Elbphilharmonie (Kleiner Saal)

What do balls, wheels and balloons have in common? They are all round, and they can all easily be converted into musical instruments! In »BALLads«, even the music revolves on its own axis:…

What do balls, wheels and balloons have in common? They are all round, and they can all easily be converted into musical instruments! In »BALLads«, even the music revolves on its own axis:…

Wolfgang Muthspiel is one of the most influential jazz guitarists of our time. In the 1980s, the man with the soft guitar sound and impeccable plucking technique left his Austrian homeland for the…

6th Philharmonic Concert

Finally back as guests of the Kammermusikfreunde: the young »iconoclasts« play Mozart’s first »Prussian« quartet and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 entirely…

»You can’t just call that talent – she’s simply a genius.« With these words, Herbert von Karajan once knighted Anne-Sophie Mutter and nearly 50 years later, time has…

What a concert evening! It opens with Beethoven’s magnificent Prometheus Overture, dedicated to the titan who gave fire to mankind and thus sparked the dawn of civilisation. As the finale:…

»I write my own South Sami lyrics and songs because there is no South Sami music that I could listen as a child,« says young singer Marja Mortensson, who was born into a family of reindeer…

What do the home countries of all the guest artists and composers in this concert have in common? Denmark, Russia, Sweden and Estonia all border the Baltic Sea – a region with a legendary wealth…

She produces sounds that come from deep inside the throat: Inuk Tanya Tagaq. »Katajjaq« is the name of this centuries-old, traditional throat singing of the Inuit, which forms part of…