Chamber Music & Recitals

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.

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...