Composer

Barbara Hannigan takes on Ligeti’s Macabre once again, which she made a modern classic. But first, Bartók’s erotic tale, Vivier’s journey through space, and a dazzling Haydn symphony. All with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.

Myth and Mystery with Barbara Hannigan

Göteborgs Konserthus

Described as a pianist with “magician's fingers and soul of integrity” (Le Monde), Canadian Bruce Liu returns to Koerner Hall to perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Albéniz, and Liszt.

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Bruce Liu, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

In Frankfurt, it goes without saying that radio orchestras are in a class of their own. One of the most renowned is the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, which has a history spanning more than a century and has been the resident orchestra at the Proms in London for almost as long. Conductor Anja Bihlmaier, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic since 2024, has enjoyed great success there with the orchestra on several occasions. The orchestra holds the native Swabian in high esteem. Adam Szabo, director of the orchestra, says she is 'a rare talent – courageous and daring, meticulous and brilliantly connected to the musical drama of every work she tackles'. The soloist for the evening is Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández, who recently showcased his exceptional talent in a critically acclaimed album of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations.

Beethoven Seventh Symphony: Frankfurt

Alte Oper

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra is known for its stylistic versatility and sonical precision - this evening it is under the direction of Anja Bihlmaier, who has made a name for herself with clear drawing and fine flair for musical suspense. As a soloist, the cellist Pablo Ferrández, one of the most prominent artists of his generation, appreciated for his intense musicality and his warm tone, can be experienced. Together they create a program that ranges from the colorful early work of György Ligetis to Tchaikovsky's elegant Rococo Variations to Beethoven's pulsating Seventh Symphony.

Beethoven Seventh Symphony: Dortmund

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Julia Hamos’s debut album, including Bartók’s Hungarian Peasant Songs together with works by Ligeti and Schubert, prompted Gramophone’s reviewer to praise the ‘sheer finesse, innate musicality and total commitment informing every note she plays.’ The Hungarian American artist, Sir András Schiff’s assistant at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, offers an equally satisfying lunchtime repertoire menu with her vibrant programme.

Julia Hamos piano

Wigmore Hall

Umberto Clerici leads us into the lyricism of Dvořák’s Symphony No.8, a heartfelt celebration of Bohemia’s natural beauty. Alive with birdsong, rustic dances and sweeping melodies, its folk-infused tunes mirror Ligeti’s colourful Concert Românesc, a spirited glimpse of the composer before his avant-garde years.

Bryce Dessner’s Trembling Earth

Sydney Opera House

Umberto Clerici conducts this richly textured program featuring music by two composers who grew up to conquer the world’s concert halls but who never forgot their roots in rural areas of eastern Europe.

Umberto Clerici conducts Dvořák

One of Britain’s most respected pianists, Danny Driver is recognized internationally for his sophistication, insight, and musical depth, with a holistic approach inspired by studies at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. His concert programs and recordings reflect his breadth of repertoire and musical curiosity, exploring mainstream and neglected music from the Baroque period to the present day.

Danny Driver, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

Turning brass into gold: five young trumpeters from Great Britain, Sweden, and Ukraine know the formula that countless alchemists have sought in vain. Founded four years ago at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Fiveby5 produces a radiant, golden brass sound with a brilliant sheen and has already won numerous prizes. Most recently, the quintet won the prestigious Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition in 2025. This success has, among other things, led to their appearance at “In the Streets: City Stage”: the varied program ranges from Bach, Rameau, and Mozart to the rousing Hoe-Down from Aaron Copland’s cowboy ballet Rodeo.

“Brass Spectacular in Memory of Philip Jones”

KKL Lucerne

Kapellplatz

The Musikfest Berlin opens with Le Grand Macabre by György Ligeti and at the same time celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. Ligeti’s only opera is a profoundly-black parable of war and the end of the world, but ultimately humour gains the upper hand and indirectly also helps in overcoming the fear of death. It is therefore no surprise that this satire is one of the most frequently performed works of contemporary music theatre. Nicholas Collon leads the way through Ligeti’s grotesque doomsday scenario as the chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and an international ensemble of soloists. Thanks to the Helsinki Festival, Ligeti’s “anti-anti-opera”, as the composer himself called it, will be heard for the first time in Finland just a few days previously.

Opening Ceremony Musikfest Berlin 2026 75 Years Berliner Festspiele

Berliner Philharmoniker

Pierre-Laurent Aimard – ‘one of the most essential keyboard advocates of our era’ (The Guardian) – enjoyed a close professional partnership and friendship with pianist and composer Alfred Brendel. In the third of our Brendel tribute recitals, he offers a characteristically imaginative programme of works close to both their hearts.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

The Queen's Hall

Subscription Concert 5 with György Ligeti's "Lux aeterna" for a cappella choir and Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor; introduction at 6 p.m.

SWR Symphony Orchestra Subscription Concert 5 – ROTH BRUCKNER

Congress Center Rosengarten

We invite you to listen to the incendiary cello music at Paliesius Manor! Augustas Gocentas will perform – a Lithuanian cellist, born into a musical family in Vilnius. He began studying the cello at the MK Čiurlionis School in the class of Ramutė Kalnėnaitė, and also studied piano for eleven years in the class of Jūratė Rudaitienė. The cellist received his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Sibelius Academy and in 2024 became a member of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.

Burning Cella

Paliesius Manor

Join Bath Philharmonia under Kerem Hasan for an electrifying night: Mozart’s sparkling overture, Saint-Saëns’ lyrical Cello Concerto with Sterling Elliott, Ligeti’s folk-inspired Concert Românesc, and Ginastera’s fiery Dances from Estancia. Drama, rhythm, and brilliance—an evening not to miss!

Sterling Elliott & Bath Phil

The Forum Bath

The Basel Sinfonietta wind quintet presents a special short program for the 200th anniversary of the Stadtcasino Basel.

Anniversary of the Basel City Casino: Ligeti, Ishchenko, Kurtág

Stadtcasino Basel

Gezeitenkonzert with young prize-winning talents, scholarship holders of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, presenting a chamber music program; includes a guided tour (Streifzug) of the Landhausgarten Knospe.

Kira Koch, Charlotte Melkonian, Oscar Hollmer & Linda Yuan

Pollmann & Renken

A clarinet soars upwards – and immediately, you can picture the skyscrapers of jazz-age Manhattan. There’s nothing quite like Rhapsody in Blue, and few living pianists play Gershwin with more flair than our soloist today, Japanese jazz legend Makoto Ozone. And with RPO Conductor-in-Residence Kevin John Edusei conducting, there are endless pictures to be painted and stories to be told. High in the mountains of Transylvania, György Ligeti hears a shepherd blow his horn, and gypsy fiddles flash around the campfire. And far from his Hungarian homeland, composed in the USA, Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra sets out to put a great orchestra through its paces and ends up by punching the air with glee. This is music that loves life – and believe us, you can feel it.

Makoto Ozone plays Gershwin

Cadogan Hall 

A clarinet soars upwards – and immediately, you can picture the skyscrapers of jazz-age Manhattan. There’s nothing quite like Rhapsody in Blue, and few living pianists play Gershwin with more flair than our soloist today, Japanese jazz legend Makoto Ozone. And with RPO Conductor-in-Residence Kevin John Edusei is conducting, there are endless pictures to be painted and stories to be told.

High in the mountains of Transylvania, György Ligeti hears a shepherd blow his horn, and gypsy fiddles flash around the campfire.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Makoto Ozone plays Gershwin

Hungarian-American pianist Julia Hamos presents a program that bridges centuries and styles and features two of the most important composers from Hungary. Beginning with a selection from Kurtág’s Játékok, she navigates through Haydn’s Sonata in E minor, Ligeti’s Études (Arc-en-ciel, Der Zauberlehrling, Fanfares), and Mozart’s Sonata in A minor, culminating in Schumann’s beloved Fantasie in C Major. Hamos’s adventurous spirit and compelling artistry promise an evening of compelling musical exploration.

Julia Hamos, piano

Washington Performing Arts

Three piano concertos in a single evening – each one building a bridge to the past. Maurice Ravel composed his Piano Concerto in G “in the spirit of Mozart,” yet it also shimmers with hints of jazz and Basque folk music. In Credo, Arvo Pärt draws on the famous C major Prelude from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, juxtaposing familiar tonality with avant-garde techniques. And György Kurtág – who celebrated his 100th birthday in February 2026 – looks back to the free associations of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Op. 27 piano sonatas in his mesmerizing spatial work … quasi una fantasia …, which positions the instruments all around the audience. These three strikingly different concertos are set alongside America – A Prophecy, a dark, apocalyptic vision by the British composer Thomas Adès, who conducts the performance himself. The work confronts the destruction of Mayan culture by the Spanish conquistadors, with a soprano cast in the role of a warning seer. And at the very start of the concert,  in György Ligeti’s Poème Symphonique, 100 metronomes will begin ticking at the same time. One by one, they gradually fall silent. When the last metronome stops, says Víkingur Ólafsson, it feels “like the end of life.”

Mahler Chamber Orchestra | MDR Radio Choir | Thomas Adès | Víkingur Ólafsson | Anna Dennis

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

We are convinced that humans need music like they need air to breathe. In the 7th symphony concert, Moritz Gnann returns to the podium of the State Orchestra after his successful Kassel opera debut last season. This time he dedicates himself to works that explore the forces of nature – from storms and thunderstorms to the atmospheric lightness of the air.

7th Symphony Concert - Air

Congress Palace Kassel City Hall

Carion Wind Quintet is an award-winning Danish-Latvian ensemble which brings a truly unique and innovative chamber music experience to audiences. Carion fascinates audiences with its carefully choreographed and dramatized performances of classical and modern works, making music on stage visible and adding a new dimension of traditional concert events.

Carion Wind Quintet

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Lesher Center for the Arts

Concertini

La Monnaie - De Munt

Aarhus Kammerorkester presents György Ligeti's Kammerkonzert (1970) alongside three world premieres by composition students from Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium.

Modern Trends – Ligeti's "Kammerkonzert" and Three World Premieres

Musikhuset Aarhus

Pomp, flourishes, and wigs – when it comes to the harpsichord, many people primarily associate it with the Baroque period. But at the beginning of the 20th century, this instrument, which had been forgotten for a long time, experienced a true renaissance. Mahan Esfahani presents classics from this period as well as even more contemporary works that catapult the harpsichord from the past into the present.

Mahan Esfahani, Cembalo

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble brings the unmistakable brilliance of one of the world’s most revered chamber orchestras to an intimate setting. Under the direction of Joshua Bell, the Academy is celebrated for its dynamic and refined performances, a legacy upheld by this elite group of principal players. Joined by guest pianist Caroline Palmer, the Wind Ensemble offers a program that highlights the elegance of Mozart, the boldness of Beethoven, and the rich tradition of chamber music at its finest.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble

Reynolds Club

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields was founded by Sir Neville Marriner

in 1958 and is currently led by Music Director Joshua Bell. In 1967, the Academy Chamber Ensemble was formed to perform the larger scale chamber music repertoire with players who customarily worked together, instead of the usual string quartet with additional guests. Drawn from the principal players of the orchestra, the Chamber Ensemble’s touring commitments are extensive and include regular tours of Europe and North America, whilst recording contracts with Philips Classics, Hyperion, and Chandos have led to the release of over thirty CDs. The Chamber Ensemble now performs in multiple configurations, including the Academy Wind Ensemble, which returns to North America with wind quintet repertoire in April 2026.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble

Albuquerque Academy

Canadian Barbara Hannigan is an absolute world star! A unique figure who generously demonstrates her multi-talent as both conductor and singer in one and the same concert. This evening is no exception, when Richard Strauss' music-philosophical masterpiece of Zarathustra, a major work by Ligeti and a world premiere of Laura Bowler are on the program.

Hannigan and Zarathustra

The Conservatory Concert Hall

This program’s four stars of Hungarian music, from the ultra-Romantic Franz Liszt to the ground-breaking György Ligeti, reveal the breadth, color, and infectious energy of their country’s music and folk culture. Closing the performance is Ernő Dohnányi’s first published work, composed around age 17, of which Brahms said that he “could not have done it better” himself.

Liszt and Bartók

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Musica Nova

University of Rochester

The Isidore Quartet skyrocketed to the heights of the music world since winning the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Banff International String Quartet Competition and their debut at DACAMERA in 2023. They return with a strikingly diverse program, juxtaposing Schubert’s quartet with twentieth and twenty-first century works. We begin with the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti’s second quartet, where numerous musical lines weave together to create a dramatic soundscape. Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyshawn Sorey’s Everything Changes, Nothing Changes is a tour-de-force of subtle voicings, beautifully shifting harmonies and pulsating string sounds. We close with Schubert’s deeply expressive “Rosamunde” Quartet, admired for its emotional directness and eloquent beauty.

Isidore String Quartet

The Menil Collection

Paul Lay and Joël Suhubiette, artistic director of the Les Éléments Chamber Choir, pursued a parallel musical career that took them to Toulouse and then to Paris. The two musicians share a curiosity for all types of music, which they enjoy exploring and bringing into dialogue in original creations. Their encounter sparked a desire to confront their worlds and blend them into a unique creation. In this unique program, for which he composed the music inspired by poems by Pablo Neruda, Henry David Thoreau, Victor Hugo, and Emily Dickinson, Paul Lay presents several original pieces for choir and jazz trio around the theme of light. These pages are complemented by arrangements of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, and György Ligeti for choir and jazz trio.

Waves of Light

Le Corum

Bring it with youEnsemble Midweston a musical journey on the iconic train, the Orient Express. We board in Paris and travel through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and Romania – before arriving in the vibrant world of Istanbul.

Ensemble Midwest: Orient Express

Unitarisk Kirkesamfund

We open with his intimate Cello Sonata No.2, performed by Paul Watkins and Alessio Bax. To close, violinist Alena Baeva joins them for his Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano, a work of dynamic interplay composed during one of his great creative outpourings.

Mysteries: Beethoven and Ligeti

Smith Square Hall

Join Ensemble MidtVest on a musical journey on the iconic train, the Orient Express. We board in Paris and travel through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary and Romania – before arriving in the vibrant world of Istanbul.

The Orient Express

Sund church

Højhuset Kulturhotel

Gimsing Take Away

He wants to proclaim the imminent destruction of the world and frivolous humanity. Seduced and overwhelmed by the unknown desires of life, only Nekrotzar himself dies in the end. Everyone else comes to the moral that their temporary survival should be used to maintain the way of life they have led until then.

Le Grand Macabre

Vienna State Opera

Around 250 years separate the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach from the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, one of the most distinguished representatives of New Music in the 20th century. Yet they have something in common: the radical concentration of compositional means with which they advanced into new realms of expression. It is therefore a fascinating dialogue when Bach's famous "Goldberg Variations," a crown jewel of keyboard literature to this day, encounters György Ligeti's String Quartet No. 1. While Bach uses a simply enchanting melody, which he develops into 30 variations, Ligeti takes a short four-note motif, which he then allows to undergo a series of metamorphoses.

Radical worlds of expression

Theater Duisburg

Laura Bowler is a composer of rare imagination and theatrical flair. Her new work for voice and orchestra is inspired by Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang’s The White Book – a poetic meditation on colour, grief and the human spirit.

London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan

Barbican Centre

A theatrical and stirring new work by Laura Bowler preludes Ligeti's ethereal, dreamlike soundworld and Richard Strauss' colossal, awe-inspiring homage to Nietzsche.

Bowler, Ligeti and Richard Strauss

Guest Concert

BASF-Feierabendhaus

Enjoy an afternoon of folk music-inspired pieces from Eastern European composers. Ligetti’s Concert Romanesc evoked memories of his childhood in Romania, and you’ll hear traditional Czech, Romanian, and Hungarian folk dances throughout the rest of the program.

Folk Music Inspired

St. Paul's Syracuse, the Downtown Episcopal Church

Hailed as “Australia’s most exciting young cellist” by Limelight magazine, Switzerland-based Australian musician James Morley works largely as a soloist and chamber musician. He is a specialist in contemporary music performance and demonstrates that here, anchored by  bastions of the Baroque era Colombi and Biber.

James Morley

Leeds Conservatoire

There's someone standing on the edge of the abyss, seeing catastrophe approaching: a composer who works with his ears for his ears knows he's going deaf. And he's already in his early 30s. "I want to seize fate by the jaws, it certainly shall not bend me down completely." So said Ludwig van Beethoven in 1801.

On the pulse

Cologne Philharmonie

In this unique world premiere, we hear Laura Bowler’s composition inspired by The White Book by Nobel Prize-winner Han Kang. The work was commissioned by Principal Guest Conductor Barbara Hannigan, who also sings at this performance. With the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and choir.

The White Book

Göteborgs Symfoniker

The young Chinese Canadian pianist Bruce Liu has caught the attention of listeners worldwide, praised for “playing of breathtaking beauty” (BBC Music Magazine) and an “effortless virtuosity [that] consistently oozes charisma” (Classics Today). Ever since taking first prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021, Liu’s star has been on the rise, with warmly received recitals on many of the world’s most prestigious concert stages.

Cal Performances

Our current cohort of Future Firsts join forces with students from the Royal Academy of Music and members of the LPO for a vibrant performance conducted by our Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner. The programme is part of our ‘Phoenix Lands’ week and features works by two musical titans: Ligeti’s intricate Melodien and the energetic Dance Suite by Bartók.

LPO Showcase: Foyle Future Firsts and the Royal Academy of Music

Southbank Centre

A highly distinguished pianist and the first classical performer to be granted a MacArthur Fellowship, Sir Stephen Hough’s magic is best experienced live — in these concerts, he performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, which begins cautiously but soon dives into its true warmth and urgency. Guest conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni guides this rollicking dance across central and eastern Europe: hear the spirit of Ligeti’s Romania, Kodály’s love for his native Hungary, and Mozart’s musical postcard from Prague.

Zeitouni Conducts Mozart

Warner Grand Theater

'The Ring' stands as the undisputed giant of operatic literature. Wagner's great divine tale of the creation and destruction of the world takes four evenings to perform, but in composer Henk de Vlieger's arrangement, the glowing orchestral sounds are allowed to shine with undiminished dramatic power, even though the suite only lasts a little over an hour.

Hermus & Wagner

DR Koncerthuset

Barbara Hannigan takes us on an emotional journey filled with birdsong and star-crossed lovers. Joining her with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra is friend Bertrand Chamayou, performing Ravel’s hopeful and jazz-inspired Piano Concerto.

Meeting of Masters: Ravel & Messiaen

The Boston Musical Intelligencer praises the Isidore String Quartet’s “invigorating and refreshing” playing and “bold virtuosity.” Winner of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2022, the group was formed in 2019 at the Juilliard School. Since that time, the quartet has appeared in major series throughout North America, collaborating with eminent performers including James Ehnes, Jeremy Denk, Shai Wosner, and Jon Nakamatsu. The Isidore Quartet’s 2024-25 season included concert appearances across the US and Canada, as well as at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and multiple cities in Germany. Since their Banff Competition-winning performance featuring Billy Childs’s String Quartet No. 2 (“Awakenings”), the quartet has developed a strong connection to the composer’s works, and in the 2025-26 season, they will premiere a new string quartet written for them by Childs.

Northwestern University

Following its successful world premiere in Tokyo and the release of the acclaimed album, the officially licensed solo piano programme based on SQUARE ENIX's legendary game music now comes to the United Kingdom for the first time. Renowned pianist Mischa Cheung performs Piano Fantasies at LSO St Luke's, featuring twelve newly arranged pieces from Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana.

Piano Fantasies – Music from SQUARE ENIX

LSO St Luke's

Embark on a journey through grand themes and musical innovation, from Rachmaninov’s haunting The Isle of the Dead to Ligeti’s revolutionary Atmosphères, and Ravel’s vibrant Piano Concerto in G with its jazzy flair and tender melodies. The Bayerisches Staatsorchester, one of the world’s oldest orchestras, brings its rich tradition to the Queen Elisabeth Hall under the inspired baton of Vladimir Jurowski. French piano legend Hélène Grimaud graces the stage with her unmatched artistry. The evening culminates in Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra, with its iconic opening and sweeping drama. A concert of introspection, experimentation, and grandeur that will leave a lasting impression.

Hélène Grimaud and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Part three of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, where the honorary conductor leads the the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and soloists Malena Ernman and Jennifer France in György Ligeti's Requiem, written for the choir in 1965 and used by Stanley Kubrick in his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Salonen, Jansen & Ligeti's Requiem

Berwaldhallen

Part three of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, where the honorary conductor leads the the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and soloists Malena Ernman and Jennifer France in György Ligeti's Requiem, written for the choir in 1965 and used by Stanley Kubrick in his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Additionally, Janine Jansen joins the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sergei Prokofiev's lyrical and virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major. The concert begins with the Swedish premiere of Salonen's Tiu  (Finnish for a dozen), which was written for the 20th anniversary of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Salonen himself describes the work as 'palindromes, fanfares, and clouds for orchestra.’

SR Berwaldhallen

CARION is a Danish/Swedish/Latvian wind quintet, which is both well-founded in the traditional classical wind quintet repertoire, but has also achieved enthusiastic reviews for their performances of lesser-known and newer repertoire within the wind quintet genre in many places in Europe, the USA, and Brazil. The quintet has collaborated with contemporary composers such as Jeppe Just, Renate Stivrina, Andris Szenitis, Britta Byström and Anders Nordentoft.

CARION Wind Quintet

MantziusLive

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Yuja Wang does double duty in two virtuosic piano concertos: Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, which transforms an apparent limitation into a jaw-dropping tour de force, alongside Ligeti’s fiendishly playful contribution to the genre. Czech conductor Petr Popelka continues the celebrations for Ravel’s 150th birthday with the composer’s magnificent orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Yuja Wang Plays Ravel

Severance Music Center

Leading Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski takes an innovative approach to contemporary chamber music, blending intricate textures and bold sonic explorations. Academy instrumentalists bring her distinctive sound to life.

Composer in Residence: Lotta Wennäkoski

Royal Academy of Music

This concert is included in these packages: Chamber Music Dialogues, Fantasy and Fury: Music of the Romantic, and Season Sampler.

Habsburg Harmonies: Haydn, Ligeti, and Brahms

Colburn School

When Yuja Wang and Teddy Abrams last shared the stage in Louisville, it led to a Grammy win. Now, the longtime collaborators reunite for a night of electrifying virtuosity, diving into the bold sounds of Hungary.

Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 kicks things off with a whirlwind of fire and flair, followed by Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, a dazzling, shape-shifting masterwork that Wang navigates with “sly, jazzy exuberance” (Gramophone). Closing the program is Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a tour-de-force that spotlights every section of the orchestra in a vibrant, folk-infused celebration.

Yuja Wang & Teddy Abrams Return

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

At once rooted in the purest liturgical tradition and a laboratory for avant-garde music intent on seduction, Ligeti's Requiem is a landmark work of the 20th century, succeeded by the mystical medievalism of the Fourth Symphony that Bruckner himself called “Romantic”.

Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen

Philharmonie de Paris

Students join forces with Connaught Brass in a powerful tribute concert honouring the legendary conductor and composer Elgar Howarth, former Director of Brass Ensembles at the Academy. Renowned trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger takes the podium to conduct, paying homage to his influential mentor.

Remembering Elgar Howarth

Mozart & Mendelssohn

Northern Virginia Community College - Alexandria Campus

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

Join us on a musical space adventure like no other when the Odense Symphony Orchestra explores known and unknown galaxies in a giant program with the biggest draw. Gustav Holst's Planeterne is a symphonic masterpiece that requires considerable instrumental muscle to realize, and the 7 movements that encapsulate the essence of the planets in our solar system are here followed by Colin Matthews's addition: Pluto – despite the fact that we are now no longer allowed to call the one planet. Ligeti's Atmosphères is the sound of being stretched out in space with no possibility of coming back – and that's what Stanley Kubrick heard when he catapulted the piece to world fame as an invisible and eerie co-star in his ground-breaking film Space Travel in 2001.

The Planets & Star Wars

Odense Concert Hall

In the antiphon "O Radiant Dawn," which serves as the theme for this Chorage program, Scottish composer James MacMillan moves from the delicate touch of a ray of light to the rich spectrum of colors of the ever-awakening morning. In MacMillan's "A New Song," a setting of Psalm 96, the choral voices, singing a new day to the Lord, build upon a sustained pedal point, which arguably expresses the life-giving foundation of the earth, where the "primordial light" dwells (heard in Mahler's setting). Organist Stephan Pollhammer unfolds the splendor of daybreak with Reger's powerful Choral Fantasia on the Morning Star.

Chorage® #2 A Radiant Dawn

Pfarrkirche Salzburg-Itzling

Guest Concertmaster Alexandra Preucil and violist Antoine Tamestit lead a thrilling exploration of Hungarian music and culture with the raw passion of Bartók's duos, the folk-infused charm of Weber's Andante e Rondo ungarese, the dazzling virtuosity of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, and the fiery rhythms of Brahms' Hungarian Dances.

Hungarian Dances

Orpheum Theater

District Concert Winzerla № 1

Galileo Community School, Aula

Join us on an unforgettable journey through Europe – a journey where wine and classical music merge in a relaxed, atmospheric atmosphere.

Taste the notes

Aarhus Music Hall

Pianist Anna Geniushene returns to Tippet Rise to play alongside pianist Lukas Geniušas, in his debut at the art center. The husband-and-wife duo have been performing together for over ten years, while also maintaining celebrated individual careers. Geniushene was the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Cliburn Silver Medal, and Geniušas is the laureate of several prominent international competitions, notably Silver Medalist at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the 2010 International Chopin competition. At Tippet Rise, their program features three works for four hands.

Anna Geniushene, piano; Lukas Geniušas, piano

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Grand Théâtre de Provence

Parents with babies up to one year old and expectant mothers can make themselves comfortable on round baby blankets, and listen to the string sounds of Ensemble Resonanz. Familiar melodies invite the audience to sing along. Pram parking spaces and baby changing units are available both in the city districts and in the Elbphilharmonie.

Composer

György Ligeti

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 5 Nov, 2026

Myth and Mystery with Barbara Hannigan · Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Nov 11, 2026

Shifting Gears · Royal Academy of Music

Nov 17, 2026

RBC Wind Orchestra · Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Jan 28, 2027

SCO 26/27: SCO x Brooklyn Rider · The Queen's Hall

28 - 29 Jan, 2027

SCO x Brooklyn Rider · Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Past events

4 - 5 Nov, 2026

Myth and Mystery with Barbara Hannigan · Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Oct 30, 2026

Bruce Liu, piano · The Royal Conservatory of Music

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