Orchestral & Symphonic

Recently appointed the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons is one of the most interesting upcoming conductors. A dynamic young Latvian conductor, he leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in a high-profile program featuring Ives,...

New Year'S Eve Concert 1997: A Tribute To Carmen Blu-Ray

Between 1844 and 1859 Schumann, Robert lived in Dresden where he composed a third of his complete work. Today's concert marks the 200th anniversary of Schumann, Robert's birth and offers a welcome opportunity for Harding, Daniel and the Staatskapelle...

Directed by Gary Halvorson. Starring Alessandro Corbelli, Rachelle Durkin, Lawrence Brownlee.

Celebrated violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter introduces a new concerto by her friend and frequent collaborator John Williams, with the legendary composer himself conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Composed especially for Anne-Sophie Mutter, John...

The resounding success Richard Strauss's second opera Feuersnot experienced upon it's 1902 Dresden premiere more than made up for the failure several years prior of his first, Guntram. Feuersnot is a lively one-act drama about the ancient Bavarian...

Beethoven's only opera Fidelio never ceases to fascinate audiences with it's spellbinding story of true love. Staged by renowned opera director Flim, J?rgenm this production is the outstanding result of the teamwork of the orchestra and chorus of the...

With it's majestic themes soaring upwards like gothic pillars and it's brilliant chorales and fanfares glowing like stained - glass windows, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 is the most monumental of his orchestral works, a cathedral in sound that grows...

What a pleasure to listen to Demetrio e Polibio", wrote major Italian daily La Stampa" after the premiere of Rossini's very first opera at the 2010 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, attributing it an undeniable fascination. The work was given it's firs

Beethoven wrote his Piano Concerto No. 3 around 1800, at a time in which the ambitious composer had created his first important works in Vienna, such as the Path?tique" Sonata and the Moonlight" Sonata - personal works full of power and passion, with wh

I am both Christian and a DancerJohn Sebastian Bach's Matthew Passion has deeply moved me. Bach's musical incarnation of the Passion in both it's general and personal aspects created the need in me to find a choreographic equivalent. I am both Christ an

Mahler, Gustav's gigantic Symphony No. 2" in C minor usually fills out a concert on it's own. But in this recording with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) under it's principal conductor Mariss Jansons,...