Chamber Music & Recitals

The new production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen launched in 1995 by the English National Opera (ENO) was received with great enthusiasm by both the public and musical press. Under the musical direction of Nicholas Kok, the English National Orchestra...

New York, 1930, in the sold-out Carnegie Hall: Mary Wigman, alone and barefoot, leaves the stage as high-priestess of dance". To this day, Americans celebrate her as the New German Dance's" pioneer. The life of one of the most exciting 20th century arti

Heinrich Sch?tz was presumably the first internationally renowned German composer. In the 40 years he spent as court "kapellmeister" in Dresden, he left a strong impression on musical life in Europe. Although he was named "father of our modern, meaning Ge

This intimate portrait follows Kylian as he travels to Prague for the first time since the change of government and to rehearsals in Stuttgart, where he began his career as a dancer with John Cranko and choreographed his first ballet. There is also film...

For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr?d?ric Chopin, the renowned Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen invited the Staatskapelle Berlin to give a truly special program: the rare combination of Chopin's two piano concertos in one concert. For this purpose Da

When this production of Handel's Ariodante - directed by David Alden and conducted by Ivor Bolton - had it's premiere, it met with unanimous critical and popular acclaim. Alden, as a theatrical modernist, transformed the opera seria into an...

Lhistoire Du Soldat DVD

Friedrich Gulda belongs to the irrational sort, whose threatening extinction is a great loss to the world" (Manfred Gr?ter, WDR). After years of virtual abstinence from the classical music business - Gulda cursed at it's protagonists being schei?reaktion

Maestro Celibidache, Sergiu (1912-1996) was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of makingrecordings because he feared they misrepresented...

John Gay (1685-1732), a genial poet and playwright with a talent for satire, got the idea for The Beggar's Opera from his friend, the satirist Jonathan Swift, who had mentioned to him that A Newgate pastoral might make a pretty sort of thing". It was sta

On 7 April 1923, Ciboulette premiered at the Th??tre des Vari?t?s in Paris, and, as one of Reynaldo Hahn's most elegant and refined works, it is considered one of the last masterpieces of French operetta. The story tells of the pretty market gardener...

The purity of classical dance meets the opulent exoticism of the Maharajas' India in this 150-year-old ballet, glorified by Nacho Duato for the Mikhailovsky Ballet. Of Ancient India, composer Ludwig Minkus made in his La Bayad?re the shiny background of...