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'True lovers of Italian music' is how the musicians of the young ensemble L'Escadron volant de la Reine describe themselves. Their fascination with Naples resulted in a programme for Holy Week.

Before Porpora, Scarlatti and Pergolesi ruled the Neapolitan music scene, there was Gaetano Greco, one of the finest music teachers and composers of his day. Andrea Buccarella, a young harpsichordist from Rome, pairs Greco's most beautiful toccatas.

The trio composed of Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Elisa Eleonora Papandrea (violin) and Monaldo Braconi (piano) performs regularly in Italy's concert halls and abroad.

The beautiful Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg formed the background for the 1996 edition of the annual Europakonzert of the Berliner Philharmoniker. In honour of the Russian hosts, the concert opened with highlights from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by the Cavatina from Rachmaninoff'...

The lives and works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Both were born into well-to-do families and unlike Mozart, the vaudeville-style tour as a child prodigy was refused for the young Brahms.

Pedro Burmester and Mário Laginha, piano, play 'Le Grand Tango' by Astor Piazzolla, Ballad No 1 in G minor by Frédéric Chopin, 'Prélude à l'aples-midi d'un faune' by Claude Debussy and `La Valse by Maurice Ravel.

This concert is the result of the collaboration between the Giuseppe Nicolini Conservatory of Piacenza and the Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. On the programme are works by the Dutch conductor and composer Johan de Meij.

For over two decades, the Berlin Philharmonic has celebrated its creation on 1 May with the annual Europakonzert, which in 2010 was held in Oxford. Daniel Barenboim conducts a program including Johannes Brahms' `Symphony No. 1'.

On 14 November 1987, conductor Simon Rattle made his Berlin Philharmonic debut with Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6. In retrospect Rattle says that he felt like he was finding his voice that day. Mahler's multifaceted work is now again on the program when Sir Simon appears for the last time as chi...

Lars Vogt is the soloist in a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's `Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15'. The Orchestre de Paris is conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and recorded at the Salle Pleyel, Paris in 2013. Beethoven composed the work in 1795. Although it is listed as his first concerto, it was wr...

The works of French composer, Claude-Achille Debussy.

The harmonic experiments, radical chromaticism and stylistic freedom of Giovanni De Macques prove how exciting Neapolitan keyboard repertoire actually is. Baroque expert Jean-Marc Aymes chooses his favourite toccatas and canzonas from the keyboard oeuvre of this Franco-Flemish composer, whose emp...

Peter Dugan accompanies baritone John Brancy (USA, 1988) during the semi-finals of the Art Song competition of the Concours musical international de Montréal of 2018 (CMIM). The program features Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen (D 698) and Erlkönig (D 328) by Schubert, Auf einer Burg, Op 39/7 by Schu...

Bernard Haitink conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra for the Easter Concert in Baden-Baden, Germany. Performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major Pastoral with violinist Isabelle Faust.

A unique and favourite glance at Claudio Abbado's work and into the working life of a classical music player in contemporary times by following the Orchestra's European tour in 2012-2013.

This tragic masterpiece marked Verdi's breakthrough in 1851. The hunchbacked jester Rigoletto loves his only daughter Gilda deeply and protects her as well as he can. His patron, the Duke of Mantua, however, is infatuated with the pretty girl and does not hesitate when the opportunity arises to s...

Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz was born in Milan in 1986, and completed his studies at the Conservatorio of Milan as a student of acclaimed musicians such as Riccardo Risaliti, Leonardo Leonardi, and Annibale Rebaudengo. He graduated with Honourable Mention and continued his piano studies at t...

Alain Altinoglu conducts the Philharmonia Zürich, Zusatzchor Opernhaus Zürich and SoprAlti der Oper Zürich in a performance of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera in five acts to the French libretto from Maurice Maeterlinck's play.

Mendelssohn's `Violin Concerto' with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, conductor Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna Perm at the Musikfest Bremen 2015.

In 1786, Mozart was invited to conduct his `Le nozze di Figaro', an opera more controversial than successful at its Viennese premiere earlier that year. The composition took the Czech capital completely by storm and resulted in the commission of a new opera, `Don Giovanni'.

Philippe Jaroussky sings Bach and Telemann in a portrait of a very special vocalist, and of two exceptional composers.