As Franz Grillparzer is supposed to have said once: «Music described is like a lunch recounted». But have you ever talked to a passionate chef about food? In the «Backstage» series you are often given the chance to listen to great musicians talking about their approach to music – and in the process the listener can easily pick up some ‹secret recipes›. Yet «Backstage» is not just about «music described» – far from it: a wide variety of events accompanying the concert programme open up a host of paths leading the listener into the multifarious world of music. Watch Agostino Ferrente’s film, which made the Piazza Vittorio Orchestra famous; learn more about the theatre in London around 1700; or compare the piece you have just heard with pictures and graphics of the composer. The «Backstage» events are always free of charge, yet not infrequently produced at great expense: one example of this is the thematic music-listening evenings in partnership with Fono Forum, offering a chance to enjoy an exciting comparison of performances ranging over the hundred-year history of recording – what did the piece to be played in the concert sound like when Toscanini or Celibidache was on the podium? The «Backstage» programme turns the discovery of music into a delight.