Hong Kong Sinfonietta has named its German principal guest conductor Christoph Poppen as its new music director. The appointment, delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, comes two years after Yip Wing-sie ...

Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...

It’s batons at the ready for the first Hong Kong International Conducting Competition, with some of the world’s most talented young musicians set to descend on the city for the classical showdown next ...

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On Monday, conductor Christoph Poppen, pianist Luo Wei, and the China National Symphony Orchestra staged a concert at the Beijing Concert Hall to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Robert Schumann's ...

The spread of COVID-19 in Korea couldn't stop Christoph Poppen, a German conductor and violinist, from coming to Korea to orchestrate Lotte's new summer classical festival. He spent two weeks in a ...

The chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 4, Christ Lag in Todesbanden, was the nugget that was supposedly hidden in the Ciaccona from Bach's Partita in D Minor. That formed the basis of ...

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Niek Baar, Violin German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Christoph Poppen, Conductor Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 Niek Baar, Violin German Radio Philharmonic ...

Baroque composers were fond of concealing coded references and sly musical quotations in their work, and few did it with as much craft and zeal as Bach. Musicologists have long marveled at the many ...