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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leipzig Opera, Europe's third oldest such venue, enjoys globally renowned reputation shaped by supreme soloists, award-winning choir, prominent ballet company and Gewandhaus Orchestra, soundest of ...