Chamber Music & Recitals

The Places Northern Italy has been ruled by various powers over the centuries. The Southern Tyrol, seen here, retains much of it's Austrian past, with some regions predominantly German-speaking and others Italian.

Our journey takes US principally to the old city of Lucca, for centuries independent until seized by Napoleon, who made his sister, Elisa Baciocchi, and her husband it's rulers. Lucca was the birth-place of Boccherini and of Puccini and for some time the...

From Caserta and Naples in southern Italy, travel to Sicily. The music included is by Mozart.

Famous sights in London are shown to music by Elgar, Handel, Byrd, Haydn, Beethoven, and Verdi.

The great chateaux and country houses of the Loire arose largely from the decision of Francois I, who came to the throne in 1515, to move his court for part of the year to the Loire valley.

Tuscany draws it's modern name from the ancient kingdom of Etruria and it's inhabitants, the Etruscans, whose early history is inextricably entangled with the rise to power of Rome.

The tour takes US first to the carnival celebrations in Basel, with it's elaborate displays. There follows a visit to Vigeland Park in Oslo, with it's characteristic figures, the work of Gustav Vigeland. The music chosen for this tour is by Schumann. His...

Scenes from Vienna include historical and modern buildings, monuments from the glorious past, and more to music by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert.

Scotland's rugged landscape has a unique quality tha tmarks it out from the rest of Britain, contrasting most clearly with England, the traditional enemy and occupier.

Sicily has a remarkably varied history. From the 9th century BC it served as a Phoenician outpost and was later colonized by the Greeks, then became part of the Carthaginian Empire until absorbed by the Romans in the 3rd century BC.

Directed by Tony Palmer.

The music chosen for this tour or Hangzhou is played on traditional Chinese instruments. Unusually there is a Bach Minuet, transcribed for the Chinese dulcimer, the yangqin, used to accompany a visit to a silk museum.