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Seiji Ozawa is not only a world-famous Japanese conductor, but also a founder and director of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, home of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which in 2015 was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival (OMF). In this all…
Total running time
112 mins
An exceptional concert from Brazil: the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo proves its position as the most important orchestra in Latin America. Conducted by charismatic Maestro John Neschling since 1997, the orchestra is defined by its…
Total running time
125 mins
This DVD Box presents two of the concert highlights of the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with outstanding soloists. Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart For the Ouverture Spirituelle Nikolaus Harnoncourt chose two seldom heard…
Total running time
248 mins
With a programme dedicated to the second half of the 19th century, Mariss Jansons, the vienna philharmonic and soprano Nina Stemme offer a "superlative concert experience" (Kurier). A brilliant reading of Richard Strauss's tone poem Don Juan opens…
Total running time
95 mins
A four DVD Box combines some of the most famous and best loved romantic music, works which, with their lyrical emotion, their colourful sonority and their stunning virtuosity – were, are and always will be essential to our musical heritage. This…
Total running time
265 mins
This DVD Box presents milestones of Riccardo Chailly’s time as chief conductor of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. His inauguration concert with the Gewandhausorchester is as well included in this DVD collection as the legendary Schumann concert with…
Total running time
428 mins
Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful concert to end the season. In 2009 about 22,000 people had come together at the Berlin Waldbühne to enjoy the traditional summer picnic concert. The…
Total running time
104 mins
Composer and conductor Pierre Boulez is renowned for his interpretations of twentiethcentury music, and especially the work of Igor Stravinsky. His inspired performance in December 2008 of The Firebird and Fireworks, with the dynamic Orchestre de…
Total running time
105 mins
When Philippe Jaroussky - whose angelic voice seems almost timeless - sings works by Telemann and Bach, it becomes abundantly clear that the sheer emotional force and the purifying power of their music have not diminished one bit over the centuries…
Total running time
92 mins
Recorded at the annual summer concert of the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne in Berlin 2003, this DVD captures the atmosphere of an open-air Gershwin night in full while also allowing a closer look at the musicians and the conductor. With an…
Total running time
129 mins