Elbphilharmonie (Großer Saal)

Welcome to Blind Date! Here, anything is possible: groovy folk fiddle music, crossover string quartets, virtuosic live piano improvisation combining jazz and classical music. The imagination is…

Accordion star Martynas Levickis travels all the way across the Atlantic and back to Europe again. He is connected to Philip Glass and Aaron Copland through shared Lithuanian roots and to George…

With no other composer is the mazurka so closely associated as with Frédéric Chopin. At the age of 15, he wrote his first mazurka; almost 60 more were to follow in the course of his…

Cheerful, lively, dance-like – in hardly any other work does Ludwig van Beethoven appear as exuberant as in his Symphony No. 7. It sparkles, for no particular reason, with surprising ideas,…

Parents with babies up to one year old and expectant mothers can make themselves comfortable on round baby blankets, and listen to the string sounds of Ensemble Resonanz. Familiar melodies invite the…

Parents with babies up to one year old and expectant mothers can make themselves comfortable on round baby blankets, and listen to the string sounds of Ensemble Resonanz. Familiar melodies invite the…

Amaro Freitas describes himself in an interview as a »percussion pianist« and he actually gets drum qualities out of the piano in his shimmering Brazilian jazz compositions. And yet so…

The unique Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra has been continuing the artistic legacy of the Wiener Strauss-Kapelle since 1966, after the latter was disbanded by Eduard Strauss I in New York in 1901…

Bohuslav Martinů was a Moravian composer whose life and work naturally spanned across his Czech homeland, Europe, and America. He was one of the few Czech creators to achieve prominence on a…

Jean Sibelius titled one of his many symphonic poems »The Bard«. What exactly the piece is about remains unclear, except that it centres on a wandering poet and singer, a figure familiar…