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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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…
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Bedrich Smetana wrote Ma Vlast drawing inspiration from the history, legends and countryside of Bohemia. Smetana has since been regarded as the father of…
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17th Century German poet Heinrich Albert had a hut covered in squash foliage in his garden. It became a hub for German literature of the time, as poets…
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The new music director and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Kirill Petrenko, the seventh in the orchestra's venerable history, has promised…
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The parody of Jacques Offenbach takes center stage on the 12/9 broadcast.12/2 Beethoven: Twelve Variations for piano and violin from The Marriage of…
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The Deutsche Welle Festival concerts return to Classical 91.5 in November, taking us to the Schwetzingen Festival, the Schumannfest, and we'll enjoy the…
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Celebrating its centennial next summer, the Salzburg Festival has been chosen Festival of the Year for the 2020 Musical America International Directory of…