BR KLASSIKS

Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion was written for Holy Week in 1724, directly after Bach was appointed as cantor of St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. St. John's Passion is a true Baroque...

Bach,J.S. / Rundfunkorchester / Rundfunks Br-Klassik Greatest Moments CD

Bach,J.S. / St. John Passion DVD

It was thanks to his father's penchant for organizing musical concerts in his family's Berlin apartment on Sunday mornings that the 11-year-old Felix Mendelssohn began to compose quite a long series...

Bartholdy / Winkel / Arman Psalms CD

The BR-KLASSIK label has already released several recordings with Bernard Haitink, who has now been connected with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks for over 55 years. Following...

Beethoven / Britten / Gerhaher / Huber Folkslied CD

In an interview about great conductors with the newspaper Die Welt in 2015, Sir Simon Rattle said of Mariss Jansons, "He's the best of all of us!" This new release from BR-Klassik focuses on the...

The tonal language of Beethoven's Mass in C major, the first of his two Mass settings, is that of a personal confession, making the work very modern and forward-looking and opening up entirely new...

A recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ninth" is always a great event, especially because the symphony's final chorus, Schiller's "Ode to Joy", is understood around the world as a plea for peace and...

This is the first and only complete recording of the Beethoven Symphonies with Mariss Janson's and his Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. This long-awaited cycle consists of the best...

From a 2012 live performance in Tokyo's Suntory Hall the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) conducted by Mariss Jansons embarks on a program presenting...