Orchestral & Symphonic

Carl Maria von Weber composed the "Missa Sancta No. 1" in ocassion of the name day of King Friedrich August I of Saxony. Weber himself conducted the first performence in the Dresden Hofkirche in 1818. Thanks to the creation at the very same time it is...

Mozart's last work, the Requiem Mass in D minor K626, receives a strong performance from the BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUSChorus under Mozart specialist Sir Colin Davis in a classic recording made in 1984. Popular legend has it that the...

At the risk of getting doxxed by my musician colleagues, I'm going to divulge a dark truth about classical music: it's never as captivating or molecule-altering for anyone as it is for us on stage. Which is why I often find classical records, especially...

La Fille Du Regiment Blu-Ray

Tristan Und Isolde Blu-Ray

Founded in 1981, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Centuryconsists of approximately fifty-five musicians from all over the world. The Dutch conductor and recorder player Frans Br?ggen, who died in 2014, had based the structure of his orchestra upon the fam

The death of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi almost religiously worshipped, in 1873 deeply affected Verdi, who was then already being admired as Italy's greatest living composer and who was just going through a creative crisis. The Messa da Requiem is with

The PortraitDame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. In this exciting portrait, Kiri Te Kanawa talks about her li

In this live recording from the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink conducts his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in aperformance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Berlioz wrote his symphony, subtitled Episodes in the Life of an Artist, i

The ballet Solushka (Cinderella), by Prokofiev, Sergei; was written as a commissioned work for the famous ballet company of the Kirov Theatre in what is now St Petersburg. It's premiere, however, actually took place in Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre on 21...

Blu-ray pressing. 2023 release.

The prestigious concert will be conducted by Austrian conductor Franz Welser-M?st for the 3rd time (2011, 2013) The New Year's Concert live from Vienna is one of the world's most famous and spectacular classical music events. It will be broadcast on TV...