Saarbrücken, Germany
The Großer Sendesaal of Saarländischer Rundfunk is the main concert hall of the public broadcaster SR, located on its Halberg campus in Saarbrücken. Built in the mid-20th century, it serves as the home stage of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and hosts classical concerts, recordings and live broadcasts.
A chamber music evening featuring works by Ravel, Debussy and Frank Bridge, with harp, winds and strings combining in a rich variety of textures and colours.
The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie devotes an evening to the trumpet, with Robert Hofmann, Hagen Rauscher and Joachim Schröder leading a programme that spans Vivaldi, Telemann, Mendelssohn, Haydn and Charles Ives.
Members of the Skrowaczewski Academy perform Haydn's String Quartet, Dvořák's Quintet, and Brahms's String Sextet No. 2 - an evening of chamber music at the SR Grosser Sendesaal.
The Metz Grand Est orchestra performs works by Debussy, Britten and Elgar under conductor Harry Ogg, with tenor Cyrille Dubois. The concert is broadcast live on SR kultur radio.
The music podcast "Interpretationssache" live: Roland Kunz and musicians from Hochschule für Musik Saar explore Sting's compositions and a traditional Christmas song, uncovering their musical origins and interpretations.
A chamber concert featuring wind music by Rosetti, Enescu, Janáček and Dvořák, performed by a large ensemble of soloists - a programme rooted in the Bohemian-Moravian wind tradition.
Conductor Patrick Hahn trades his baton for the piano and performs the sardonic, darkly comic songs of Georg Kreisler in an evening of sharp Austrian cabaret.
The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, conductor Patrick Hahn and tenor Matteo Ivan Rašić perform a Christmas programme featuring works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Bach, Handel and others.