This was the last motet to ring out in the Church of St. Thomas to date. The musical city of Leipzig has fallen quiet. The city’s Gewandhaus Orchestra is not playing either, though it had particularly ...

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond including Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Schubert’s ‘Great’ Symphony No. 9.

The BBC Proms 2025, set to run from July 18 to September 13, promises to be a spectacular celebration of classical music, ...

Other visiting European orchestras include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which performs two concerts in the final week of the season with Riccardo Chailly (1 & 2 September), and the Gustav ...

27 pianists from 13 countries are hoping to win over the jury and the public. The best three will face off in the final at a concert in Leipzig's Gewandhaus.

Proms season runs from 18 July to 13 September, with a programme featuring world premieres, visiting international orchestras, landmark anniversaries, and the festival’s first overnight Prom in more t ...

In his 65 years Bach composed hundreds of works for the royal courts and churches where he was employed, as well as many more secular concert and orchestra ... at Leipzig’s monumental Gewandhaus ...

In 1970 he became kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, serving in that post until 1996. In 1991 he succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYP ...

He worked with a number of German orchestras before heading – concurrently – the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1922-28) and the Berlin Philharmonic (1922-45, and 1952-54). He remained in Nazi Germany ...