Afghan-born singer Amir Vafa lifts his voice above the orchestra. “Oh, bitter pain!” he sings in near-perfect German. “My home! I shall never see you again!” The song, Das Heimweh (homesickness) by ...

This past fall, the Philadelphia Orchestra selected the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch as its new Music Director, succeeding the Italian Riccardo Muti. In so doing, Philadelphia was following in ...

In his second season at the Minnesota Orchestra’s helm, Thomas Søndergård seems intent upon demonstrating that he’s just as adept with the micro as the macro. From his first visit in December 2021, ...

I found the energy and the sense of fulfilment from music-making which every section of the orchestra conveyed irresistible. Holst’s The Planets showed, among many virtues, quite how strong German ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...

A French cellist joins a German orchestra to play music by Haydn. We take you to the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris to hear the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras in the ...