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Scorpions back for 'once in a lifetime' event
Almost 20 years after their historic appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Scorpions are reprising the event with the Athens State Orchestra. The band’s founder Rudolf Schenker spoke exclusively to Euronews. "It's a very good way...
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Yuja Wang on Rachmaninov: "Every time I play his music it's...a gift!"
A child prodigy, Yuja Wang discovered the piano at the age of six. A year later, she gave her first concert. Now 31, the Chinese musician is one of the most highly-regarded pianists of our time. And at the Doelen concert hall, with the...
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Yuja Wang on Rachmaninov: "Every time I play his music it's... a gift!"
A child prodigy, Yuja Wang discovered the piano at the age of six. A year later, she gave her first concert. Now 31, the Chinese musician is one of the most highly-regarded pianists of our time. And at the Doelen concert hall, with the...
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Classical magic in Malta!
Classical music took centre stage on the Mediterranean island of Malta, at its sixth International Music Festival. Top musicians delighted audiences from 15 April - 1 May, with the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra in residence. Our...
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Dudamel inspires young musicians with passionate workshop
Inspiring young musicians and advocating universal access to music has always been an important mission for Gustavo Dudamel. In Mexico City, he put four days aside from his Latin American tour to mastermind the "Encounters workshop",...
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Uniting cultures: Gustavo Dudamel's Americas tour with the Vienna Philharmonic
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's tour across the Americas has centred around breaking boundaries and uniting cultures. Together with the iconic maestro Gustavo Dudamel, the legendary orchestra embarked on a unique journey across the...
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Pergolesi's Mass in D Major is performed for first time in nearly 300 years
Lost for nearly 300 years - a mass in D Major by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi is proving popular with audiences across Europe after being rediscovered by researchers. In the latest performance the Ghislieri Choir and...
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Violin virtuoso Kyung Wha Chung bewitches Rome with Brahms
She's one of the finest violinists of her generation, South Korea's Kyung Wha Chung performs Brahms' powerful and challenging violin concerto with the one of the world's most-sought after conductors, Sir Antonio Pappano. Dubbed the...
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Violin virtuoso Kyung Wha Chung bewitches with Brahms
She's one of the finest violinists of her generation, South Korea's Kyung Wha Chung performs Brahms' powerful and challenging violin concerto with the one of the world's most-sought after conductors, Sir Antonio Pappano. Dubbed the...
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Valletta International Baroque Festival enters its sixth year
The Valletta International Baroque Festival is in its sixth year and, as ever, has attracted fans from all over Europe in its first week. This year the music has moved beyond the capital spread over 26 events in 14 locations. “We’ve had...
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Vladimir Jurowski and Budapest embrace the genius of George Enescu
The Enescu Festival had a grand opening with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor Vladimir Jurowski performing the opera Œdipe. It was composed by the Romanian composer George Enescu and is based on the Greek mythological...
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Vladimir Jurowski and Bucharest embrace the genius of George Enescu
The Enescu Festival had a grand opening with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor Vladimir Jurowski performing the opera Œdipe. It was composed by the Romanian composer George Enescu and is based on the Greek mythological...
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Salzburg Festival: Modern-Day Mozart
Mozart has never been so modern! In a world of fears and social tensions, a new look has been given to the legendary composer’s opera of reconciliation, La Clemenza di Tito. One highpoint of this year’s Salzburg Festival, the...
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Mozart has never been so modern
This year opera program of the Salzburg Festival starts with Mozart’s last opera La Clemenza di Tito, sung in Italian. La Clemenza di Tito is Mozart’s last opera, and was written in 1791. The new production is directed by Peter Sellars...
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The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra join with the Moscow Soloists in Sochi
Traditional Chinese rhythms filled the Organ hall in the Russian city of Sochi as the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra rehearsed. The orchestra which was a special guest of the Winter International Arts Festival includes 85 musicians, whose...
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Cellist Tina Guo takes video game music into the charts with her album ‘Game On’
Cellist Tina Guo is taking video game music into the charts with her debut album, ‘Game On’. The combination is unique. She showcases some of the most popular and well-known game themes with a classical twist. You have a choice of 14...
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The Hamburg Elbphilarmonie opens its doors with a stunning concert
It overlooks the harbour like a giant ship floating on water, the Hamburg Elbphilarmonie has finally opened its doors to the public. It has a red-brick base, a glass structure on top, curved windows and a roof that resembles the crest of...
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Baroque on the rock – the International Baroque Music Festival in Malta
Baroque on the rock. It is the fifth edition of the International Baroque music festival in Malta The genre started in the 16th century around the same time the first stones were laid in Valletta. The success of the festival is down to...
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An Art Deco sensory feast in 360 degrees
One Friday every month, Lyon’s Arts and Crafts Museum organises a guided tour at noon, focused on a particular piece of artwork and a concert related to the piece. On this occasion the tour shows the painting “Portrait of a Young Woman”...
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Danish Queen designs Nutcracker costumes
It’s a Christmas production of ‘The Nutcracker’ with a difference – in the Danish capital Copenhagen, all the sets and costumes are designed by none other than the Queen herself. Margrethe II of Denmark, who is also an accomplished...
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Alma Deutscher celebrated composer, musician and writer at the age of 11
Alma Deutscher is a composer, virtuoso pianist and concert violinist who wrote her first sonata five years ago and whose first full opera, ‘Cinderella’ has its world premiere in Vienna next month. Alma Deutscher, un prodigio de 11 años....
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Meet Parissa – the “angel of Iranian music”
One of Iran’s most revered classical singers, Parissa, recently performed at London’s Barbican, which was celebrating the anniversary of the birth of iconic Persian poet Rumi. A star in the male-dominated world of Iranian classical...
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East meets West in music by Iranian soprano Darya Dadvar
Darya Dadvar is one of Iran’s most accomplished sopranos. The singer, who lives in Paris, recently performed in the French capital with the intercultural Orchestre Philharmonique de Paris-Est. Darya’s unique style combines traditional...
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Flashmob orchestra floods Berlin shopping centre
The German Symphonic Orchestra, led by honorary conductor Kent Nagano, held an impromptu concert in a Berlin shopping mall. About 1,000 musicians joined in the concert, the youngest aged just 5 and the oldest 82. The 1,500 onlookers,...