‘A tiny, tiny piano concerto with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo,’ wrote Johannes Brahms jokingly in his letter to Elisabeth von Herzogenberg. It was July 1881, more than two decades after the infamous failure of his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor...

A leading symphony ensemble in Northern Germany, the resident orchestra of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg is the shaper not only of the profile of a great concert venue, but also of today’s classical music scene thanks to the internationally...

László Tihanyi is a composer who is also a leading figure in the Hungarian music scene as an educator and conductor. With almost a hundred compositions, his oeuvre is a towering accomplishment of the past four decades. In recent years, he has...