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Five Things I Learned About Love in Bergen
The Bergen International Festival promised »endless love«. I listened closely – and found it everywhere from medieval madrigals to pop ballads spanning the centuries.
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Oh, to Lose Yourself in Moers
The German Moers Festival is no longer primarily a jazz festival, but a curated laboratory for free improvisation, sound art, compositional music, and political absurdism. At times it feels forced. Most of the time, it is liberating.
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When Music Stopped Explaining Itself
Klang Festival was at its strongest when the works spoke directly to the body rather than to the programme notes. Not everything succeeded, but this year's festival was willing to take risks.
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While Europe's Jazz Searches for New Languages
At Jazzkaar, international stars are no longer the main attraction. Instead, the festival offers a glimpse of an Estonian scene in the process of shaping its own musical identity.
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In a Forest Without a Path
Niels Rønsholdt’s new music-theatre work »Osmosis« creates a compelling universe of inverted trees, yearning voices, and rock-inflected asceticism. Yet the work’s central idea remains elusive.
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From Coal Dust to Sound Art
Contemporary music is still alive – but often despite its own obsession with complexity and endless duration. That became clear at the festivals in Witten and Cologne.
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In Aarhus, Music Refused to Stay in Its Lane
While the industry talked about AI and formats, it was the bodily, fragile, and defiant musical experiences that lingered at Spot 2026.
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In the Silence Between Voices
Marina Abramović, Miranda July and Laurie Anderson explore sound, body and absence at Nørrebro Teater – but only one work truly transforms emptiness into experience.
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From Cringe to Cosmos – and Back Again
Spor 2026 took its audience from embarrassed laughter to resonant sonic landscapes in a festival that both transgressed boundaries and overwhelmed the senses.
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Verdi in the War Zone
SØS Gunver Ryberg blows Verdi apart from within in a fierce and sensuous Jeanne d’Arc, where the beauty of opera collides with the noise of war and the fractures of the present.
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In the Shadow of Pärt
Estonian Music Days revealed a musical culture caught between tradition, renewal, and a restless world.
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It Sounded Wild – But Did it Last?
MaerzMusik in Berlin opened with 50 pianos – and bold experiments that didn't always land.