At the 2026 Tsinandali Festival, Marc-André Hamelin reflects on harmony, the power of pure sound, and the human touch in performance, while sharing his thoughts on composition, pianistic perfection, and…
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She ordered his pianos, kept his accounts, and padded his doors against the noise of her own house. While Chopin composed upstairs at Nohant, George Sand was writing the great…
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Classical music has long offered an imaginative way to guide young listeners as they take their first steps into the world of the orchestra. Ahead of the new school year,…
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From phone calls to concerts halls, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons are inescapable. Beat the summer heat with a deep dive into this Baroque…
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From Bach’s church contract to Mozart and Beethoven’s unstable incomes, classical music has long balanced genius with financial precarity. The freelance musician, it turns out, was born alongside the modern…
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At Versailles, music was more than entertainment. Under Louis XIV, it helped define French Baroque style while serving the court’s larger purpose: to glorify the monarch.
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What makes Wagner’s 16-hour saga so immersive, coherent, and psychologically satisfying? The Leitmotif… This web of recurring musical ideas gives The Ring its elemental force, narrative depth, and extraordinary emotional…
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On the 150th anniversary of The Ring’s premiere, Jack Pepper revisits Wagner as revolutionary, dramatist and master of excess. A vivid portrait of the composer whose monumental vision transformed opera forever.
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Christopher Nolan’s epic film The Odyssey has made Greek mythology one of the hottest topics of the summer. Listen to the most epic of…
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A pianist improvises unexpectedly, a sound engineer questions what’s happening, and a music consultant realizes what’s going on within seconds. In the medici.tv control room in Verbier, every concert is…
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September 7: This week in classical music
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At the Salzburg Festival, tradition and reinvention are inseparable. From Mozart and Richard Strauss to today’s star conductors, singers and directors, James Jolly explores why this singular gathering remains the…
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August 17: This week in classical music
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August 10: This week in classical music
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July 27: This week in classical music
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July 20: This week in classical music
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July 13: This week in classical music
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At 99, Herbert Blomstedt is still showing the musical world how it’s done — with clarity, humility and an authority that never needs to raise its voice. James Jolly explores…
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July 6: This week in classical music
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At the 2026 Tsinandali Festival, Marc-André Hamelin reflects on harmony, the power of pure sound, and the human touch in performance, while sharing his thoughts on composition, pianistic perfection, and…
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At Verbier, Gábor Takács-Nagy reflects on his fondest memories from the festival, his relationship with the orchestra from rehearsals to the stage, and the importance of conducting with…
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For Mao Fujita, music says what words cannot. At Verbier, he speaks about memory, form, practice, exhaustion and the importance of making space to concentrate fully on music.
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At Verbier, violinist Daniel Lozakovich reflects on the power of collaboration, the music that shaped him, and the sense of wonder that great teachers awaken. From Tchaikovsky and…
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From sunset in Verbier to the intimacy of Brahms, Timothy Chooi shares a personal view of performance, audience connection and the non-musical experiences that have shaped his artistic philosophy.
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Over the years, Lucas Debargue has become a regular guest at the Verbier Festival, returning each time with ambitious projects. This summer, he has been entrusted with one of the…
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At the 2026 Rencontres Musicales d’Évian, Denis Kozhukhin reflects on Brahms, the mystery of performance, and the performer’s task: to bring the score to life while allowing the…
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From its iconic clarinet opening to its full-orchestra surges, Rhapsody in Blue remains a thrilling feat of musical imagination. Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang bring Gershwin’s restless, exuberant vision to life with…
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Since it was recorded in 1959, “All Blues” from Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue has been reinterpreted countless times by jazz and funk musicians…
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Before summer fully arrives, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 invites us into its dreamlike world—an intimate, nostalgic love letter to warm evenings, family, and memory.
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A must-see portrait of Natalia Osipova, an artist whose virtuosity and emotional intensity transcend ballet’s boundaries.
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Barrie Kosky reinvents Die Fledermaus in a vibrant, ironic staging where humor and spectacle meet a subtle undercurrent of melancholy, revealing new emotional depth beneath Strauss’s…
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Our social media team spends their days tracking trends in the classical music world. Here’s their curated list of the top accounts to follow if you live and…
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In anticipation of the Oscars this Sunday, take a look at this fantastic movie music program that just joined our catalogue, in which the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra…
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Through breathtaking improvisations and her vibrant Piano Concerto, the Venezuelan pianist-composer dazzles with a powerfully personal display of Latin-American pride and staggering virtuosity.
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