Sarah's Music: Contemporary Classical

The Lufthansa Orchestra is made up of Lufthansa pilots, flight attendants, technicians, office staff and more who all love playing their instruments and meet 2-3 times a year for some very special concerts.

The Russian star pianist Daniil Trifonov is one of today´s greatest musicians. Sarah Willis meets him in Hamburg, finds out how he chooses a piano for important concerts and is thrilled to hear him live for the first time.

Sarah meets one of today´s greatest musicians, the Russian star pianist Daniil Trifonov. She finds out how he chooses a piano for important concerts and is thrilled to hear him live for the first time.

The German National Youth Orchestra is on tour in Germany with talented young musicians aged 14 -19. Sarah Willis is delighted to spend time with them and reminisce about how wonderful it is to play in a youth orchestra.

Romantic music, scary music, relaxing music - music affects us all in one way or another, and is apparently very good for us! Sarah Willis finds out how and why with the help of Dr. Eckart Altenmüller - one of the world´s leading music physiologists.

Reknowned Lieder duo Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake share with Sarah their insider´s look at Franz Schubert´s famous song cycle "Winter´s Journey" during a performance for the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin.

Sarah and the team go to the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, Germany to meet scientists who are using the latest MRI and Motion Capture methods to find out exactly what goes on inside a musician's body while playing an instrument. Sarah talks to kinesiology professor Peter Iltis, head of the MRI department in Göttingen, Prof. Jens Frahm and motion capture specialist Erwin Schoonderwaldt.

From New York to Japan to Australia - wherever Sarah and her horn go, she makes an episode of Sarah´s Music about it. See some of Sarah´s favorite locations she has visited during the making of the program so far.

From New York to Japan to Australia - wherever Sarah Willis and her horn go, she makes an episode of Sarah´s Music about it. See some of her favorite locations she has visited during the making of the program so far.

Sarah talks to the acclaimed opera and theatre director Peter Sellars about staging classical music during his production of Debussy´s opera 'Pelleas and Melisande' in the Berlin Philharmonie.