Chamber Music & Recitals

Mascagni's first and most successful work has become an opera classic as it features elements of the Greek tragedy, mixing up religious and archaic elements. It's a story of love, passion, jealousy and restored honor in bloodshed. Directors Di Gangi and...

In the 1960s and in the decades following, the Budapest String Quartet's mantle at Columbia was passed on to the Juilliard String Quartet. Over the years, with some changes in personnel, the ensemble repeatedly set down it's famously lean, energetic and...

The pianist performs works by Grieg and Brahms in this 1972 concert in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Kyrill Kondrashin. B&W.

The pianist performs works by Rachmaninoff and Schumann/Liszt in these 1958 and 1972 live performances at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Kyrill Kondrashin. B&W.

The pianist performs works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Liszt live in 1962 at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Kyrill Kondrashin. B&W.

Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev with the Bolshoi Ballet in this 1982 Gavrilin ballet performance.

Included in these 1960, 1965, and 1972 B&W mono performances are works by Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy.

Included in this B&W 1972 & 1960 performances are works by Brahms, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff.

The master pianist performs material by Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Puccini began to compose Manon Lescaut in 1889. It was an act of supreme bravado as only five years previously Massenet had premiered Manon, based on the same novel by Abb? Pr?vost. The story is set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century and...

Although Mozart's five violin concertos represent only a very small part of his creative work (when compared to the 27 piano concertos and the 41 symphonies), they nevertheless belong to the core repertoire of all violinists. Just like his piano...

Bach,J.S. / St. John Passion DVD