My Life with Wagner by Christian Thielemann, translated by Anthea Bell 320pp, W&N, £25, eBook £16.99. To order this book from the Telegraph for £20 plus £1.99 p&p, call 0844 871 1515 or visit ...

Christian Thielemann extracts great force from his orchestra for an atmospheric performance of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen . Composer: Wagner Repertoire: Der Ring des Nibelungen Artists: Soloists ...

Tom Service presents this week's programme, including a feature on the American experimental composer Morton Feldman, and a review of conductor Christian Thielemann's book 'My Life with Wagner ...

Intoxicating music Hans Christoph von Bock / gsw 06/12/2013 June 12, 2013. Christian Thielemann has been called the the world's foremost living Wagner conductor. In Dresden, he spoke with Hans ...

Our host Peter Craven speaks with Christian Thielemann about conducting, community and culture in crisis. Christian Thielemann recently celebrated his 50th birthday and is one of the most sought ...

Berlin has appointed Christian Thielemann as the next music director at the city’s State Opera, inheriting the baton from an ailing Daniel Barenboim. A Wagner specialist, Thielemann had first ...

Video – Christian Thielemann on Tristan und Isolde: 'I keep it at arm's length. It only gets as close to me as I let it' Gramophone Tuesday, July 26, 2016 A fascinating insight into the conductor's ...

Thielemann's book, My Life with Wagner, written with the German journalist Christine Lemke-Matwey and now translated into English, highlights the knotty, unresolved questions, which all music ...