Every year at the end of August the renowned Early Music Festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It is the largest festival focused on early music in the world. This time, Muskens performs sonatas from Franz Ignaz Beck.
The gala concert at Prague's beautiful Estates Theatre is one of the highlights of Mozart Year 2006. Conducted by Manfred Honeck, the Czech Philharmonic performs W. A. Mozart's finest compositions connected to the city of Prague.
Between March and May 2020, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin opened its unexpectedly vacated exhibition space for a concert series in isolation. As part of this series, Israeli pianist Iddo Bar-Shaï performs several excerpts from François Couperin.
A film about the Mozart effect; the power of Mozart's music to fight disease and increase the mental ability of listeners.
Modena and its opera tradition, derived from a long history with roots in the area's folk culture, are located with the region with the highest concentration of opera houses in the world.
With virtuosic flair and an eagerness to expand the repertoire, a new generation of pianists has revitalised the instrument's appeal. In addition to the usual classics, they perform formerly scorned works or discover neglected composers.
The beautiful Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg formed the background for the 1996 edition of the annual Europakonzert of the Berlin Philharmonic. After the intermission, Kolja Blacher featured in the two `Violin Romances' by Beethoven, followed by a performance of his `Seventh Symphony'. The...
Between March and May 2020, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin opened its unexpectedly vacated exhibition space for a concert series in isolation. Pianist Severin von Eckardstein performs Claude Debussy's `Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' and more.
Getting into Beethoven's creative mind, especially in the last phase of his life, when he was coping with severe hearing loss. Exploring Tom Beghin's new recording of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Opus 109, 110, and 111.
Three musicians bring popular dances, chansons and cantus firmi from Burgundian repertoire back to life in an echo of popular music practice from the era of the mighty House of Valois.
Every year since 1991, the Berliner Philharmoniker has given concerts in a different European city on each May 1st., these concerts have become known as 'Europakonzert'. Prague was the host city in 2013.
Bernhard Haitink conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and the Ernst Senff Choir in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at the Berliner Philharmonie in 1992.
Chamber music ensemble The Philharmonics pay tribute to the music of Vienna in a 2011 concert from Vienna's Café Sperl. The ensemble consists of musicians from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic performing five waltzes from Johann Straus II.
Ayumu Yamanaka (1988, Japan) performs selection from Poetic and Religious Harmonies in semi-final I of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017.
Excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos' are performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester, under the baton of Gottfried von der Goltz.
Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis leads his ensemble MusicAeterna alongside Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in a performance showcasing young, accomplished and energetic musicians. For this concert, they went searching for a new definition of the meaning of the word beauty. Th...
For this exceptional recital, recorded in 2019 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Camille and Julie Berthollet are accompanied by pianist Guillaume Vincent and the Ensemble Appassionato under the direction of Mathieu Herzog.
The Reate Festival Orchestra performs Nino Rota's `La notte di un nevrastenico' in Rieti, Italy, during the Reate Festival of 2017.
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Neeme Järvi presents the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Double concerto for cello, piano and orchestra. Soloists are Martha Argerich (piano) and Mischa Maisky (cello).
Cult director Robert Wilson's highly stylised and intensely dramatic staging brings a Zen-like tranquillity to Verdi's great opera concerning the conflict between individual aspiration, tradition and duty.
This live from performance from 2017 marks Fabio Luisi's very first concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen. Beethoven's fantastic Eroica symphony is a milestone in classical music, and with Stravinsky's mighty Symphony of Psalms and Strauss' virtuosic D...
A look at how one can describe the intimate connection between an instrument and its player. World-renowned violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman refers to his 1711 Stradivarius Lady Inchiquin as the love of his life.
Andris Nelsons, together with his then-wife, the great soprano Kristine Opolais and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present a program dedicated to Antonin Dvořák, singing the melodies that the composer hid in all layers of his music.