World star, Cecilia Bartoli with her breathtaking coloratura, together with the fascinating Russian virtuoso violinist, Maxim Vengerov, lend radiance to Claudio Abbado's gala performance. Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances No. 1, 5, 7,10, 17, 21 Gypsy…

Gala from the Royal Opera House to honour Placido Domingo's 25th Anniversary of performing at Covent Garden. Charles Gounod Faust - Prologue, Avant de Quitter Jules Massenet Le Cid - O Souverin Georges Bizet Carmen - Duet from Act 1 Wolfgang Amadeus…

On the occasion of Bruckner's 100th day of death, Pierre Boulez conducts his eighth Symphony. The recording took place in the Stiftskirche of St. Florian where Bruckner was first exposed to the learnings of music. Boulez' much discussed…

Georges Bizet: Selection from "Carmen", Sergeij Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy op. 25, Maurice Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnol, Manuel de Falla: "El amor brujo" - Ritual Fire Dance, Johannes Brahms…

Love is the motto of the 1998 New Year's Eve Concert. And who wrote better music about love than Mozart and Verdi? Maestro Claudio Abbado has chosen two of the best Mozart interpreters of our day, Christine Schäfer and Simon Keenlyside, for this…

Richard Strauss Don Juan op. 20 Orchestral Songs: Heimliche Aufforderung, Zueignung, Cäcilie Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 Lohengrin: In fernem Land Tristan und Isolde…

Jordi Savall performs music pieces of Mateu Fletxa and Bartomeu Carceres, two great composers of the Spanish Renaissance. The concert was recorded in the Church Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona and in the 14th Century Monastery of The Paular.

On the tenth anniversary of Herbert von Karajan's death the Berliner Philharmoniker paid tribute to their late maestro in his home town of Salzburg. In a live shooting from the city's imposing Cathedral, Claudio Abbado conducted an all-Mozart…

Recorded live on July 16th from the Freiburg Cathedral, with soprano Barbara Bonney, worldwide renowned for the clarity of her voice and the precision of her diction and baritone Matthias Goerne, whose recent interpretation with Sir Alfred Brendel…

Gala concert performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of Kurt Masur. The repertoire includes a few of the most popular compositions by Mendelssohn who was the 5th conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1835 - 1847. Overture to "A…