A documentary with extraordinary and previously unpublished material about the “world‘s foremost composer of tango music” – Astor Piazzolla. The Argentine bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) revolutionized the tango. His tango…

One of the most promising young violinist - Valery Sokolov - and one of the most prestigious chamber orchestras - the Chamber Orchestra of Europe - play under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy at the Cité de la musique in Paris. This concert captures…

David Fray’s sparkling talent is such that he is one of the few pianists of the new generation to have signed an exclusive recording contract recently with one of the current majors, Virgin Classics. In January 2008 he recorded a programme entirely…

The outstanding pianist Daniil Trifonov presents an eagerly-anticipated recital at the 2016 Verbier Festival. The former winner of the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein Competitions has become a regular at the Verbier Festival over recent years. For this…

The Verbier Festival, created in 1994, has rapidly acquired a reputation for artistic excellence and is now considered one of the major European music festivals. For a fortnight each summer, the greatest stars of the classical music world come…

In 2003, following a career spanning nearly forty years, Julia Varady decided to stop performing in public. She now dedicates her time to teaching. While with most great singers, the moment when they switch from performing to teaching generally means…

Polish-Hungarian pianist Piotr Anderszewski is a tremendous international favourite for his strong-minded and deep-thinking interpretations. On the 19th of Dec. 07 in Warsaw Philharmonic Hall he performed two of Bach Partitas, and completed the…

From the bright river banks of a Greek island to the dark ghettoes of Aleppo, from the high plains of Ethiopia overlooking Africa to the burning solitude of the Egyptian desert, from the hermitages on Mount Athos, suspended between heaven and earth…

Inspired by the Tea Ceremony, Tan Dun, the contemporary Chinese composer living in New York, wrote the opera “Tea”. Tea is a tragic love-story set against the background of Chanoyu, the Japanese tea ritual. In “Tea”, Tan Dun combines Eastern and…

A documentary on the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen during the composition of his Chinese inspired work «Tao».