Artikel von Mark Pullinger

Forget powerhouse “hojotohos” and sandblasting brass. Elīna Garanča and Christian Thielemann offered more intimate portraits of these composers at the Großes Festspielhaus.

“Go big or go home” could easily have been the motto of this summer’s festival. Muti didn’t just go big. He went huge. 

In a pandemic era of chamber reductions, the joy in this Mahler 6 was hearing an orchestra of 108 musicians let off the leash. 

It's difficult to believe Salzburg could have cast a finer Così in Loy's Covid-reduced production in the Großes Festspielhaus.

The percussion department of the Orchestre National de France took their turn in the spotlight for Rodion Shchedrin's ballet. 

Simon Rattle continues his European travels, returning to the Philharmonie im Gasteig for a fine programme with the outstanding Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

While Kalle Randalu proves an amiable soloist in the First Piano Concerto, it is Beethoven the firebrand who startles in Paavo Järvi's account of the First Symphony with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.

How do you envisage spending your 93rd birthday? Herbert Blomstedt joined the Bamberg Symphony for a programme of Honegger and Brahms. 

Not only was this the first time that Klaus Mäkelä had conducted the Orchestre de Paris since his appointment as Music Director Designate, it was the first time audiences returned to the Philharmonie. 

The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani are joined by special guests for an evening of Schubert quintets in Évian-les-Bains. 

After its Covid-19 “Quarantine soirées”, the Budapest Festival Orchestra celebrates the end of lockdown by taking on a two-concert international tour!

Martha Argerich hadn't played Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in public for at least 25 years... so this performance at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg came as a huge surprise.

A high-spirited programme in Tivoli Vredenburg that struck just the right note of hope and renewal as the classical music scene across Europe reawakens.

Two Michaels – Collins and McHale – provided the musical nourishment in today’s lunchtime recital from Wigmore Hall, a feast of classic clarinet sonatas.

Live music-making returns to the UK as Stephen Hough performs Bach and Schumann in a streamed lunchtime recital

For 1st April – or indeed any day of the year – some classical music in a playlist to raise a smile or two. 

Tanzen und frohlocken Sie mit uns in den Frühling.

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation und geschlossenen Konzert- und Opernhäusern, haben wir die Crème de la Crème an Streams für Sie gesucht, die Sie zuhause genießen können.

Directed by Gerard McBurney, this concert recreated the marathon Akademie conducted by Beethoven in Vienna which saw the premieres of four major works. 

In its 25th anniversary season, Richard Eyre's production continues to attract the world's great sopranos to the role of Violetta, the latest being Aleksandra Kurzak.