Sarah's Music: Contemporary Classical

Sarah delves into the Sarah´s Music archives with editor Kevin to find and share some of her favourite moments so far. But how to choose? There are so many! See which moments she selects in this special episode.

Sarah delves into the Sarah's Music archives with editor Kevin to find and share some of her favourite moments so far. But how to choose? There are so many! See which moments she selects in this special episode.

Sarah spends the day backstage at Chicago The Musical at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. She meets the cast and musicians and finds out how a musical theater prepares to perform one of the most successful musicals.

Sarah Willis spends a day at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin watching the rehearsals for everyone´s favourite Christmas ballet, the Nutcracker. She meets the choreographers, the dancers, the Nutcracker and a couple of mice…

Sarah's beloved instrument, the French Horn, is Germany's Instrument of the Year. In this episode she shows how the animal horn evolved to the concert stage instrument...with help of a rhino and 70 horn players!

Sarah is in Vienna to discover the secrets of the Viennese Waltz. Expert dance instructor Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer sweeps her off her feet and live waltzes are provided by the ensemble The Philharmonics.

Sarah spends the day backstage at Chicago The Musical at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. She meets the cast and musicians and finds out how a musical theater prepares to perform one of the most successful musicals of all time.

In this episode of Sarah´s Music, Sarah talks to star musicians Sol Gabetta and Daishin Kashimoto at this year´s Beethovenfest in Bonn about what makes classical chamber music so magical - for the musicians and the audience!

Beethoven is for all ages as we see in this episode which is especially for Sarah´s younger viewers. She visits his birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn with some friends and shows us excerpts from one of her children´s concerts.

Find out in this episode of Sarah´s Music what it feels and sounds like to experience a concert at the heart of the orchestra. The `Mittendrin´ ('right in the middle') concert series at the Konzerthaus in Berlin show us exactly that!