The flamboyant Cameron Carpenter takes on two musical monuments daringly arranged by himself: Mussorgsky’s phantasmagorias and Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the alpha and omega of his oeuvre.

Over the years, the Orchestre de Paris has developed a close artistic partnership with American conductor Karina Canellakis, who counts French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras among her preferred soloists in the concerto repertoire

Marina Chiche and Sodi Braide’s inquisitive approach to Beethoven brings together four figures from the American and English music worlds, including three women composers whose renown continues to grow year by year.

A Tchaikovsky immersion: in a selection of his symphonic and concertante works, Orchestre Consuelo and its conductor Victor Julien-Laferrière offer a fresh perspective on the Russian composer, making these pieces seem written just for them.

From a recital by an Aphrodite on the eve of Valentine’s Day, one might expect a classic ode to romantic love, but singer Aphrodite Patoulidou has something else in mind.

A concert celebrating youth, in both its performers and composers. Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski, not yet 25, has already won the hearts of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, which appointed him as its music director last September.

William Christie directs two titans of sacred music: Mozart’s Litaniae Lauretanae, described by Albert Einstein as ‘a marvel of art and youth’, followed by Harmoniemesse, one of Haydn’s most imposing compositions.

Ravel’s oeuvre includes only a few pieces written for choir, but his music seems to call to the voice. Many a composer have dabbled in the vocal transcription of his works—allowing us to rediscover them in a new light.

The new star of British cello Sheku Kanneh-Mason takes on Shostakovich’s formidable Concerto No. 1, before conductor Semyon Bychkov and the venerable Czech Philharmonic tackle the composer’s most famous symphony.

The Orchestre National de Lille makes a vibrant plea against the scourge of antisemitism. Evoking the victims of the past, this programme reminds us that, in the words of Bertolt Brecht, ‘the belly is still fertile from which the foul beast sprang’.

With the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, its musical director the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, and the music of John Adams—which he sometimes performs alongside the composer—Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is on friendly turf.

After the poetry and insight brought by Emanuel Ax to Beethoven's admirable Concerto No.4, Nathalie Stutzmann takes us into the enchanted depths of Wagner's Ring, a “total art work" from which pure orchestral gems emerge.

This musical tale of ‘Mahaut, the wooden girl’, staged by the musicians of De Caelis and the mask and puppet company Le Carrosse d'Or, explores visual and musical imagery of the Middle Ages and questions of identity, legitimacy, filiation and love.

Gautier Capuçon, a leading figure in the cello world, joins forces with six former laureates of his Classe d’ Excellence, many of whom have become sought-after soloists, together forming a unique ensemble of cellists: the Capucellis.

Everyone is invited to keep up the tempo with this concert that's as rich as it is unbridled! A joyful introduction to rhythm and movement thanks to musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, the Youth Choir and body percussion. 

Three consummate performers deliver a programme of gems from the Romance-speaking world: a four hands piece by two Brazilian guitar icons and a work by Italian composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco, followed by the emblematic Concerto d’Aranjuez.

Performed by the musicians of Concerto Köln and the Dresdner Festspielorchester under the direction of Kent Nagano, this Siegfried is the fruit of years of research into what would be a historically informed reading of Wagner’s operas.

The duo formed by Janine Jansen and Denis Kozhukhin in a programme juxtaposing Brahms—a composer particularly close to their hearts—with a selection of 20th-century French chamber music.

Three winners of the third edition of the La Maestra competition for female conductors perform alongside Claire Gibault, the driving force behind this initiative to promote women in music.

For Easter Monday, Bach’s Oratorio for the holiday written exactly 300 years ago. Conductor Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques in a score they know well.

For the most English of German-born composers, these intimate arias composed between 1724 and 1726 were an ode to his origins. A concentrate of grace, with Les Arts Florissants and soloists Rowan Pierce and James Way.

In response to the Brahmsian drama, marked by mystery and wildness, we have one of Sibelius's most optimistic compositions. And between the two, these last songs, which are not just those of Strauss's, but a “farewell” to Romantic song.

A long-awaited collaboration between celebrated French violinist Renaud Capuçon and the always-ambitious piano virtuoso Igor Levit. Together, they tackle Brahms’s three Sonatas for Violin and Piano—a concentration of poetry, brilliance and heroism.

The vibrant classicism of Strauss, the leaping energy of a Bernstein more “Broadway” than ever, the serenity of Saariaho and the most jolly of Shostakovich’s Symphonies... a program with four faces of joy.

With Léo Warynski conducting, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Les Métaboles present a monograph on Francesco Filidei, who has established himself in the last decade as one of the foremost figures in Italian musical creation today.

Grating death, parodied death, omnipotent death, death staved off by art: this program invites us to a veritable musical “thanatography”, in which Ullmann's score, rescued from the Nazi terror, preludes Mozart's timeless masterpiece.

Jordi Savall conducts one of Schumann’s major works, which was a great success at its premiere in 1843: rarely in the romantic composer’s oeuvre does the voice resound with such tenderness and fervour as in as in Paradise and the Peri. 

For two exceptional evenings, guest composer Thierry Escaich in person performs on the organ. A tribute to Bach, the God of Music, this program also takes us to Shakespeare and the Eternal City.

With singer Ralph Thamar, among other musicians, percussionist David Donatien orchestrates a concert in homage to Martinican pianist and composer Marius Cultier, a legendary star of Caribbean jazz.

Quatuor Hermès, one of the foremost quartets of its generation, joined by Mathilde Caldérini on flute and Constance Luzzati on harp, pay tribute to three women composers born in the 19th century and too long overlooked.

After the captivating command of Sol Gabetta in Shostakovich, Tugan Sokhiev turns to Bruckner’s spellbinding Seventh Symphony, whose unique lyrical charm is in the best of hands with the Dresden Staatskapelle.

The Neojiba Orchestra presents a festive programme: after the fireworks of the Labenque sisters in Poulenc’s delightful Concerto for Two Pianos, the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story explode with rhythm and colour.

Oscillating freely between circus, dance and theatre, François Chat practices the art of juggling like a true magician. With Métamorphoses, he creates a series of captivating moving tableaux on stage, based on solo piano pieces by Philip Glass.

With En Masse, its show featuring ten acrobats and three musicians, the innovative Australian company Circa has crafted a stunning stage creation about human relationships, musically structured around pieces by Schubert and Stravinsky.

The high-flying duo formed by Jonas Kaufmann and Diana Damrau continue their exploration of the Germanic repertoire, accompanied on piano by lieder master Helmut Deutsch.

This concert by Ensemble Intercontemporain, presented as part of IRCAM’s ManiFeste Festival, draws inspiration from a whole series of visual artists, such as Vassili Kandinsky, Derek Jarman, Willem de Kooning and Joan Miró.