Paris / France

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

October 20 – 20:00

    Webern: Five movements for Strings op. 5
    Beethoven: Violin Concerto
    Webern: Symphonie op. 21
    Beethoven: Symphony N.8

    Alena Baeva – violin

Bucharest / Rumania

The Romanian Athenaeum

George Enescu Philharmonic and Choir

October 22 – 19:00

    Brahms: Schicksalslied op. 54
    Britten: Cello Symphony 0p.68
    Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30

    Julia Hagen – cello

BBC Music Magazine: Mahler 5th Symphony 2026

24 August 2026

The sense of discovery charges up the entire performance making for edge-of-seat-listening that keeps the impact fresh. If you think Abbado, Haitink and Bernstein are enough for a Mahler Five in your library, do add this one. David Nice, BBC...

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FAZ – Mahler Academy Orchestra 2024

10 February 2026

The name Philipp von Steinaecker is one to remember. (…) The polyphony of lament, rage, and despair—so vividly present, for example, in the first movement—here crashes over the listener in stirring complexity. Even the slightest gradations of dynamics, the most...

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Tagesspiegel – Mahler Chamber Orchestra 2025

08 February 2026

Steinaecker plays out this high-wire act with courage and conviction, pushing it to the very edge without ever letting the thread snap…. He and the MCO do not shy away from the abyssal shadows lurking beneath the supposed idyll, and...

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