Germany has more symphony orchestras and music festivals than the rest of Europe combined. There are those festivals that take place in the cities where the composers were born or worked and thus stake a special claim to authenticity: the Handel Festival in Halle, the Bach Festival in Leipzig and of course the Beethoven Festival in Bonn. Others capitalize on the beautiful surroundings or special atmosphere, like Heidelberg Spring and Tensions in Heimbach. But whatever the backdrop, the performances are all of electrifying artistry and the recordings of superb "made in Germany" quality. Rick Fulker loves nothing more than sharing the wealth, which includes the artists' own voices.
This season we’ll hear from the Schwetzingen Festival, Schumannfest, Weinberg, Bachfest Leipzig, Mozart in Wuerzburg, a Petrenko Premiere, the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, Beethoven Week and much more.
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Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv is one of her country's most famous cultural emissaries. Recognized internationally as a leading cultural representative of her homeland, Ukraine, in 2021 she became the first female to conduct at the renowned Bayreuth Festival. -
Beethoven's Rondo a capriccio, Rage Over a Lost Penny is one of his most dramatic piano compositions that is thrilling and enjoyable to listen to and to play! We'll hear it Dec 20th at 8pm
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The Rheingau Music Festival welcomes the return of full choirs and orchestras after two years, with a musical fairy tale by Dvorak and a choral symphony by Mendelssohn symbolize hope for Ukraine. (11/29)
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Soft-spoken, 34-year old British conductor Robin Ticciati is the new chief conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, with plans to shake up his new…
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From the Berlin Music Festival, Deutsche Welle takes us next to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for the audience-free, live-streamed season opener…
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We'll hear an evening of salon music and the transcendental and unearthly sounds of Gregorian chant, as the Early Music in Knechtsteden festival fills a…
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We've all heard the saying that creativity is the father of invention, and 2020 bore this out when the Young Euro Classic re-invented itself from a youth…
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Early on in the pandemic, the mighty Berlin Philharmonic went ahead with a concert it had scheduled before the coronavirus outbreak - a livestreamed…
