Chamber Music & Recitals

Nijinsky is the title of this "choreographic approach" to a dance phenomenon that has been part of Neumeier's life ever since the beginning of his career. During his approximately ten years as a dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) set a new standard both...

Rossini: Elisabetta Regina D'Inghilterra DVD

When, in 1928, Alfredo Casella approached opera for the first time, he was already a mature, 45-year-old composer. La Donna Serpente by Carlo Gozzi was a subject that had intrigued him for a decade or so and, in fact, in 1918 he had conceived of a choral...

Verdi, Giuseppe's Ernani is a vibrant adaptation for the lyric stage of one of the most flamboyant dramas by the French poet. Both the composer and his librettist have combined Hugo's verbal eloquence with the right musical temperament. Perfect example...

Wen-Sinn Yang recorded the complete Solo Cello Suites of J.S. Bach in the intimate atmosphere of the small Romanesque church of St. Servatius.

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In 1834 Bellini stated that choosing a good subject for an opera was "more difficult than creating the music itself." The success of Il Prata, with a plot containing all the ingredients of Romantic popular literature, convinced Bellini and Romani to...

This work is captivating in it's intensity and focuses on aspects of and moments in Tasso's rich, eventful life. Indeed, Donizetti seems to have been so actively involved in drafting his subject that he may well have seen in Tasso not a little of himself...

Michael Praetorius was the most prolific German composer of his generation, making use of a beauty of sound and an abundance of instruments worthy of his contemporary Monteverdi. Here we have a festive Christmas Mass as might have been heard in a great...

Known as a creator of astonishing images, stage director and visual artist Robert Wilson delivers a magnificent production of Mozart's adaption of Handel's Messias. Mozart was commissioned by Gottfried van Swieten to modernize the score fifty years after...

The first masterpiece of sacred music is undoubtedly the mythical Vespers of Monteverdi, first published in Venice in 1610. Quintessential of the great Italian polychoral style of writing, with it's choirs, initially distributed throughout the entire...

We all remember the "Austrian woman" by her nickname "Madam deficit," but on the other hand, if you put aside the parties, the balls, and the extravagant garments, Marie-Antoinette's pronounced fondness for the arts, the theater, music, and dance is less...