Work: Das Rosenband, Op.36 no.1

Christian Thielemann shows his lighter side, while the Berlin Philharmonic play music they haven't touched in nearly a century.

Almost every June from 1989 to 1999, I visited the charming town of Feldkirch, in the Vorarlberg region of Western Austria, for the annual Schubertiade, originally founded in 1976 by the great German baritone Hermann Prey.

A majestic Mahler 4 from the Philharmonia under Lahav Shani, crowned by Chen Reiss’ wide-eyed rendition of Das himmlische Leben.