This live recording begins with Corea's suite entitled Homecoming, played by both pianists and continues with six pieces from Bartók's Mikrokosmos. Another Corea piece follows - Duet for Two Pianos in Three Parts.

It is not an account of events in an artist’s life, nor is it a critical examination of his music, which speaks more eloquently for itself than any words might do. It is an attempt at using the medium of film to echo something of the spirit of…

Jacqueline du Pré had a very unusual and elevated relationship with the Elgar 'cello Concerto. For critics and public alike, her performances focused new attention on the inherent pathos in Elgar's melancholy masterpiece and had a ringing authority…

Pianist Chick Corea and flutist Steve Kujala play solo and duet in a 1984 concert at the Kongresshalle Munich.

This dynamic concert of breathtaking rock and jazz-funk from the Phalanx Quartet, featuring the guitarist James 'Blood' Ulmer and tenor saxophonist

Violin virtuoso Dmitry Sitkovetsky plays his own arrangement for string trio of Bach's Goldberg Variations, with Gerard Causse (viola) and Mischa Maisky (cello).

At the close of the 19th century, Vienna presented to the world a picture of ordered elegance and dignified gaiety, but beneath the surface the corruption and hollowness of the late Hapsburg Empire produced widespread and deep-seated confusion and so…

The ensemble makes its point both with the fantasic playing of the wind instruments as well as the virtuosic precision of Dave Holland's bass.

They started out in 1981 as a New York City street band, playing jazz, gospel and classics. Now they're an internationally acclaimed quartet forming a tighly-knit unit with their own distinctive identity, performing both traditional and experimental…

This programme brings together Gulda's Chopin recital, Pour ma douce, and a performance by Gulda and Limpe Fuchs, entitled Consonanza Personale (see below), in which they play a selection of their own compositions and improvisations.