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 ...

Fences were mended in later years – it was in Leipzig that Brahms conducted his own Second Symphony for the first time – but it is a curious fact that during the last century the Gewandhaus Orchestra ...

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly performs Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor, Op 25 with Saleem Abboud Ashkar (piano), and Mahler's Symphony No 10 (compl Cooke) ...

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.

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 ...