The „Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" plot couldn’t be simpler: Time and Disillusion try to convince Beauty to abandon Pleasure for less fleeting gratifications. Krzysztof Warlikowski has taken Handel’s first oratorio, written when he was just…

German Network ZDF called Scandale „classical music for the pop age“ - and that might just be the exact right way to describe the collaboration between Ott and Tristano. The recording radiates energy and joy - as do the two artists when they go on…

In this recording acclaimed pianist András Schiff performs the first part of the fifteen piece cycle “On an Overgrown Path”, written by Czech composer Leós Janácek. Inspired by his Moravian homeland, the music is filled with folk melodies and is…

The Sonata 1905 is probably the most important work for piano by Czech composer Leós Janácek. In this work he expresses his deprecation for the violent death of a young worker who was killed in demonstrations short before. In this recording Hungarian…

András Schiff plays Schubert´s four Impromptus D. 899.

Hungarian pianist András Schiff plays Schubert’s four Impromptus D.925. Once more he convinces with technical sovereignty and great musicality.

In this recording from 1990 Andras Schiff plays Schubert's Moments Musicaux, a set of short, emotionally evocative piano pieces. Under Schiff’s masterful fingers, these pieces are brought to life with a delicate blend of lyricism and precision.

A fabulous tale of amourous intrigue based on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor". Here in a delightfully humorous production, recorded at the Schwetzinger Palace Theatre.

In 1741 Johann Sebastian Bach published the fourth and last volume of his most extensive keyboard publication, the Clavier-Übung: an aria and thirty variations known universally as the ‘Goldberg’ Variations. This monumental work, which is about…

A rococo beauty who ultimately drags everything into the abyss, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut is never fully satisfied. She becomes addicted to the admiring glances she receives from others, and the luxury and diamonds in which she bathes don’t warm her…