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11 June 2023


Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses?

15 April 2021

dona nobis pacem

5 July 2023


Diana Tishchenko, a violinist from Ukraine, played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022.

5 July 2022

Prayer for Ukraine

8 July 2023


The Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo, published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost but published again in 2016.

22 July 2017

Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow received the first biennial Abel Prize of Köthen for their efforts to retrieve and publish compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel.

31 July 2023


A French team, with Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez, created the Jahrhundertring of Wagner's Ring cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot".

6 November 2013

2 August 2023


Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

2 August 2010

pictured:

Jonathon Heyward announcing on 3 March 2022 at the Stadttheater Minden that the concert (which included Stavinsky's The Firebird) was dedicated to the victims of the Russian invasion into Ukraine

22 August 2023


Claude Debussy described his Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher Durand as of "almost classical form".

22 August 2022

28 August 2023


Rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!".

8 September 2013

heard 2013

29 August 2023


When Berit Lindholm (18 October 1934 – 12 August 2023), a dramatic soprano of the Royal Swedish Opera, appeared as Chrysothemis at the Royal Opera House, a reviewer described her as "tall, and remarkably slim for so epic a voice".

Berit Lindholm performed as Wagner's Isolde at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in a pioneering tour of the Vienna State Opera in 1971.

30 August 2023


Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners.

16 December 2020 (quirky in the all- Beethoven set)

in concert today

4 September 2023
 In her 2021 composition with string orchestra, This too shall pass Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?

4 September 2013

15 September 2023


Soprano Jessye Norman (15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019), whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial.

29 March 2020

19 September 2023


After the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt (September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018) said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now".

12 January 2019

29 September 2023
 The Company of Heaven, about angels, composed by Benjamin Britten for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra, and first aired by the BBC on Michaelmas, 29 September 1937, contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".

25 June 2013

6 October 2023
 Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday

6 October 2023

8 October 2023


Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) prepared her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches, and played it at the Casals Forum, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.

9 October 2023


Alain Altinoglu (born 9 October 1975) conducted the opening concert of the 2023 Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey, featuring Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the MDR Rundfunkchor and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

18 October 2023
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Walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens.

20 June 2011

20 October 2023
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In 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students.

20 October 2023

Schau an der schönen Gärten Zier

21 October 2023
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"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt" ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album.

26 December 2018

"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"

28 October 2023
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Isabelle Cals, who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese, appeared as Wagner's Kundry in a production of Parsifal at the Stadttheater Minden

28 October 2023

In Der Ring in Minden, the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end.

31 October 2023
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John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.

31 October 2012

Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit

2 November 2023
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2 November 2023

4 November 2023
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Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses.

15 April 2021

The hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear.

23 May 2014

6 November 2023
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On 6 November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si', described as a Franciscan Magnificat, with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral.

29 January 2017

Jesu, meine Freude

7 November 2023
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Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, first performed 7 November 1723, three between Fear and Hope, and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ.

14 November 2010

Eric Sams remarked "what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?" of the song collection Myrthen (Myrtles), which Robert Schumann dedicated to Clara.

7 November 2023

14 November 2023
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In 2016, Edition Güntersberg published Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo by Georg Philipp Telemann that had been lost.

22 July 2017

Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.) received the first biennial Abel Prize of Köthen for their efforts to retrieve and publish compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel.

15 November 2023
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Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf (15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019), who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria.

19 November 2019

da pacem Domine

16 November 2023
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The 1964 church for the new parish Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels) in Hannover was designed by Josef Bieling to symbolize the tent of God among men.

18 December 2018

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

Nun danket all und bringet Ehr

17 November 2023
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17 November 2023

listen and look, Poppea

21 November 2023
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Two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein.

21 November 2010

Palmeri: Misatango Reulein: Te Deum

look and listen to us

22 November 2023
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22 November 2023

listen to Britten and Pears

23 November 2023
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Thanksgiving

Lea Ackermann, a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa.

23 November 2023

Nun danket all und bringet Ehr

26 July 2023
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15 January 2016

da pacem Domine

27 November 2023
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Jerome Kohl (November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020), a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017.

28 January 2021

In Freundschaft

30 November 2023
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Contralto Sonia Prina (born 30 November 1975) performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Oper Frankfurt, staged as a rocker.

13 September 2010

L'enfant et les sortilèges

2 December 2023
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Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas (2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977).

21 August 2020

Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role.

8 March 2021

3 December 2023
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3 December 2017

4 December 2023
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Gabriel Dessauer (born 4 December 1955) conducted the premiere of Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer with a project choir at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden.

25 November 2010

The prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people".

9 December 2011

6 December 2023
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Wilhelm II, German Emperor, called the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden "the most beautiful spa in the world" at the opening ceremony.

8 April 2012

Saint Nicolas

7 December 2023
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Ignace Michiels (born 7 December 1963) of the St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem.

29 August 2010

Reger: Der 100. Psalm

8 December 2023
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Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum, a motet suitable for Advent, about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her.

18 December 2015

Maria durch ein Dornwald ging

10 December 2023
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In 1973 Luten Petrowsky (10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023) played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany.

27 July 2023

Machet die Tore weit

12 December 2023
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The Advent hymn "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" (O Saviour, tear open the heavens) was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the plague, and witch trials.

23 December 2016

13 December 2023
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December 13, 2018

15 December 2023
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Erna Berger sang the title role of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter (15 December 1911 – 27 May 1974) and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

10 August 2010

Der Rosenkavalier

16 December 2023
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Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who commissioned Beethoven's Mass in C major for his wife's name day, found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable".

7 July 2015

Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen

17 December 2023
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In 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival.

trailer Aida

Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder

20 December 2023
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The German Advent song "Tochter Zion, freue dich" has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke set to music used for triumphant entrances in two of Handel's oratorios.

12 January 2020

22 December 2023
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Der neue Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel wurde 2023 in Köthen vorgestellt, wo der Gambist vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde.

22 December 2023

The new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel (AbelWV) was introduced in Köthen, where the viol virtuoso was born on 22 December 1723.

25 December 2023
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Merry Christmas!

"Verbum caro factum est", a Christmas motet for six voices by Hans Leo Hassler in the Venetian polychoral style, has been arranged for brass ensembles.

25 December 2023

O du fröhliche...

29 December 2023
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Rebekka Habermas, a German historian at the University of Göttingen, who also taught in Paris, Montreal and New York, focused on people in the social and cultural conditions of 19th-century Germany.

29 December 2023

30 December 2023
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Heike Matthiesen recorded a 2016 album Guitar Ladies of compositions for guitar solo by women including Sidney Pratten (1821–1895), María Luisa Anido, Ida Presti, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sylvie Bodorová, Annette Kruisbrink, and Maria Linnemann who had dedicated her work to the player.

30 December 2023

31 December 2023
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Happy New Year 2024

A German theologian wrote "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" (Trust the new ways) to the melody of Lob Gott getrost mit Singen (Praise God confidently with singing) to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall.

7 April 2021