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Fingers and bows fluttered through dance-like figures and virtuosic passages packed with trills with astonishing clarity and brilliance.

Not everything worked in Gilbert's Beethoven Nine, but the stunning finale redeemed all.

Marino Formenti only briefly introduced his eclectic whirlwind recital, “Liszt Inspections”, before calling out “Good luck!” and diving into one of the most attention-grabbing sequences of music that I’ve ever witnessed.

The Percussive Planet Ensemble was founded seven years ago, when the then 22-year-old Martin Grubinger first performed his Percussive Planet (twelve percussion pieces from around the world) at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

The Klangforum Wien is such a disciplined ensemble that for them ever to be remotely fazed or challenged by a piece, even those works with Ferneyhough-like unfulfillable demands, is scarcely imaginable.

Jochen Schmeckenbecher und das ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien unter der Leitung von Cornelius Meister gratulieren Friedrich Cerha musikalisch zum 90. Geburtstag.

Die Amsterdam Sinfonietta überzeugt im Wiener Konzerthaus mit einem anregenden Programm im Zeichen der Moderne.