Classical Music

Iceland's harsh climate and dark winters characterize the country's folklore. The rugged landscapes become props for stories and myths that are passed down from generation to generation. Fantastic cre...

Iceland's harsh climate and dark winters characterize the country's folklore. The rugged landscapes become props for stories and myths that are passed down from generation to generation. Fantastic cre...

True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? This is how Edgar Allan Poe's psychogram of a murderer begins in the short story "The Tell Tale H...

True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? This is how Edgar Allan Poe's psychogram of a murderer begins in the short story "The Tell Tale H...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

The German-Italian composer and Rheinberger pupil Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was very successful with his comic operas at the beginning of the 20th century. His early work "Die neugierigen Frauen" premiered...

Schon immer hatte Brahms ein sicheres Gespür für lyrische Qualität. Musikalisch besonders berührend wusste er mit seinem Zyklus 'Vier Quartette' op. 92 für Singstimmen und Klavier vier Gedichte von Go...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

This is how the Parzen, the goddesses of fate in Greek and Roman mythology, sang: the Parzenlied in Goethe's verse drama "Iphigenia in Tauris", which became the model for Johannes Brahms, is about cur...

So sangen die Parzen, die Schicksalsgöttinnen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie: Von Fluch und Schicksal handelt das Parzenlied in Goethes Versdrama "Iphigenie auf Tauris", das zur Vorlage für Johan...