»Grand Vibe Station«

Shanghai Grand Theatre

The London Philharmonic Orchestra perform at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.Conductor Paavo Järvi presents a powerful programme featuring works by Weber, Haydn and Tchaikovsky. Julia Hagen takes centre stage for a dazzling performance of Haydn’s First Cello Concerto.

Grand soir Edgard Varèse

Each season, soloists from Ensemble Intercontemporain work with Paris Conservatory students on a major symphonic project. This year, they present a portrait of one of the great rebels of 20th-century music, Edgard Varèse.

Freiburger Barockorchester: Grand Tour

The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra celebrates 25 years of concerts in Stuttgart and Berlin with a program featuring 18th-century composers encountered along the route. From Rastatt (Fischer) to Stuttgart (Pez), Ansbach (Kusser), Meiningen (J.L. Bach), and finally Eisenach/Berlin (J.S. Bach & Telemann), the concert showcases the diverse regional influences, from Lully in the southwest to Italian styles in central Germany, culminating in the individual styles of Bach and Telemann in the northeast. A free introductory lecture takes place at 7:15 pm in the Rolf-Böhme-Saal.

Autour du Petit grand festival

Guest at Grand Théâtre de Provence

»And the soul, unguarded, wants to soar in free flights, to live within the magic circle of the night deeply and a thousandfold.« These dream-lorn lines by Hermann Hesse inspired Richard Strauss to write one of his moving »Four Last Songs«. These depict a life cycle and bear witness to his confrontation with his own death. At 83, the aged composer looked back on his triumphant life »weary of wandering«. When a journalist asked him about his next projects, Strauss answered with a wink: »Well, just die!« But his son persuaded him to compose another »major work«, saying, »Dad, stop brooding, write some beautiful songs instead.« And Strauss succeeded in a beguiling way, for the highly romantic settings hover in an inimitable atmosphere of weightlessness. With us, the voice of Hanna-Elisabeth Müller soars to these soulful songs. Christoph Eschenbach then leads us through a work by Bruckner that was first performed in 1873 and was composed as a direct expression of a deep life crisis due to the so-called »St. Anna affair«: as he was hardly noticed as a composer in Vienna at that time, he gave piano lessons at the St. Anna educational institution – and once confidentially called one of his pupils »my darling«. Even though Bruckner felt wrongly suspected, the newspapers made a scandal out of this event. He was soon rehabilitated, but wrote his second symphony in this humiliated state of mind – which therefore has a restless, pessimistic underlying mood: it fluctuates between heartfelt prayers, desperate outbursts, clueless silences and wild dance scenes.

Summer in Lesmona – Grand Orchestra Concert

Grand Chinese New Year Concert 2025

The traditional Chinese New Year concert unites cultures, brings symphonic masterpieces of classical Chinese music to the stage and opens up new musical horizons. Every year for more than 25 years, first-class traditional Chinese orchestras have performed in leading concert halls during the Chinese Spring Festival, offering a rich blend of China’s diverse musical cultures.

JazzKLUB / Product May Contain / Jazz Personalities with Grand Prix

Trance-like, ambient, ambiguous, with references to ethnic culture and excursions into folk music – this is what chamber jazz sounds like as interpreted by the youngest generation of musicians. The Product May Contain trio triumphed at last year's Jazz on the Oder, winning, among others, the Grand Prix in the Wojtek Siwek Jazz Individuality competition. These are well-deserved laurels for exploring new artistic spaces and searching for beauty with acoustic overtones, for interaction, sonic symbiosis and freshness, with echoes of modern jazz straight out of Komeda's Sextet. It also proves that a compromise between novelty and respect for tradition is still possible in art. Maria Wilczek-KrupaConcert duration: approximately 90 minutes