Orchestral & Symphonic

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The Planets by Gustav Holst is one of the best-loved twentieth century pieces by a British composer. Ken Russell has taken a brilliant performance of this work, with Eugene Ormandy conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra, and illustrated The Planets with pa

What a pleasure to listen to Demetrio e Polibio", wrote major Italian daily La Stampa" after the premiere of Rossini's very first opera at the 2010 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, attributing it an undeniable fascination. The work was given it's firs

They want to have fun from dusk till dawn. In this, Mr Mozart and the ravers are quite alike." If you want to get to the bottom of this statement by Friedrich Gulda, the concert A night with Friedrich Gulda" of the Munich Klaviersommer 1995 provides the

An unique documentary that gives insights in Zender's artistic creative process - including an interview with him which was recorded shortly before he passed away in October 2019. Bonus: The complete performance of Zender's most appreciated recording of...

With it's majestic themes soaring upwards like gothic pillars and it's brilliant chorales and fanfares glowing like stained - glass windows, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 is the most monumental of his orchestral works, a cathedral in sound that grows...

THE BEST OF 50 YEARS FILM MUSIC BY MICHEL LEGRANDIt is difficult to pin the multi-talented Michel Legrand down into one single category. This amazingly versatile singer, songwriter, composer, arranger, conductor and producer has enjoyed a whirlwind care

Mahler, Gustav's gigantic Symphony No. 2" in C minor usually fills out a concert on it's own. But in this recording with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) under it's principal conductor Mariss Jansons,...

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the German reunification on October 3, 2015, Arthaus Musik combines two unique programmes as 2 DVD Edition. The impressive documentary Classical Music and Cold War - Musicians in the GDR by Zintl, Thomas spans...

The Salzburg Festival summer of 1990 provided a wealth of artistic highlights. One of the very last highlights of the final weekend of the festival, however, was Muti, Ricardo conducting Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Creation in the Grosses Festspielhaus -

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Daniel Barenboim, one of the most renowned conductors and pianists of our times, an all-embracing portrait of this outstanding musical personality has been created. The documentary accompanies Maestro Barenboim...

Leh?r, Franz's operetta Paganini" (Vienna, 1925) marked the start of a new period in the composer's work that was strongly influenced by the tenor Richard Tauber. Leh?r now began to write works that were highly demanding in vocal terms and stylistically c