Chamber Music & Recitals

Finnish opera star Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under their music director Marin Alsop. The classic songs in this film were specially arranged...

Bianca e Fernando, commissioned for the inauguration of the Carlo Felice Theatre in 1828, was composed at the start of Bellini's career as one of the most important opera composers of the 19th century. The superb music for this dramatic story of filial...

The composition of Un ballo in maschera caused Verdi many problems. What began as an opera called Gustavo III was subject to censorship by the Neapolitan and Roman authorities, so it's libretto, location and title all changed. The subject, however, is...

Filmmaker Bettina Ehrhardt accompanies the conductor to those places which were closely connected to his life - Mumbai, Israel, Berlin and Florence - and takes a look back at a great career between Europe and North America. Bonus: The complete...

Staged by Gustav Rudolf Sellner, conducted by Lorin Maazel, with costumes by Filippo Sanjust and performed by the six soloists with consummate vocal elegance, Cimarosa's Die heimliche Ehe" offers unalloyed pleasure, triggering a kind of ecstasy with it's

One year before he died Franz Schubert composed the great song cycle "Winterreise" (Winter Journey) after the poems by Wilhelm M?ller. Being already very sick he created a masterpiece that - together with "Die sch?ne M?llerin" - holds the foremost place...

Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna star in this 2008 Metropolitan Opera production of the Puccini opera conducted by Marco Armilliato.

Beethoven & Tchaikovsky 3 DVD

The world premiere of John Tavernier's Fall and Resurrection, filmed in London's St. Paul's Cathedral. This performance was dedicated to and performed in the presence of Charles, Prince of Wales.

English pianist Clifford Curzon shows off his elegant playing style in these 1959 and 1968 concert broadcasts originally shown by the BBC. Curzon plays Schubert's Piano Sonatas in B Flat Major and D Major, Schumann's "Kinderscenen," Brahms' Capriccioin D...

That art is not an end in itself, but is associated with a mission, a moral obligation, is evident in the artistic endeavor of Gidon Kremer. In his playing, the violinist has never stopped searching for truths hidden within the depth and beauty of music...

Bruckner / Barenboim DVD