In the third of five DVD releases seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim plays the Piano Sonatas 14 - 21 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, the so-called ‘New Testament’ of music. Composed over twenty…

In the fourth of five DVD releases seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim plays the Piano Sonatas 22 - 28 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, the so-called ‘New Testament’ of music. Composed over…

In the last of five DVD releases seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim plays the Piano Sonatas 28-32 of Ludwig van Beethoven’s thirty-two piano sonatas, the so-called ‘New Testament’ of music. Composed over twenty…

If there is one genre of music which baritone Thomas Hampson is exceptionally passionate about, it is the lied. To Hampson, song and singing are "the diary of our existence" and he has invested a great amount of time, work and love to luring this…

“On wings of song” – Heine’s words and Mendelssohn’s immortal melody, sung here by the inimitable Rita Streich, perfectly encapsulate the spirit of this collection. Six of the greatest voices of the last half-century perform a range of familiar music…

This classic archive DVD features three outstanding representatives of the French Piano School. Vlado Perlemuter, who worked closely with Ravel on many of his compositions, demonstrates in this Paris recording of 1966 his superb mastery of the…

This recording, including Schubert’s Piano Trios in B flat major and E flat major as well as his ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata, features three artists renowned for their interpretations of Schubert: pianist András Schiff, violinist Yuuko Shiokawa and cellist…

For generations, the bitter-sweet Schubert piano works presented here have delighted music lovers with their irresistible mix of regretful tenderness and euphoric innocence. András Schiff’s exquisitely nuanced performances of the much-loved…

Lars Vogt’s performances at the 2011 Verbier Festival, in the Swiss Alps, offer a thoughtprovoking and varied programme. Works by some of the leading composers of the classical repertoire – Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms – receive a…

Roman Zaslavsky is a master of piano technique that espouses nuance without resorting to arbitrary mannerisms. He first gained recognition by taking 1st prize - the Primer Gran Premio - at the José Iturbi International Music Competition in Valencia,…