A concert by these acclaimed pianists, each from widely differing piano disciplines, features them improvising together. Solo performances punctuate the concert

This solo performance is the first occasion on which Gulda linked together in a concert notated classical music, improvised music and his own compositions. The live recording from the Kongressaal, Munich opens with Mozart's Piano Sonata No 12 in F…

Chick Corea plays a selection of his own compositions and improvisations in a live concert recording. Corea's style shows marked changes since his solo 1982 performance, integrating classical and romantic elements .

A television film about a single work, Modest Mussorgski’s “Pictures at an Exhibition”. Written as a tribute to a lost friend, Victor Alexandrovich Hartmann, it is a strange and moving masterpiece which has become Mussorgski’s most popular work. It…

Portrait of the famous French producer Pierre Braunberger who started his career in Hollywood. Among his “discoveries” are directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. Containing excerpts of 15 of his films this programme tells the amazing…

Daniel Barenboim plays Beethoven's complete Piano Sonatas. Live recording from the Palais Lobkowitz, Palais Kinsky, Palais Rasumowsky and Schloss Hetzendorf in Vienna (1983/84). All sonatas are available separately (Progr. Nos. 6610-6641)

The Swedish composer, flutist and keyboardist Björn J. Lindh and the Swedish pianist Staffan Scheja create together their own interpretation of the changing face of Europe.

A hand-picked ensemble of soloists join together with the Gächinger Kantorei and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart under the direction of Helmuth Rilling to give a truly definitive performance of this pre-eminent masterwork.

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…

Vladimir Ashkenazy has had a particular affection for the music of Rachmaninoff throughout his professional life, and his performances have long had the ring both of authenticity and of deep commitment. This is not surprising in a Russian-born and…