Bruce Liu plays Rachmaninow
The Kurhaus Wiesbaden, a crown jewel among the festival buildings of historicism, is a venue for the Rheingau Music Festival. Here, the pianist Bruce Liu can be experienced with a top-class programme. The focus of the programme is Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto. Instrumentation:Bruce Liu, pianoGianandrea Noseda, conductorL’Orchestradell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Programme:Ottorino Respighi, Burlesca […]
1923 – Musik im Aufbruch
Together with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the young, upcoming conductor Erina Yashima takes a journey back in time through the year 1923. Using five key works from the 1920s, she fans out the musical, but also historical context of the time. 1923: While crises shake Germany and Europe, the age of German radio begins […]
Asya Fateyeva and the Saxophone
“What lot there is to do with the saxophone!” – that amazes Asya Fateyeva anew every day. With her enthusiasm, the classically trained saxophonist opens the door to the most diverse musical styles and epochs. From solo instrument to chamber music, from classical repertoire to modern, from renaissance to baroque music: with Asya Fateyeva, this […]
Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer
Master film maker, auteur, poet, truth seeker, pith helmeted explorer, brand, meme, actor, lauded voice artiste, doomsayer, legend…Werner Herzog. The man who had a 320-ton steamboat hauled over a steep hill in Peru, who hypnotizes his actors, climbs down into volcanoes, talks to murderers on death row, cooks and eats his own shoe and was […]
Music under the Swastika – The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
For the first time, the documentary tells the story of classical music in the “Third Reich” from an overall perspective. The focus is on the fates of two protagonists: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survives as a cellist in Auschwitz, while the famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler tries in vain to preserve his integrity […]
Cuban Dances – A Musical Road Trip with Sarah Willis
After the brilliant success of her “Mozart y Mambo” project, Sarah Willis is returning to Cuba. This time the Berlin Philharmonic hornist sets out together with the “Havana Lyceum Orchestra” on a musical road trip to showcase the traditional Cuban music, bringing viewers and listeners into even more intense and lively contact with its roots […]
