Chamber Music & Recitals

The Portuguese pianist's return to the concert platform in the mid-1980s, after a break due to ill health, was a triumph. This programme shows her pursuing her professional career with renewed vigour and talking with great frankness and intensity about he

This recital is Ren?e Fleming's very personal homage to "Fin de Si?cle" Vienna. At the turn of the last century, the capital of the Austrian Empire was also one of the cultural centres for the fine arts and, in particular, for music. The city of Haydn,...

The Elegance Series is a collection of breathtaking Ballet performances from internationally renowned houses with well-loved Dance Stars. They feature productions by the greatest choreographers that we know today and of course the legacy of the legendary

The Elegance Series is a collection of breathtaking Ballet performances from internationally renowned houses with well-loved Dance Stars. They feature productions by the greatest choreographers that we know today and of course the legacy of the legendary

Ciaccona The Bass Of Time DVD

If you see one opera this year, make it The Exterminating Angel, ran the headline in the New York Times after the US premiere of Thomas Ad?s' "stunningly inventive" opera based on Luis Bu?uel's surreal and satirical 1962 film El ?ngel exterminador. Like...

Listeners of all ages will find in this recital a lively and absorbing array of pieces, arranged in much the same spirit as in Volume 1. A sequence of smaller pieces (bagatelles mostly) prepares the way for the larger, more complex, sonata movements...

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN presents Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait. One of the most celebrated British painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves in self-portraiture with such consistency. Spanning...

Love In London DVD

The indisputable master of Baroque music, Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation is greater now than ever. Now his entire organ works are to be made available on DVD for the first time through the release of the highly-acclaimed BBC2 television series.

Dutch violinist Andre Rieu celebrates the beauty of Tuscany with a live concert recorded at the Plaza de Republica in Cortona, Italy, performing some of the world's most beloved waltzes with the backup of his orchestra, chorus, and soloists.

How does someone become a composer? Klaus Huber, one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century, answers this question to his 12-year-old grandson with simple and vivid images. Barbara Eckle's fi lm offers a fascinating...