The 2025 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra summer tour with Daniel Barenboim and Lang Lang kicked off yesterday with a sold-out performance at the Musikfest Bremen.
The tour continues today with the annual performance at the Waldbühne in Berlin, featuring Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven.
Janine Jansen & Friends Here’s a stunning live performance of Schubert’s Octet in F Maj D.803, from violinist Janine Jansen and her friends at the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival. It’s so good, I watched […]
This is exactly the sort of discovery that first got me “into” Classical music. Perhaps I’d find an obscure composer on a Turnabout LP (Koželuch sings to mind on one occasion), and the search for […]
Founded in 1963 by Jacint Vilardell to commemorate the Catalan tenor Francisco Viñas, the Competition (Concurso Tenor Viñas) has become one of the major contests in the Opera, Oratorio and Lied world, in which young […]