Giesinger Wandelkonzerte der Münchner Philhar...

Machtkampf in Salzburg. Intendant Markus Hinterhäuser muss gehen obwohl künstlerische Bilanz und Publikum stimmen. Kommunikationschaos, Egozentrik und Planlosigkeit bedrohen ein zentrales Kraftfeld der europäischen Festspielkultur 

1899 tritt der Komponist Alexander Zemlinsky aus der Jüdischen Gemeinde Wien aus. Ein pragmatischer Karriereschritt? Jedenfall bewahrt ihn diese Entscheidung nicht vor antisemitischen Angriffen. 

Synopsis Oh, to have been in Vienna on today’s date in 1785! Wolfgang Mozart had just finished a new piano concerto a week earlier and quite likely performed it himself for the first time as an intermission feature at a performance of the oratorio Ester, by Karl Ditters von Ditte ...  Show more

Synopsis Wolfgang Mozart died on Dec. 5, 1791, leaving behind an unfinished Requiem Mass, commissioned anonymously by Count Franz von Walsegg, a 28-year-old Austrian nobleman who had the ignoble habit of passing off works he commissioned as his own. The Requiem was intended to be ...  Show more

Join your host, conductor Joshua Weilerstein, as he welcomes Aram Demirjian, the Music Director of the Knoxville Symphony, and Matt Szymanski, the Founder and Music Director of Phoenix, to discuss an article that roiled the classical music scene just a few years ago: Baldur Bronn ...  Show more

Synopsis At Carnegie Hall on today’s date in 1908, Gustav Mahler conducted the New York Symphony, the 200-voice Oratorio Society chorus and two vocal soloists in the American premiere of his Symphony No. 2, his Resurrection Symphony. These days, Mahler’s Second ranks among his mo ...  Show more