The programme is a musical celebration of the nativity, featuring many traditional carols, illustrated by pictures by the Old Masters from the National Gallery in London. With music by Handel and Vaughan Williams.

A mixture of music and words from Winchester Cathedral giving the story and meaning of the nativity.

Based on the novel "Les Grands" by Sylvain Prudhomme. Guinea Bissau singer Malan Mané has lived for 30 years in exile in Montreuil, France, as an anonymous immigrant worker. Yet he was once the star of one of West Africa’s finest and most legendary…

Alphaville, Germany's biggest synth-pop export and creators of the legendary 80s anthems "Big in Japan", "Sounds like a Melody" and "Forever Young" are looking back on 40 years of band history and export their greatest hits to the symphonic world…

This selection of some of Bach’s most perennially popular keyboard music admirably demonstrates the many varied facets of the composer’s fertile imagination. Deep pathos is contrasted with witty humour, serenity is paired with fleetness of foot, and…

Antonio Pappano has been announced the successor of Bernard Haitink as Music Director of the Royal Opera in London’s Covent Garden. Since 1992, when he was named Music Director of the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, he has been working with…

The Münchner Philharmoniker and Sergiu Celibidache share an impressive legacy. Celibidache has been principal conductor of the orchestra for a total of 17 years since 1979, a time in which the orchestra gained great international reputation and…

Daniel Barenboim plays Franz Liszt: Wagner and Verdi Opera transcriptions.

31 July is the anniversary of Franz Liszt's death. A series of programmes produced by Bavarian Television with Daniel Barenboim sheds light on the much wrinkled activity of the piano virtuoso, composer, music teacher and theorist, conductor and…

Recorded live on July 16th from the Freiburg Cathedral, with soprano Barbara Bonney, worldwide renowned for the clarity of her voice and the precision of her diction and baritone Matthias Goerne, whose recent interpretation with Sir Alfred Brendel…