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 ...

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond including Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Schubert’s ‘Great’ Symphony No. 9.

In 1978, the late Kurt Masur’s Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra became the first to perform a cycle of the composer’s symphonies. Now, fifty years on from Shostakovich’s death, Leipzig will go a good few ...

When his colleagues in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra go on summer break, the cellist Matthias Schreiber will be sitting in the orchestra pit of the Bayreuth Festival. Instead of a holiday, a ...

Bach Competition, 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.

Plus the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs a pair of symphonies by Mozart, including his famous final 'Jupiter' Symphony - No. 41.

Riccardo Chaillys inaugural concert as Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in September 2005 was a feast of music by Mendelssohn the orchestras first conductor Capturing the full ...

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 ...