PROFIL - G HAENSSLER

It is very rarely in the music world that two artists who have each had an impressive international solo career go on to form a partnership of equals. The collaboration between Zino Francescatti and...

In celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven's anniversary year, Helmuth Rilling, alongside the Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, present these brilliant recordings of the...

Friedrich Gulda was born in Vienna on May 16, 1930. He began his musical education at the Grossmann Conservatory and subsequently took private lessons from Felix Pazofsky. From 1942 to 1947 he...

The pupil Beethoven was here! - the young piano virtuoso Ignaz Moscheles caught sight of this sentence in block letters on a note in the house of his teacher Antonio Salieri, Kapellmeister to the...

Essentially, in the incredible ease and naturalness of his pianism, in the unassuming simplicity and absorption of the man, Backhaus was much the same artist and personality then. And he was far from...

Klaus Tennstedt was undoubtedly one of the most successful German conductors pursuing an international career. Although he also held many important positions and did a lot of conducting in Germany,...

Beethoven's piano output alone is enormous and arguably the greatest collection of all, and surely it's most remarkable feature is the sheer variety of expression. Among the 32 Sonatas you will not...

The Hungarian violinist Johanna Martzy was born in Temesvr, then in Hungary, today in Romania, on October 26, 1924, and was hailed as a wunderkind. At the age of seven, she became the last pupil to...

Being able to release my first solo CD with the h?nssler CLASSIC label is simply fantastic. The assembled works on this CD reflect my musical focus. The juxtaposition of globally renowned and beloved...

Van Cliburn (1934-2013) was the first American contestant ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and he did it in 1958 - right in the middle of the "Cold War". His victory...

Clara Haskil was throughout her life a sensitive, empathetic and intelligent pianist with enormous expressive power. At the same time she was particularly modest: she was able to subordinate herself...

Joseph Keilberth (1908-1968) belongs to that generation of conductors who continued after Furtwangler's death to hold the musical heritage of German and Austrian composers in particularly high regard...