Orchestral & Symphonic

Abbado's approach to the music of Bruckner is soft and songlike, at times tense and urgent, but constantly filled with warmth of feeling" - not only the Neue Zurcher Zeitung is full of praise when Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra play...

Jacques Offenbach had already achieved fame as an operetta composer by 1866, but that year's premiere of La Vie parisienne was his first portrayal of contemporary Parisian life. With it's tale of romantic intrigues, disguises and comic celebrations of...

Witness The Wedding of the Year, filmed at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland, New Zealand. Handel's Baroque masterpiece Semele is an exciting mix of opera and oratorio. Unlike his much more famous Messiah, this work scandalized audiences when first...

Originally presented as part of the 700th anniversary celebrations of the poet's death, Dante's epic journey through the afterlife in The Divine Comedy, is realized in a major artistic collaboration between trailblazing forces of the contemporary arts...

Two classic court operas are brought together to tell the stories of love, be it between gods or royalty in the historic Confidencen Theatre, Sweden. Venus & Adonis, composed in 1683 by John Blow, is considered the earliest example of English opera. It...

Music? You can't destroy that... Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm...

Live At Lincoln Center Presents New York Rhapsody DVD

The Dutch violinist and the Johann Strauss Orchestra perform a number of musical hits. Andr? Rieu is one of the bestselling modern classical artists, with over 20 million sales worldwide and a string of successful tours behind him. Rieu set up the Johann...

Evidentia DVD

Cecilia Bartoli stars in this Zurich Opera production of the Halevy opera conducted by Adam Fischer.

Guillaume Tell DVD

This Glyndebourne celebration includes 12 productions from the last 13 years ranging across 'signature' works, classic productions and new adventures in Baroque opera and Wagner. Over two and a half hours of world-class opera. Artists include Anne Sofie...