Chamber Music & Recitals

Georgia: A multi-ethnic state in the Caucasus, hovering between the past and the future. Up upon a hill, the Paliashvili Music School for gifted children looks out over Tbilisi. The plaster is crumbling, hardly any instrument can be tuned, and many...

Satiesfictions - Promenades With Erik Satie DVD

Goldberg Variations-Including Documentary The DVD

Memorial Concert For Claudio Abbado DVD

This special release brings together two compelling works showing the dramatic range of Lauren Cuthbertson, and The Royal Ballet. Internationally acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston, previously Associate Artist of The Royal Opera House and Director of...

When, in December 2008, six decades into his illustrious career, Alfred Brendel bade farewell to an emotional Viennese audience, it was not a "full stop", as it may have appeared at that moment. Rather a "semicolon". With more time on his hands, the...

Franco Alfano's opera Risurrezione draws it's inspiration from Tolstoy's novel Resurrection and was the work that ensured Alfano's considerable success as a composer. The plot narrates the story of Katiusha and her tragic love for prince Dimitri who...

With this "Girl of the Golden West" Dynamic begins a new collaboration with Teatro San Carlo of Naples. This is a new production by Hugo de Ana (who provided sets, costumes and direction), conducted by Juraj Valcuha, who was recently appointed Musical...

The 2017 edition of the Reate Festival of Italy staged two operas composed by Nino Rota (1911-1979). Mostly known for his cinema soundtracks, Rota was able to merge the great Italian operatic tradition of Rossini, Puccini and Verdi into a contemporary...

A rare and very interesting work composed exactly in the middle of the 19th century, Crispino e la comare is one of the last examples of Italian traditional opera buffa. Composed by Neapoltan brothers Luigi and Federico Ricci, the opera quickly gained...

I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata is an operatic drama in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera. The work is based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a child of it's age; a grand historical novel with a...

I Shardana is set in a free Sardinia, an island where rigorous rules are in force and it's people do not tolerate invasions or spiritual contamination, a time when - as Ennio Porrino (b. 1910) specifies in the score - shepherds were warriors and judges,...