April 2021

SWR2 dedicates an evening concert to Sofia Gubaidulina on 9 April 2021
SWR 2 is to broadcast an evening concert on 9 April 2021 from 8:05 p.m. featuring Sofia Gubaidulina’s works “Transformation” for solo trombone, saxophone quartet, cello, double bass ...

For Sergei Prokofiev’s 130th birthday on 23 April 2021
The music of Sergei Prokofiev is world repertoire. Whether it is the great ballet music for “Romeo and Juliet” or ...

Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s 90th Birthday and his arrangements of works by Schnittke, Prokofiev and Shostakovich
On 16 June 2018, Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky died in Moscow at the age of 87. We are commemorating his 90th birthday on 4 May 2021.

Pietari Inkinen’s brilliant recording of Prokofiev’s Symphonies No. 3 and 6 with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
he recordings of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphonies No. 3 and No. 6 by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under the baton of its principal conductor ...

Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 op. 103 with the SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eliahu Inbal on SWR Classic
In Symphonies No. 2, No. 11 and No. 12, Dmitri Shostakovich explicitly contemplated his country’s revolutionary past.

KlangART Vision 2021 music festival with music by Ustvolskaya and Shostakovich
From 10 April to 23 May 2021KlangART-Vision is presenting sensational concerts. “Making us aware of the cultural wealth of our society is an inspiring concern,” write the makers.

Composer and pianist Dejan Lazić in an interview with FONO FORUM
On the occasion of Dejan Lazić’s new CD release of Mozart’s piano quartets and his arrangement of Mozart's Rondo concertante for piano, ...

New piano works by Krzysztof Meyer: Martin Szlezer with world premiere of the Fantasy for piano
Over the last four years Polish composer, pianist and music theorist Krzysztof Meyer has turned increasingly to piano music.

Clare Hammond’s impressive new recording of Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Chaconne” for piano
Clare Hammond’s new piano album “Variations” deals with the most diverse forms of variations as conceived and created by 20th century composer.

Cellist Christina Meißner with first recording of Gubaidulina’s “From the Visions of Hildegard of Bingen”
The cellist Christina Meißner has released a double album exclusively with first recordings on the label “Querstand”.

Nicholas Angelich releases Prokofiev album featuring 8th piano sonata and Visions fugitives
The American pianist Nicholas Angelich highly praised for his “fine filigree work”, as the newspaper WELT once put it, has dedicated an album of his own to Sergei Prokofiev on the Erato label ...

Quintet works by Grigori Frid released on CD by Capriccio
A CD featuring two quintet works by Grigori Frid (1919-1998) has just been released on the Capriccio label.

Veit Hertenstein has recorded Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata op. 147 and the Cello Sonata op. 40 in his own arrangement for viola
From the young viola player Veit Hertenstein came the saying, “Violin is good, viola is better!”

Frederick Ashton’s legendary choreography of Sergei Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” on DVD at Opus Arte
There are countless choreographies of Sergei Prokofiev’s legendary ballet classic “Cinderella”.