The most original and also wittiest piano concerto by Rachmaninoff is the Rhapsody on a popular Paganini melody. Here, the work is performed by the cult ensemble with Daniil Trifonov on the piano and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. By the way, even…

Fado is so much more than a musical genre - it is an attitude to life! With her art, Gisela João puts her own icing on the cake of the unique tradition of Fado: Modern and at the same time idiosyncratic, she interprets the Portuguese musical style…

Three accomplished young Irish singers, all with performance experience around the world, make up the cast of TRINITY – CLASSICALLY IRISH. These three great young voices matched with the most beloved Irish songs and sung with great orchestral…

Each summer, for more than a quarter of a century, music lovers from around the world have come together in the majestic Swiss Alps to take part in a community of exchange between great masters of classical music and the most promising musicians of…

The music of Gustav Mahler has played an important role in the musical life and personal development of Christoph Eschenbach and it is no surprise that he would choose to perform the Fourth Symphony in Verbier. The work is built around the song Das…

Recently appointed as the new music director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Valery Gergiev has selected two Russian compositions to demonstrate the versatility of his youth orchestra. The program opens with the Symphonic Diptych by Schedrin, a…

The film shows Jacques Loussier's significance to the Jazz scene of the 20th century music. It includes recently filmed interviews with young pianists like Olivia Trummer, Frank Dupree, Edouard Ferlet and Jean-François Zygel, each demonstrating their…

The virtuoso pianist Sergei Babayan performs Mozart’s mature and powerful Piano Concerto No. 25 as well as Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1, both accompanied by the Verbier Festival Orchestra under the direction of the young talented American conductor…

Much like Rachmaninoff, who struggled to be taken seriously as he stuck to his post-romantic compositional style, in this documentary, Igudesman - also an immigrant and a prolific composer - tries to be honest about the innate insecurities of…