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François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich Orchestra tear up the traditional concert programme to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. 

Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s music was the starting point for this year’s Ultraschall Festival, marking what would have been his 100th birthday.

Thomas Hengelbrock and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra open Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert-hall with a traversal of music through the ages, from a Renaissance motet to Wolfgang Rihm's latest work.

It isn’t often that the Musikverein programmes Webern, the most underperformed of Vienna’s major musical sons, alongside a Liebestod from Bayreuth’s reigning Isolde, but then this was no ordinary Musikverein concert.

Das Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin bringt beim Musikfest Berlin die Philharmonie mit Zimmermann und Wagner zum Leuchten.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, NDR Chor und der Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks brillieren unter Hengelbrock mit Mendelssohns Lobgesang in der frisch eröffneten Hamburger Elbphilharmonie.