Two of the leading Japanese musicians in the field of jazz and free music appear in this live recording. Pianist Yosuke Yamashita plays Thelonius Monk, and Hozan Yamamoto, virtuoso of the flute and the shakuhachi, performs traditional Japanese music…

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Viktoria Postnikova have performed together on numerous occasions throughout the course of their careers. In this 1987 recording from Leningrad, they showcase sonatas for piano and violin by Brahms, Bartók and Beethoven…

In this 1989 recording from Moscow, Yehudi Menuhin and Viktoria Postnikova perform a stunning rendition of sonatas for violin and piano by Mozart and Brahms. Recorded just before the fall of the Iron Curtain, this programme is an invaluable…

The final concert during the Münchner Klaviersommer 1992 in the sold-out Philharmonie was given by Wynton Marsalis and his septet. The only 31 years young star trumpet player presented one of his own jazz suite under the title of „In This House, On…

Two of Germany's most renowned jazz musicians, Albert Mangelsdorff (trombone) and Wolfgang Dauner (piano), join forces with Christoph Lauer (saxophone), Dieter Ilg (double bass) and Wolfgang Haffner (drums) in a concert recorded live from the…

In Michael Hampe's much-praised staging, Don Giovanni appears "as the embodiment of absolute, irresistible tempestuous life force.." and "as rebel against human order, against law and morality".

This performance of the Staatsoper Suttgart was acclaimed by music critics as the "Performance of the Year 1998" in the German magazine "Opernwelt". This unusual production of Hans Neuenfels recreated a game with forms and appearances of the music…

German composer Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But there is another, lesser-known side to this story. For years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young…

Bieitos interpretation of Wagner‘s Lohengrin deals with love, hate, jealousy and hope, but above all with man‘s imperative need to believe in something. To visualise these two contrasting worlds, Bieito creates two settings on stage: the world of…

Four German soloists, currently enjoying prime positions on the international concert scene, join together to perform Mozart's remarkable piano quartets in the Ludwigsburger Palace.