Orchestral & Symphonic

It has long been a Philharmonic New Year's Day tradition to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the Johann Strauss family and their contemporaries. These concerts not only delight the

Giant hamburgers and soft toilets - his images of consumerism, executed in disorienting materials and dimensions, and environments made Oldenburg, Claes a key figure in Pop Art. Today, his landscape art and large sculptures are modern monuments which have

The Elegance Series is a collection of breathtaking Ballet performances from internationally renowned houses with well-loved Dance Stars. They feature productions by the greatest choreographers that we know today and of course the legacy of the legendary

Sir William Walton is of one of Britain's best-loved twentieth-century composers. He wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. Recorded live from London's Royal Festival Hall, in Walton's presence, the celebrated And

Mark-Anthony Turnage has rapidly earned a unique position among composers of his generation for his distinctively lyrical compositional voice, his ability to create complex yet always lucid instrumental textures, and his innate dramatic sense. Improvisat

The PortraitDame Kiri Te Kanawa's story has all the best elements of an operatic fairytale. Coming from a part-Maori background she went on to become one of the world's most famous opera stars. In this exciting portrait, Kiri Te Kanawa talks about her li

Portrait - A Film by Dorian SupinThe Estonian Arvo P?rt is widely regarded as one of today's mostoriginal creators of music. Largely self-taught, he is remote from the mainstream of the contemporary avant-garde. Much of his music is bound up with sacred

With his portrayal of the American flag, Johns revolutionised the American art scene and became, along with Robert Rauschenberg, a forerunner of pop-art and minimalism. The Museum of Modern Art bought three of his works as early as 1958 when he had his...

Don Ellis - Electric Heart is the story of one of the most innovative musicians of the 20th Century. Ellis (1934-1978) fused together a mixture of Jazz-Classical-Rock and his own version of World Music long before anyone else had thought of doing it. He...

This programme records the meeting of two Russian musical giants, as Val?ry Gergiev, the most charismatic and dynamic conductor of our day, rehearses, performs and discusses Stravinsky's masterpiece. Innovative, inspiring and exhilarating, the Sacre du pr

A Concert on the occasion of the XX. World Youth DayBeethoven himself dubbed this mass his greatest and most successful work" and referred to it as an oratorio". Although this was probably primarily a tactic to increase the work's popularity for the u

In This Live Recording from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Internationally Acclaimed Conductor Zubin Mehta Leads Theisrael Philharmonic in the Four Movements of Anton Bruckner: Smassive 'Symphony No. 8'.