In this performance, Pharoah Sanders, one of the innovators of the saxophone, explores the possibilities of the instrument. This programme includes moments of sounds exploding with rhythmic intensity, plus pieces full of silent excitement.

This particular performance shows world-class piano player Joanne Brackeen with a quite unusual line up, consisting of Pat Metheny's drummer Danny Gottlieb, Lonnie Plaxico of Steve Coleman's Five Elements Band and Donald Harrison, a unique sax player…

Roman Zaslavsky understands how to contrast the two ingenious opposites Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt side by side, on one recording giving each one his due, thus offering a completely new approach to their music and also to two rather different…

Barbara Thompson has long been acknowledged as the first lady of the sax. Together with her band "Paraphernalia" and Jon Hiseman, she ranks among the world's top Jazz-rock ensembles.

The highly acclaimed Hungrian Keller Quartet is playing a programme in which pieces of Bach's "The Art of Fugue" and some György Kurtag quartets and trios are combined. The idea behind it is to demonstrate the relationship between the two great…

The great German baritone reveals for the first time on camera the secrets of his outstanding career. This richly illustrated profile of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest musician of all singers and the most prolific singer of our time, is an…

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Schubert's The Maid of the Mill in a live performance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris.

Join Robert Palmer and Dave Stewart on their tour along the Mississippi Delta as they give us historical insights into the roots of Southern Blues.

The concert was recorded for television in Pasadena, California, on January 15, 1975 and shows us the great 85-year-old pianist in a daunting programme. The repertoire includes works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert…

Elvin Jones is the archetypical modern jazz musician playing on instinct, not intellect. This is the kind of music he has played to perfection since his days with John Coltrane. There are some heavy-duty sidemen in his present "Jazz Machine": Sonny…