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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. »…
Pietari Inkinen’s brilliant recording of Prokofiev’s Symphonies
No. 3 and 6 with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie - The recordings of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphonies No. 3 and No. 6 by ... »…
Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 op. 103 on SWR Classic
In Symphonies No. 2, No. 11 and No. 12, Dmitri Shostakovich explicitly contemplated his country’s revolutionary past. »…
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. »…
Szczecin ballet premiere of Ludwig Minkus’ “Don Quixote”
Making a virtue out of necessity, the Opera in Szczecin Castle is to present its new ballet production of “Don Quixote” ... »…
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. »…
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”. »…
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. »…
The Russian violinist Mark Lubotsky is dead
Sikorski Publishers mourn the death of the great Russian violin virtuoso Mark Lubotsky, who died in Hamburg on 13 March 2021 at the age of 89. »…
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 ... »…
Clare Hammond’s impressive new recording
Clare Hammond’s new piano album “Variations” deals with the most diverse forms of variations by 20th century composer. »…
90th birthday of Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas
On 25 March 2021 we are commemorating the 90th birthday of Vytautas Barkauskas. Barkauskas was born on 25 March 1931 in Kaunas ... »…
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”. »…
Sikorski Magazine 1/2021 - Spring Awakening
New music appropriate to the season, based on subjects by Hans Christian andersen of Fyodor Dostoevsky and many other such novelties... »…
Marcin Danilewski releases Krzysztof Meyer’s “Capriccio interrotto” on CD
The Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer, who now lives in Germany, once stated a few years ago that the time had come to “never discover melody”. »…
25th anniversary of the death of Mieczysław Weinberg
The days are now long behind us when composer Mieczysław Weinberg, standing in Dmitri Shostakovich’s long shadow, was less known internationally. »…
Chinese New Year 2021 and our Chinese composers
The Chinese New Year 2021, the "Year of the Buffalo", is also an occasion to read our magazine "Musikszene China" ... »…
Nicholas Angelich releases Prokofiev album featuring 8th piano sonata and Visions fugitives
Nicholas Angelich highly praised for his “fine filigree work”, as the newspaper WELT once put it, has dedicated an album ... »…
Unbridled energy and urgency in Marc Coppey’s recording of Shostakovich’s cello concertos
Marc Coppey was predicted a great career by Yehudi Menuhin even as a young musician. »…
International Classical Music Award for Alban Gerhardt
The Berlin cello virtuoso Alban Gerhardt had already aroused great enthusiasm in 2007 ... »…
The great music publisher Prof. Dr. Hans W. Sikorski dies
He has died in Hamburg on 22 January 2021 at the age of 94. »…
Gidon Kremer releases live recording of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Violin Concerto on CD
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Violin Concerto op. 67 is already more than sixty years old, but only over recent years has it attracted the more intense, indeed enthusiastic, attention it merits. »…
Herbert Baumann’s ballet “Alice in Wonderland” in Brisbane, Australia
A “Wonderland” that gives us hope and pleasure, but above all an Alice who pushes through small and larger miracles against all odds, is certainly something we could all use in these difficult times. »…
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Hilversum releases CD of Lera Auerbach’s “Eva's Lament”
On the occasion of its 75th anniversary in October 2020, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Hilversum released an anniversary CD. »…
World premiere concert of Jan Müller-Wieland’s “Gottesspur” (Divine Trace) online
NDR Hannover has released a link for this remarkable concert. »…
SWR publishes Marko Nikodijevic's stream of “Cvetić, kućica ... / la lugubre gondola”
Now the stream has been published under the following link. »…
The music of Galina Ustvolskaya’s impressive 5th symphony “Amen” conquers the USA
Together with members of his university orchestra, Christopher Russell, conductor and professor at Azusa Pacific University, intends to perform the 5th symphony “Amen”. »…
Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic enthral with Myaskovsky and Prokofiev Symphonies
Myaskovsky (1881-1950) had met Prokofiev during their joint years of study. »…
Shanna Pranaitis makes world premiere recordings of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf’s flute works for NEOS
Like the oboe, the flute plays a prominent role in Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf's work. »…
New Harmonia Mundi CD with Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet op. 57 and the Seven Romances op. 127
The new album of the Trio Wanderer »…
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!” »…
Alfred Schnittke‘s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Eckart Runge in the Bestenliste 4/2020 of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 4/2020
The recording has been ranked in the category ‘Orchestral Music and Concerts’. »…
Part 4 of the complete edition of all Weinberg string quartets released by Accord
The fourth part of the complete edition of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s string quartets featuring the Silesian Quartet has been released on CD by the ACCORD label. »…
The Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne with Sergei Taneyev’s “John of Damascus” op. 1 at Oehms classics
On 19 June 2020 we commemorated the 105th anniversary of the death of Sergei Taneyev. »…
Composers on the Coronavirus Crisis
The consequences of the coronavirus crisis move us all. We have asked our composers how these months and weeks affect their artistic work. What they answer will be published progressively in this... »…
Works for chamber orchestra
Almost all works for chamber orchestras from our catalogs have an extra-musical title. »…
Works for Ensemble
The variety of instrumental timbres in the ensemble music of our composers from all over the world is unlimited. »…
Works for voice and chamber orchestra / strings / ensemble
Texts from all over the world, from Shakespeare, Poe, Petrarca to Rilke, Willemsen or ancient Chinese poems, have inspired our composers. »…
Works for solo instruments and chamber orchestra / strings / ensemble
Here you will also find works for unusual solo instruments such as oud, zheng and sheng, electric guitar or jazz trio and small orchestras or ensembles. »…
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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 and tam-tam ... »…
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 ... »…
80th birthday of Russian-British composer Vladislav Shoot
Russian-British composer Vladislav Shoot will celebrate his 80th birthday on 3 March 2021. Like many other composers of his generation, ... »…
Vladimir Martynov turns 75
Vladimir Martynov, born 20 February 1946, in Moscow, was a composition student of Nikolai Sidelnikov. »…
The Russian composer Alexander Tchaikovsky turns 75
Alexander Tchaikovsky will celebrate his 75th birthday on 19 February. »…
Naiara de la Puente Vadillo plays Sofia Gubaidulina’s ‘Silenzio’ at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki
Sofia Gubaidulinas ‘Silenzio’ for accordion, violin and violoncello will be performed on February 13, 2021 at 2:00 pm at a doctoral concert by Spanish accordionist Naiara de la Puente Vadillo ... »…
Daniil Trifonov playing Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra on Livestream
The Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, born in 1991 and admired worldwide, is to make his debut with piano concertos by Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Prokofiev with the Elbphilharmonie’s resident... »…
Simon Höfele’s excellent recording of Alexander Arutiunian’s trumpet concerto in A flat major
Alexander Arutiunian's trumpet concerto dates from 1950 and was written in Moscow for the virtuoso Timofei Dokschitzer. »…
