That was around 10 years ago. Now 97, Blomstedt is the oldest active major orchestral conductor in the world and a frequent ...

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 ...

When his colleagues in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra go on summer break, the cellist Matthias Schreiber will be sitting in the orchestra pit of the Bayreuth Festival. Instead of a holiday, a ...

As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra perform at the Proms, novelist Philip Kerr and historian Karen Leeder from the University of Oxford talk about East and West Germany, their differences and ...

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 ...

Leipzig, a city rich in cultural and musical history, is a must-visit destination in eastern Germany. Known as the home of iconic composers like Bach and Mendelssohn, the city offers landmarks such as ...

Thalia Petrosian plays the viola in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the world, and conducts various classical music projects in Europe. Credit: Jens Gerber Discover ...

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 ...