Petula Clark in a special concert celebrating the New Year at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

Itzhak Perlman plays the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by Lawrence Foster. This is made as a pair with the Beethoven Concerto, but, in order to present another side of Itzhak Perlman’s many-faceted…

Sir Peter Hall's outstanding Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of "Fidelio" remains remarkably faithful to the way Beethoven intended the opera to be. He managed to inject fresh excitement and suspense into "Fidelio", providing a perfect…

Claude Debussy Trois Nocturnes Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

"Il Ballo delle Ingrate" is based on the Idea that the "Ingrate" (women who have been hard-hearted in love) should return to earth from hell to warn the ladies in the audience against a similar fate. The warning is not expressed in the form of…

Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" is best loved for its memorable music and lively wit. The opera tells the story of the efforts of a Spanish nobleman to rescue his betrothed who is held captive against her will in a Turkish harem.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

To call this a meeting of musical legends might just be too modest a term: In 1982, Yehudi Menuhin met Kurt Masur for a rendition of Brahm's Violin Concerto in D Major.

Top orchestral soloists and performers from around the world have combined to form the unique World Philharmonic Orchestra. In this concert recorded in Stockholm, the WPO performs in aid of international charities. Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

Schwetzingen is a tiny town near Heidelberg which has a famous palace with magnificent gardens, not unlike those at Versailles. The Schwetzingen Festival is held every Spring in the palace and commissions a small-scale opera for the palace's…