then the regulars of "Eufemia" begin to collide with the reality that exists outside this safe haven. Through depicting two parallel time frames, the film shows the protagonists both during their time spent in Eufemia and several years later - in completely different places, with different dreams, and under entirely different life circumstances.
For 26 years now, this group of young musicians from all over the European Union has been delighting audiences at the Young Euro Classic festival. It's a project that illustrates the vitality of our continent's musical life. In the first half of the evening, Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández performs Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1.
Countertenor Carlo Vistoli takes us on a musical journey through 17th-century Italy. The nascent opera genre was producing its first masterpieces at the time, with composers such as Monteverdi, Cesti, Cavalli and Stradella. These genius composers laid the foundations for opera and helped establish it as a major art form. The programme includes arias, love laments and scenes of madness.
The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Joana Mallwitz, opens the 2025–2026 season with Maurice Ravel's hypnotic Boléro. This will be followed by Bryce Dessner's Piano Concerto, inspired and performed by pianist Alice Sara Ott. Also on the programme: Anna Meredith's Nautilus, a work brimming with energy, and Ludwig van Beethoven's First Symphony.
Founded in 2012 out of the Tomorrow's Warriors programme, London quintet the Ezra Collective are now key players on the British music scene. Blending jazz, hip-hop, dub and reggae, the music of this British band is filled with eclecticism and innovation.
In a career spanning more than twenty years, Dobet Gnahoré's timeless pan-African music has won numerous awards. This recognition and her legendary choreography has made her the queen of Afro-pop and a powerful icon who embodies her native continent on the international stage.
The name Tarta Relena conjures up images of a traditional Catalan pastry. In concert, their sensual, crystal-clear voices oscillate effortlessly between futuristic sounds and traditional Catalan harmonies; a refined experimental music that has the flavour of a mystical experience.