Peter and the Wolf (Text adapted by Marin Alsop) by S. Prokofiev, from Snape Maltings Concert Hall, 2018. Conductor Marin Alsop, starring Marin Alsop and Britten-pears Orchestra. Performed in English and subtitled in German, French and Korean.

"The final scene from Richard Strauss’ Rosenkavalier alone carries the audience blissfully heavenwards. At this Benefit Gala from the Cologne Opera, this wonderfully romantic piece is only one of the outstanding moments of music featured. Two hours of distinguished opera from Verdi to Wagner, in ...

Written and presented by Sir Simon Rattle, the foremost British conductor of our day, this series forms a fascinating introduction to, and overview of, the music of the twentieth century. Each of the seven programmes feature over thirty minutes of specially-shot music in performance, with Rattle ...

Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and Evgeny Kissin (piano) perform L. Beethoven's op. 47, Violin Sonata no. 9 "Kreutzer." Performed as part of the Verbier Festival.

Recorded live from the Herkulessaal Munich, Sir Colin Davis conducts the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, with soloist Gidon Kremer, in a performance of Alban Berg‘s elegiac Violin Concerto. Alban Berg completed this concerto for violin and orchestra in 1935, impelled by the news of the d...

Yefim Bronfman and the Verbier Festival Orchestra perform J. Brahms' op. 83 Piano Concerto no. 2 in B♭ major. Conducted by Antonio Pappano as part of the Verbier Festival.

The highlight of the celebrations in March 1987 during the fifth anniversary of the opening of the London Barbican Centre was the concert of the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir George Solti. The special event was held to celebrate the creation of a cultural centre and a residential complex wh...

Andante & Variations; J.S. Bach: Concerto for 2 Keyboards BWV1062 (Verbier 2019 - Programme No. 10) by R. Schumann and J.S. Bach, from Verbier Festival, performed at Salle des Combins, Verbier, 2019. Conductor Gabor Takács-Nagy, starring Daniil Trifonov,Sergei Babayan.

Under the baton of Gábor Takács-Nagy, the Verbier Festival Orchestra performs R. Schumann's op. 28 Symphony no. 1 and pianist András Schiff performs J.S. Bach's Italienisches Konzert mvt. 1 (BWV 971). They join together to perform J. Brahms' op. 15, Piano Concerto no. 1. Performed as part of the ...

Four delightful performance programmes feature the leading international chamber orchestra which specialises in authentic renditions on fine reproduction period instruments.

Bach’s orchestral suites (BWV 1066-9), No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B minor, and Nos 3 and 4 in D major, were recorded in the ma...

Four delightful performance programmes feature the leading international chamber orchestra which specialises in authentic renditions on fine reproduction period instruments.

Bach’s orchestral suites (BWV 1066-9), No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B minor, and Nos 3 and 4 in D major, were recorded in the ma...

Four delightful performance programmes feature the leading international chamber orchestra which specialises in authentic renditions on fine reproduction period instruments.

Bach’s orchestral suites (BWV 1066-9), No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B minor, and Nos 3 and 4 in D major, were recorded in the ma...

Four delightful performance programmes feature the leading international chamber orchestra which specialises in authentic renditions on fine reproduction period instruments.

Bach’s orchestral suites (BWV 1066-9), No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B minor, and Nos 3 and 4 in D major, were recorded in the ma...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passion oratorios are pinnacles of achievement in a long history of musical portrayals of Jesus of Nazareth’s crucifixion. In these works the composer combines all the means at his disposal, drawing on cantata, oratorio and opera. Yet the active history of this Passion mus...

The Dutch-based Begijnhof Academy is an ensemble of international musicians and singers who specialise in the performance of baroque music. In this recording, their musical director, Roderick Shaw, conducts performances of Henry Purcell's My Heart is Inditing and Francisco Valls' Missa Scala Aret...

Under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse performs S. Prokofiev's "Romeo et Juliette" and the Interlude of the 3rd Act and Overture of G. Bizet's Carmen.

Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century consists of some forty-five musicians and the structure is based on the 'luxury' orchestras that flourished in Mannheim, Paris and Vienna in the eighteenth century. Specialising in the music of that era, the orchestra uses period instruments or ...

Beethoven Symphony no. 6 in F major, Pastoral, op. 68, from Opéra national de Paris, 2014. Conductor Philippe Jordan.

Beethoven is the alpha and omega of the symphonic repertoire: a repertoire crucial to any orchestra’s quality. However my orchestra at the Paris Opera had never played the Beethoven symphonies before.“ (Philippe Jordan) This Edition contains all Beethoven Symphonies with the Orchestra and Chorus ...

"For a long time Beethoven was unsure whether he ought to write a choral symphony or not, before deciding to use Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’ for the last movement of his 9th symphony. He could not know that this work would be his last symphony, and that ‘nine’ would always be regarded as a ‘fateful n...

Maestro Celibidache (1912-96) was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of making recordings because he feared they misrepresented his musical intentions. This concert from the Herkule...

Carnival of the Animals by C.Saint-Saëns, from Snape Maltings Concert Hall, 2018. Conductor Marin Alsop, starring various artists. Performed in English and subtitled in German, French and Korean.

Recorded live from the Philharmonie in Munich, Sir Colin Davis conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for this performance of Mahler's great song symphony.

Under the baton of Daniel Harding, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks performs E. Elgar's Overture from "Dream of Gerontius," J. Brahms' Symphony no. 4, and E. Elgar's op. 36 Enigma Variations "Nimrod." Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder joins them to perform L. Beethoven's op. 19 Piano Conc...