This recording of Sergiu Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker gives a unique impression of Celibidache’s personality as a conductor. In an intimate rehearsal of Prokofiev’s Symphonie Classique, it lets the viewer experience the process of…

A live recording from the Festhalle in Bad Urach, in which the fine tenor Peter Schreier, accompanied by Norman Shetler, gives a recital consisting entirely of Beethoven lieder.

This live recording, from the Munich Philharmonie, features a programme of orchestral works and operatic arias by composers including Beethoven, Berg, Prokofiev, Giordano, Rossini and Verdi. Gustav Kuhn conducts the European Community Youth Orchestra…

This performance was recorded live at the Bad Urach Autumn Festival and presents a concert of scenes from Goethe's masterpiece Faust, set to music by Robert Schumann. The concert took place at the five hundred-year-old gothic Amanduskirche with…

Nights in the Gardens of Spain combines night-time footage of the Alhambra, the Moorish palace and gardens atop the hills of Granada, with a stunning performance of de Falla‘s Masterpiece by Charles Dutoit with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and…

The legendary Concierto de Aranjuez has never been performed with such sensuality and profundity as by guitarist Pepe Romero and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. Romero’s interpretation is influenced by…

Gioacchino Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle was written in 1863, "the last", the composer called it, of my "péchés de vieillesse" (sins of old age). For its first performance (1864) Rossini arranged the work with only two pianos and harmonium…

This festive concert from the Gethsemanekirche in Berlin marks the 60th anniversary of the RIAS Kammerchor. Under the baton of the new chief conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin are performing…

It was on the spur of the moment that András Schiff and a few of his friends decided to establish the Cappella. The pianist’s quirky humour is reflected in the rather ambiguous name of the ensemble, “Andrea Barca”. Schiff is fond of telling the story…

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado performed a Russian night at Lucerne. Tchaikovsky’s symphonic poem The Tempest is based on the famous play by Shakespeare and shares many similarities in musical structure with Tchaikowsky’s better…