Following this concert, the leading Russian jazz pianist Leonid Chizhik was heralded as a real iscovery for the West. His programme includes his own compositions and jazz standards, as well as extensive improvisation

A retrospective view of twenty years in the life of this Soviet-born master pianist who has lived in the West since 1963. We have been producing films and television programmes with Vladimir Ashkenazy since 1966 and this one spans the entire period…

Our telecast of the C minor Mass was shot at the Knight's Hall in Wolfegg and shows Helmuth Rilling both in rehearsal and performance.

This is the first of two films about the music of Tchaikovsky, written and directed by Christopher Nupen. It covers the period from the first tentative stirrings of Tchaikovsky's musical talent to the time of the composition of Eugene Onegin and the…

Maria João and Aki Takase are a musical explosion all by themselves. Combine them with bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted- Pedersen and you've got a jazz trio that blows the walls off.

Recorded at the Munich Philharmonie, this programme features performances of Mozart's Piano Sonata in B flat Major K333 and a selection from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier by Gulda, who also plays some of his own compositions. He is joined by Herbie…

Recorded live from the Philharmonie in Munich, this concert features the legendary jazz keyboard player Joe Zawinul and his jazz-rock formation Syndicate. The line-up includes Zawinul on synthesiser, with Carl Anderson (vocals), Gerald Veasley (bass)…

This is the second of Christopher Nupen's films about Tchaikovsky and it continues his examination of Tchaikovsky's preoccupation with the idea of fate as a governing force in our lives. The first film (Tchaikovsky's Women) focused on the young…

The Christmas concert recorded at the Berlin Schauspielhaus on the Gendarmeriemarkt was one of the first joint musical productions of the reunited Germany. Fade-overs to landscapes and other locations in snow and ice turn the concert into a romantic…

The Austrian piano virtuoso, Friedrich Gulda plays Mozart's Fantasia in C K475 and Piano Sonata No.14 in C K457, followed by his own arrangement of a passage from The Marriage of Figaro. Gulda is then joined by the celebrated German organist Barbara…