Mythos Davos: gifted young artists featured at the Davos Festival

The wide-ranging programme, titled "Glitter and Be Gay!", highlights the work of two composers who were open about their sexual orientations at a time when few contemporaries came out.

Dans un programme qui pouvait faire craindre le pire de la part d'un artiste présenté comme un pianiste de concours, le jeune Allemand s'est révélé un véritable sorcier doublé d'un musicien cultivé.

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin deliver a lean, razor-sharp exploration of captivity and survival, balancing Beethoven’s and Brahms’ structural clarity against the devastating, high-fidelity distortion of Henze’s Ninth Symphony.

French clarinettist Raphaël Sévère unearths beauty in Nielsen's concerto and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta impress in two settings of Pan's antics at the French May Festival.

The premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony no. 5 is postponed, substituted by selections from his Jungle Symphony, along with a disappointing Beethoven’s Seventh at Carnegie Hall. 

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber survey composers from Beethoven to Berg in a varied and deeply moving recital.