Chamber Music & Recitals

This tour of the Czech Republic takes US through the countryside, following the River Vltava to Prague, visiting some of the great buildings that lie on it's course. Included are works by Smetana and Dvorak.

The Places - Potsdam owes it's development as a garrison town to the soldier king of Prussia, Frederick William I. The park and palaces of Sanssouci, however, largely reflect the very different taste of his son, Frederick the Great, who reigned from 1740...

Glimpses of the glory that was Rome is shown to music by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Berlioz, Mozart, Rossini, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Liszt, and Wagner.

This visit to Spain centers on the old capital of Castile, Toledo, historically famous for it's steel and swords, the home of the great painter known as El Greco. There are views of Cordoba, with it's relics of Moorish occupation.

The past splendors of the Hapsburg Empire up to the establishment of the republic of Czechoslovakia are seen to music by Smetana, Janacek, Fibich, Mozart, Dvorak, and Rossler.

The music chosen for this tour of Guilin is played on traditional Chinese instruments. Performing the music are wind and string ensembles known as "silk and bamboo," from their silk strings and bamboo pipes, and ensembles that also include percussion.

This tour of Austria takes US from the historic towns of Stein-Krems and Salzburg to the former imperial country residence at Laxenburg, the Imperial Treasury in Vienna and vivid contemporary architecture of Fritz Stowasser, better known as Hundertwasser.

The places visited in this DVD are principally in the west of England, the heart of 'Elgar Country', with it's half-timbered houses, great cathedrals and churches, rivers and verdant landscapes. There are glimpses of the Malvern hills, of Hereford and...

Mozart's father Leopold settled in Salzburg in 1737 and in 1744, entered the service of the city's ruling Prince-Archbishop as a violinist. The city underwent various changes of regime in the first years of the 19th century, but in 1825.

The tour of Norway takes US from the capital, Oslo, with it's harbors, parks, and imposing buildings, to Bergen, the birthplace of Edvard Grieg, and it's surrounding countryside, with a glimpse of Grieg's house at Troldhaugen.

The tour starts in northern Italy in Mantua and moves to Cremona and Milan, as well as Sicily. Included is music by Mozart.

This musical tour starts in Zurich and moves to the hilltop village of Regensberg. The farmland of Emmental is seen, with Lake Thun and the waterfalls of Lauterbrunnen.