As is customary, the annecy classic festival 2014 closed with a performance by Yuri Temirkanov, Denis Matsuev and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. For the 2014 closing concert, the artists chose works by Edward Elgar and Modest Mussorgsky.

In August 2015, Denis Matsuev, Yuri Temirkanov and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra closed the annecy classic festival with a program featuring an all-Prokofiev program: They showcased both the Piano Concerto No. 3 and the famous ballet Romeo…

Annette Dasch started her fulminant career as a winner of prestigious international singing competitions and is nowadays one of the most sought-after singers. She is also known for developing her own musical programmes. In 2011, an extraordinary…

Antonio Pappano together with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden are presenting a symphonic work with particular relevance for Dresden: Rachmaninoff‘s Symphony No. 2 , which was written during the composer‘s years at the Saxon residency. The…

Recorded live, this concert of piano music features solo performances of Debussy's ESTAMPES, Chopin's SCHERZO IN B FLAT MINOR and three NOUVELLES ETUDES by Nelson Freire. He is then joined by Martha Argerich and, together, they play Ravel's LA VALSE…

Ten years of hard work have made the Arod Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. For it takes years to blend together four individual talents into one. Resolving conflicts, working together, travelling and touring without neglecting…

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…

Klaus Mertens and Ton Koopman with their programme "At Home with Bach" create an atmosphere of conviviality and present works from "Schemellis Gesangbuch", "Notenbuch der Anna Magdalena", "Andreas Bach-Buch" and "Clavierübungen III".

"Bach around the world" celebrates in the form of a Pledge Show the great composer and Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach. Impressions of all over the world give an idea of how modern and popular the old music of the composer still is. Whether in…

Should it be true that J.S. Bach actually composed the Goldberg Variations as a sleeping aid for Graf Keyserlingk, then Evgeni Koroliov, born 1949 in Moscow, must have succumbed to a misapprehension. The further he proceeds in the series of…