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Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs accentus at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival

Laurence Equilbey conducts Handel's "Messiah" at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Handel's Messiah

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The Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival has invited paino legend Elisabeth Leonskaja to perform two sonatas by Franz Schubert in front of a lucky audience at the Grand Théâtre de Provence.

Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja presents two Schubert sonatas in Aix-en-Provence.

Elisabeth Leonskaja performs Schubert

For its opening concert, the 2024 Festival Présences pays tribute to Steve Reich. The event features conductor George Jackson, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Synergy Vocals choir and Hae-Sun Kang with Héloïse Werner.

Présences Festival 2024

Radio France celebrates contemporary music and creativity with the Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Tribute to Steve Reich

Conductor and soprano Barbara Hannigan performs three luminous pieces: Igor Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 90 and the suite from George Gershwin's Girl Crazy.

Ludwigsburg 2021

Barbara Hannigan performs luminous works by Igor Stravinsky, Joseph Haydn and George Gershwin.

Barbara Hannigan

The Orchestre de Paris invites pianist Yuja Wang for a special concert conducted by Klaus Mäkelä bringing together works by Debussy, Ravel and Bartók. 

With Yuja Wang

Colour and emotion from the Orchestre de Paris playing classics by Ravel, Debussy and Bartók.

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris

Bach and minimalist music meet under the fingers of pianist Shani Diluka in a special concert for ARTE Concert's Piano Day at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Piano Day 2023

Shani Diluka combines Bach with minimalist music on the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris.

Shani Diluka

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The Finnish Radio Orchestra conducted by Duncan Ward presents a variety of works from across different periods, including a contemporary work by South African cellist Abel Selaocoe. This musical epic takes in the overture of Mozart's Magic Flute as well as the romanticism of Mendelssohn, South Afrtican spiritual fervour and the minimalism of Arvo Pärt.

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra presents a variety of major works in Helsinki under the direction of Duncan Ward and Nicholas Collon.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

No maestros here, only maestras: We showcase some of the most notable female conductors working in music today. Whether they be established names, pioneers or rising stars taking part in the La Maestra competition, delve into this series of concerts to discover each of their singular visions. 

Female conductors

Pioneers, rising stars and promising talent: These are some of the most notable female conductors working today.

Generation Maestras

Considered one of the greatest composers in the history of music, Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Discover these great classics, from the St. Matthew Passion to the Goldberg Variations.

Bach the Baroque Superstar

Baroque

Immerse yourself in your chosen cinematic universe with our collection of film music. Cult melodies, stirring arrangements and instantly recognisable themes that have marked the history of cinema: A symphonic feast of sound and emotion.

Classic soundtracks from cult composers

Experience the magic of film through their soundtracks: From tentpole classics to cult favourites. 

Film Music

Opera

Performing Arts

Parcourir les genres

After three days of emotion-packed competition, the three finalists in La Maestra 2024 go before the female conductor competition jury one last time. To decide between them, they will perform four dynamic pieces.

Final

Three finalists provide a grand finale to the 2024 edition of La Maestra.

La Maestra 2024

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs a programme of French and Russian works with celebrated British conductor John Eliot Gardiner and acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust.
Programme:
Emmanuel Chabrier - Suite pastorale
 Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D
 Emmanuel Chabrier - España
 Claude Debussy – Images

With Isabelle Faust

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs a programme of French and Russian works with celebrated British conductor John Eliot Gardiner and acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust.

John Eliot Gardiner Conducts Chabrier, Stravinsky and Debussy

It's almost time for the final of La Maestra 2024... In order to excel in this final round, the three remaining candidates each have one hour to rehearse with the Paris Mozart Orchestra.

Rehearsals for the Final

The final stretch before the final of La Maestra 2024.

Seven candidates remain in the running for the semi-finals of La Maestra 2024. Here three of them compete for entry into the final, each having to conduct a concerto and a vocal work before a jury of experts.

Semi-final (Part One)

The pressure is mounting: Three female conductors compete for a place in the final of La Maestra 2024.

Of the fourteen female conductors taking part in the 2024 edition of La Maesta, seven are still in the running. Follow this second part of the semi-final, where four candidates must shine in front of the judges by conducting a concerto and a vocal work.

Semi-final (Part Two)

Four more La Maestra 2024 candidates make it through to the semi-finals.

It's the opening of the 2024 edition of the La Maestra competition for female conductors and seven candidates from across the world are competing in the quarter-finals. In order to get to the next round they must impress the judges with performances of Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Rossini and Prokofiev.

Quarter Final (Part One)

The first day of the 2024 edition of La Maestra, an international competition for female conductors.

Second round for the quarter-finals of La Maestra 2024. Discover seven new conductors performing works by Mozart, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Rossini and Prokofiev.

Quarter Final (Part Two)

The quarter-finals of La Maestra 2024 continue. Seven new candidates are here to demonstrate their talent.

The Rhineland-Palatinate Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Michael Francis, presents a cosmic concert amidst the aircraft at the Speyer Museum of Technology. On the program: Richard Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Gustav Holst's "The Planets".

Speyer Museum of Technology

A cosmic concert of Richard Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Gustav Holst's "The Planets".

Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst

Sur Mesure invites the Zaïde quartet to pair with beatmaker Luka Austin to soundtrack Hendrickx Ntela's dance moves at Royaumont Abbey. A unique meeting between romantic music, krump and Cistercian architecture.

Paris Sur Mesure 2023

A unique meeting of Romantic music, krump dance and Cistercian architecture.

Quatuor Zaïde | Luka Austin | Hendrickx Ntela

France Musique brings together artists of all stripes and nationalities at Radio France's Studio 104 for a concert in support of the Ukrainian people.

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

A concert mixing jazz, classical and traditional music bringing all kinds of music together in support of the Ukrainian people.

Concert in support of the Ukrainian people

To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Maurice Jarre's birth, Bastien Stil and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France revisit the filmography of this great composer of film music.

Soundtracks by Maurice Jarre

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France celerates a hundred years since the birth of composer Maurice Jarre.

Lawrence of Arabia

Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester pay tribute to Béla Bartók at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. The highlight of the Hungarian composer's oeuvre, his Piano Concerto No. 3, here played by Igor Levit, sits between the Divertimento for string orchestra and his Concerto for orchestra. These pieces reflect the personality of Bartók's work well, a style that has room for dissonance as well as traditional music influences.

Kosmos Bartók Festival 2024

Igor Levit and Alan Gilbert play Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Concerto for Orchestra.

Alan Gilbert and Igor Levi

Conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve and his Vox Clamantis choir give a special performance for the 30th edition of La Folle Journée: An a cappella concert featuring works by Duruflé, Bruckner, Pärt and Von Bingen, as well as Gregorian chants. Including Arvo Part was a natural choice seeing as Jaan-Eik Tulve and Vox Clamantis also come from Estonia. Four works by the immense Baltic composer fill the Cité des Congrès de Nantes auditorium: Missa syllabica, Nunc dimittis, Da pacem, Domine and And I Heard a Voice, sitting next to other works like an excerpt from Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens by Maurice Duruflé, Gloria by Helena Tulve (performed for the first time in France) and O ignis Spiritus by Hildegarde Von Bingen.

La Folle Journée de Nantes 2024

A concert dedicated to a cappella singing, under the baton of Jaan-Eik Tulve.

Jaan-Eik Tulve with Vox Clamantis

Pianist Tanguy de Williencourt joins forces with the Modigliani Quartet to perform Dvorák's Quintet for Piano and Strings in A major, Op. 81 at La Folle Journée de Nantes.

Dvorák's Quintet for piano and strings in A major at La Folle Journée de Nantes.

Tanguy de Williencourt and the Modigliani Quartet

Conductors Beatriz Fernández Aucejo and Claire Gibault co-direct an exceptional concert, building a bridge between two generations and two countries.

Claire Gibault & Beatriz Fernández Aucejo

The Paris Mozart Orchestra plays Brahms and Dvořák under the batons of two female conductors.

Nova Mondo

Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Ensemble Intercontemporain join forces to celebrate peace through music. A humanist concert featuring the music of Bach and a collection of new compositions.

A hymn for peace

Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Ensemble Intercontemporain play for peace.

Ensemble Intercontemporain & Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Shortly after the Russian Revolution, Finland declared its independence on 6 December 1917. Every year on this National Day, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra traditionally gives its annual Independence Day concert. The 2023 lineup festures star violinist Pekka Kuusisto playing a selection of great Finnish composers: Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and, of course, Jean Sibelius.

Independence Day Concert

Three eminent Finnish composers are on the programme for the annual Finnish Independence Day concert, featuring Pekka Kuusisto.

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Colour and emotion from l'Orchestre de Paris playing classics by Ravel, Debussy and Bartók.

Klaus Mäkelä conducts l'Orchestre de Paris

Julien Chauvin and the Concert de la Loge perform works by Vivaldi and Mozart in the famous Cour Marly at the Musée du Louvre, featuring mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and violist Amihai Grosz.

An evening at the Musée du Louvre

Julien Chauvin and the Concert de la Loge perform live at the Musée du Louvre.

Vivaldi and Mozart in the Cour Marly

Orchestre de Paris maestro Klaus Mäkelä conducts a selection of pieces from Shostakovitch and Walton, highlighting the jazz explorations of both composers. Sol Gabetta accompanies for Shostakovich’s poignant Concerto No.2, filled with restrained tension, while the rhythmic, poppier elements of Walton's Belshazzar’s Feast are brought to the fore for a spectacular biblical finale.

With Sol Gabetta and Willard White

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris for this concert bringing out the jazz elements in Shostakovitch and Walton's compositions.

Klaus Mäkelä conducts Shostakovitch and Walton

The most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Romeo Castellucci. A very special production, which promises to stir up the audience at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

A message from director Romeo Castellucci:
The action you are about to witness has the particular misfortune of containing images that, charged with violence, seem to be the cruel likeness of our near reality.
I imagined this work over a year ago.
No one could have foreseen this painful overlapping of art and reality, which today seems like an atrocious prophecy.
How to support today the unconscious exactness of these images on the stage?
But what to do in the face of the irretrievable that theatre represents?
It is essential to accept the pain produced by this concordance, in the light that Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection can represent.
Romeo Castellucci
July 2022
Recorded 13 July in Aix-en-Provence with the Orchestre de Paris and the Choir of the Orchestre de Paris.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2022

The most popular of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Romeo Castellucci. A very special production, which promises to stir up the audience at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Resurrection - Gustav Mahler

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating the city of lights: gay Paris.
Mezzo-soprano Julia Dawson, tenor Ziad Nehme and bass-baritone Douglas Williams also perform.
Programme
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella
 Kurt Weill – Youkali
 Jacques Offenbach - La Gaîté parisienne

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating the city of lights: gay Paris.

Barbara Hannigan Conducts Stravinsky and Weill

French conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann, the pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Orchestre de Paris bring the Paris Philharmonie to life with a treat of a programme.

Verdi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Nathalie Stutzmann & Alexandre Tharaud

To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, conductor Aziz Shokhakimov invites international pianist and soloist Kirill Gerstein for a special evening. The programme includes Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2, a romantic work dotted with octaves, thirds, leaps and glissandi.

Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

Pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra perform Liszt under the baton of Aziz Shokhakimov.

Liszt's Piano Concerto no. 2

The French National Orchestra, conducted by musical director Cristian Macelaru, performs French repertoire from Berlioz to Offenbach in a festive concert.

With the Orchestre Nationale de France

Grand Bal Symphonique

From Luigi Nono to Anton Webern, composers are often drawn to revisit the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Now it's the turn of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Ensemble Intercontemporain, who explore the great musician's achievements with this concert of tributes, nods and rereadings.

Quaerendo Invenietis by Bach

Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Ensemble Intercontemporain explore Bach's musical legacy.

Simone Young conducts a concert of contrasts with violinist Renaud Capuçon and the Orchestre National de France. On the programme is Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 and world premiere violin concerto by Camille Pépin.

With Violinist Renaud Capuçon

Romantic and Avant-garde: a concert of contrasts with the Orchestre National de France.

Simone Young Conducts Mahler and Camile Pépin

To inaugurate the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023-2024 season, Aziz Shokhakimov conducts an audacious interpretation of Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung in Lorin Maazel's version. A symphonic journey bringing together the main leitmotifs of the full tetralogy in one hour of glorious music.

Aziz Shokhakimov conducts the Wagner opus to open the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra's new season.

Wagner's Ring Without Words

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György Ligeti was born a hundred years ago this year. To mark this centenary and celebrate the Hungarian composer's unique legacy, François-Xavier Roth conducts his 'anti-anti-opera' Le Grand Macabre in the Radio France Auditorium.

Conducted by François-Xavier Roth

The Orchestre National de France celebrates Ligeti's centenary with a performance of his disturbing masterpiece Le Grand Macabre.

György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre

The Laureates concert at Brussels' Palais des Beaux-Arts is the undoubted highlight of the legendary Queen Elisabeth competition. This year, Taehan Kim took the top prize after impressing the judges with his stunning baritone. Second prize went to American contralto Jasmin White and third prize went to soprano Julia Muzychenko-Greenhalgh from Saint Petersburg.  

Laureates concert

The Laureates concert is the high point of this legendary competition. Taehim Kim was this year's overall winner. 

Voice 2023 - Queen Elisabeth Competition

The Frankfurt hr-Sinfonieorchester is led by Alain Altinoglu, the celebrated conductor and new artistic director of the Festival international de Colmar. Les Noces de Figaro and Mozart's famous Symphonie n° 40 are on the programme for this special evening, culminating with Richard Strauss' oboe concerto with soloist François Leleux.

Festival international de Colmar

An evening of Mozart and Strauss with chief conductor of the hr-Sinfonieorchester Alain Altinoglu and oboist François Leleux.

Alain Altinoglu conducts Mozart and Strauss

A special gala evening organised at Hanover's town hall. Cornelius Meister conducts the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time with young singers in the spotlight. Featuring soprano Nicole Car, baritone Etienne Dupuis and tenor Xabier Anduaga performing overtures, arias and duets by Mozart, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini.

Arias and overtures from Mozart to Verdi

Gala evening at the Hanover Open Air Festival with arias and overtures from famous operas from Mozart to Verdi.

Hannover Classical Open Air 2023

The cinematic, repetitive music of Polish instrumentalist Dobrawa Czocher evokes the work of Philip Glass in its textured atmospheres and deep emotion. A dreamy neoclassical highlight of the Europavox festival. 

Europavox Sessions 2023

The neoclassical dreamscapes of Polish musician Dobrawa Czocher arrive at Europavox. 

Dobrawa Czocher

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was deeply rooted in German Romanticism, appreciating those fairy tales and myths inhabited by the vision of untamed nature. His concert overture La Belle Mélusine was inspired by the medieval fairy character Mélusine. This half-princess, half-serpent marries a knight but forbids him from trying to see her in her true form.

Duncan Ward conducts the Finnish Radio Orchestra at this opening concert for Musiikkitalo in Helsinki.

Felix Mendelssohn: La Belle Melusine

Born in Estonia in 1935, Arvo Pärt composed his Symphony No. 3 while in the throes of a creative crisis. To free himself from what he saw as the impetuous Western avant-garde while also escaping Soviet regime censorship, he turned to the music of the Middle Ages and immersed himself in Gregorian chant and pre-Renaissance vocal polyphony.

Arvo Pärt composed his Symphony No. 3 in 1971, a period when he was exploring medieval music.

Arvo Pärt: Symphony No3

Three chords punctuate the overture to this masonic opera by Mozart. The number three, highly symbolic for Freemasons, is a recurring theme in The Magic Flute: There are three attendants of the Queen of the Night and three boys in Sarastro's kingdom.

The famous three-chord overture from Mozart's Masonic opera, conducted by Duncan Ward.

Mozart: Magic Flute Overture

Under the conductor's baton of Pietari Inkinen, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs works by Caplet, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov with soprano Fatma Saïd.

With Fatma Saïd

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France plays Caplet, Ravel and Rimski-Korsakov, conducted by Pietari Inkinen.

Pietari Inkinen conducting the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert dedicated to Russian music with works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.


Programme :
Scheherazade Suite, opus 35 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 

Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky

Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert dedicated to Russian music with works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky.

Tugan Sokhiev Conducts the Vienna Philharmonic

Violinist Nemanja Radulović and Electro Street Crew combine classical music and dance at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris.

Paris sur Mesure

Nemanja Radulović & Electro Street at the Jacquemart-André Museum

Conducted by Adrien Perruchon and with Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France get us in the festive spirit.
 
 
Programme:

Gioachino Rossini - L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture and  "Cruda sorte” aria
Gioachino Rossini - La pietra del paragone : " Quel dirmi, oh Dio !”
Charles Gounod - Faust: Ballet
Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne (Adagietto, Intermezzo and Farandole)
Max Reger - Maria Wiegenlied
Pietro Yon - Gesù bambino
Augusta Holmès – Trois anges sont venus ce soir
Traditionnal - Les anges dans nos campagnes
Adolphe Adam - Minuit chrétien

The French radio orchestra gives a festive concert with Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, conducted by Adrien Perruchon.

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