Orchestral & Symphonic

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...

Sym 9 Blu-Ray

All are equal before the work, before the mysteries of a score; this was Claudio Abbado's heart-felt conviction. For him, the willingness to be open to one another and to the independent life of musical processes was the only prerequisite for making...

Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Sym 5 Riccardo Chailly Gewandhaus Blu-Ray

Works For Orch Blu-Ray

The festive series of concerts to celebrate the inauguration of Andris Nelsons and the 275th anniversary of the Gewandhausorchester concluded with a riveting performance of two of music history's great symphonic works. Mozart's Symphony No. 40 is one of...

The annual summer opera festival in Macerata celebrated it's centennial season in 2021 with two special Verdi operas. The most loved opera AIDA, which was once the opening performance of the first festival sesaon in 1921, and LA TRAVIATA, which is the...

Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.