Chamber Music & Recitals

The Coronation of King George II was a magnificent event, deploying great pomp and ceremonial, elevated by music of an equal splendor. Handel, the celebrated opera composer, was commissioned by the new king to compose the music for this grand ceremony...

With his Te Deum (1677), Lully produced a singularly important work, which was to impose an "official" genre which lasted a century: a chef-d'oeuvre of musical architecture, the imposing forces require trumpets and timpani and was the religious work the...

This 1978 concert from the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory features works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Bach.

Best Of Verdi Opera Choruses DVD

George Benjamin and Martin Crimp's second full-length opera - following the acclaimed Written on Skin - draws on the real-life relationship between Edward II and Piers Gaveston to explore how personal relationships can have fatal political consequences...

Symphonies 1-3 DVD

This new release is an intimate portrait of Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) on the occasion of her centennial on May 18th 2018. The Swedish soprano had an incredible technique and was the world's leading dramatic soprano between 1955 and 1975. Rare TV and...

Alfred Brendel Plays And Introduces Schubert DVD

Do you know why there was a wild brawl at the premiere of Stravinsky's Sacre du printemps? Why did Schubert never intend to finish his famous Unfinished Symphony in h-Minor. What is the fate behind Beethoven's Symphony of Fate? And what surprise did...

It is the centerpiece of the Salzburg Festival and an incontrovertible institution: For it's 100th anniversary, the Salzburg Festival offered an opulent interpretation of Jedermann (Everyman) by Hofmannsthal. "Tobias Moretti plays with great commitment,...

After his Neapolitan training Gaspare Spontini settled in Paris for a few years, where he was nominated "compositeur particulier de la chambre" of Empress Josephine, Napoleon's wife. It was indeed Napoleon who, in 1808, commissioned him the opera,...

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra celebrates it's 20th anniversary by giving a concert at the Berlin Philharmonie with world-renowned artists: Anne-Sophie Mutter and Yo-Yo Ma perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto together with Maestro Barenboim and the...