Chamber Music & Recitals

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

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...