Orchestral & Symphonic

Directed by Hans Hulscher. Starring Jeanine Collard, Fran?oise Og?as, Colette Herzog.

Beethoven, Ludwig van - a composer between genius and madness, tradition and modernism. It is not without good reason that the German composer is considered both consummator of Viennese Classicism as well as pioneer of Romanticism. He created works whose...

Monteverdi's operas are rightly considered as the fi rst masterpieces in opera history. Much like DNA, they contain all characteristics of today's opera, 400 years later. Elena Kats-Chernin, a successful international composer from Tashkent, used Montever

Released for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray, Leonard Bernstein's interpretations of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 and Haydn's Missa in tempore belli are quite superb. Only the strings of the Vienna Philharmonic could carry off the orchestral...

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Christian Thielemann conducts the Sachsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden and Staatskapelle Dresden in works by Wagner and Liszt with tenor Endrik Wottrich.

The Cleveland Orchestra is the "aristocrat among American orchestras" (The Telegraph) and the ensemble's music director, Franz Welser-M?st, leads them with verve and precision. This three Blu-ray set from Belvedere features a 'cycle' of all the major...

This once-in-a-lifetime recording continues DG's celebration of the work of the multi-award-winning composer. The label's chart-topping John Williams in Vienna set the mark as the best-selling symphonic recording of 2020. John Williams - The Berlin...

Royal Opera productions present three of Giacomo Puccini's greatest operas. John Copley's iconic La boh?me brings the Paris of the 1830s to life in vivid detail; Jonathan Kent's atmospheric and naturalistic Tosca evokes the turbulence of Rome in 1800;...

Shakespeare provided lifelong inspiration for the towering operatic genius that was Giuseppe Verdi, but just three of the Bard's plays ever emerged fully-fledged from the composer's pen. This trio of landmark productions, featuring a veritable...

?2017 marked the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi - one of the founders of opera and hailed in his day as 'the creator of modern music'. Monteverdi transformed vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony into an entirely new genre that...

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