Pretty much every recording by Mariss Jansons is impactful: here on Classical Explorer, we have covered him in Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and Sixth Symphony. This multi-composer […]
The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family. Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding […]
Tucked away in the rural quiet of northern Germany, Detect Classic Festival has, over the past few years, established itself as one of the most distinctive events on the European classical music scene. Set against […]