Released on June 30, 2023 the colorful Deutsche Grammophon double Audio CD album Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3;...

On July 15, 2023 the bandoneon player Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (*1980) entertained concert goers at the Centro Congressos da Madeira in Funchal in the great season finale, accompanied by...

On June 17, 2023 at the invitation of Norberto Gomes, Artistic Director of the Madeira Classical Orchestra, Christoph Poppen...

The world needs new classical music compositions in order to renew the genre. The Artistic Director of Madeira Classic Orchestra,...

Since 1998 the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira has been performing the island’s Flower Festival Concert. The 2023 edition on...

Born in Erlangen in 1965, Albrecht Mayer is not only the principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic but, as he told me in...

The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons — 2006 biography — is the chief conductor of both the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and...

Founded in 1926 as the Latvian Radio Centre Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) is one of the greatest...

I’ve only heard the conductor Kirill Petrenko live once. It was August 24, 2019. He was conducting the Berliner...

Instant time travel? Yes, that’s possible! Listen to Georg Friedrich Händel’s (aka Handel) Agrippina and, with the...

For me, the best classical music recording of the past two years is Daniil Trifonov’s Destination Rachmaninov — ...

The career of my favorite (classical music) singer Philippe Jaroussky is already spanning twenty years. The French countertenor...

In 2003, I first heard Christian Thielemann live conducting Wagner during his term as Generalmusikdirektor at Deutsche Oper...

Since his first days as a conductor, Sir Simon Rattle has been a Sibelius fan. In December 2014 and February 2015, celebrating...

The British cellist Jacqueline “Jackie” du Pré (* Oxford, January 26, 1945; † London, October 19, 1987) remains in the hearts of classical music lovers around the globe, not just...

Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja chose the title “intuitive pilgrimage” to describe her 70th anniversary box-set. It consists of...

Her warm, sometimes emotional and virtuoso sound, together with her unpretentious attitude, have won Sol Gabetta admirers around the globe. Biography of the cellist Sol Gabetta In the...

Nicola Benedetti was born on July 19, 1987. She grew up in the small Scottish town West Kilbride. She has a brother and a sister. Both her parents are Italian born, but moved to Scotland as...

Together with the Latvian Elīna Garanča, the Italian Cecilia Bartoli is one of the world’s leading mezzo-sopranos. Cecilia was born in Rome on June 6, 1966. Both her parents,...

Biography of Kristine Opolais For this biography, in December 2006, I interviewed the Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais at...