Chamber Music & Recitals

Scenes of Finland, it's capital Helsinki, and it's countryside are intercut with the work of the painter Akseli Gallen-Kalleda, who, like his contemporary Sibelius, captured the spirit of his country and it's legends in his work.

Characteristic scenes from Paris is included plus more is shown to music by Marias, Charpenier, Mozart, Meyerbeer, Wagner, Chopin, Verdi, Delibes, Bizet, and Franck.

This tour of Beijing accompanies music played on Chinese instruments and makes use of traditional works and more modern arrangements, in traditional style. The instruments include the Chinese flute (dizi), zither (qin), Chinese lute (pipa).

This musical tour of France starts in Paris with scenes that reflect the modernization of the city in the 19th century under Baron Haussmann. From Paris, the tour passes to Burgundy, with it's vineyards, to Provence.

This DVD explores the streets, palaces, and parks of Madrid, the capital of Castile and of Spain, before turning south to La Mancha, the country of the immortal Don Quixote, and to Toledo, the home of Cervantes and El Greco.

The Places - the Puppet Museum in Munich houses a remarkable display of puppets of all kinds, from string and hand puppets to the shadow puppets of China. Nuremberg, famous for it's toys, has a Toy Museum, with exhibits ranging from the earliest times to...

This tour of London takes US to the best known parts of the British capital, with views of the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Hampton Court and down river to Greenwich. The music for this tour of London is taken from the...

A city built on an archipelago of 117 islets, Venice is remarkable in many ways. Unsullied by modern traffic, it's buildings retain much of their historic character and something of the magic of the place is reflected in this tour which visits a number...

This tour of Germany, and in particular, Thuringia, takes US to places associated with Johann Sebastian Bach, to his birth-place, Eisenach, to Arnstadt where he had early employment, and to Leipzig, where he spent the last 27 years of his life.

Our tour starts with the Baroque Villa Mansi in Lucca, followed by Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. Other sites include the villages of Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast, Lake Bolsano and Chianti.

Our tour of Scotland takes US from Edinburgh, with it's castle, Scott monument and Palace of Holyrood, to the Highlands and then to the Hebrides, recalling the journey undertaken by the young Mendelssohn.

The former Russian capital, established in 1712 by Peter the Great, represented an era of modernization. Built around the River Neva, it's palaces, streets, and parks reflect the age of it's construction and wider European influences.