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French conductor Hervé Niquet leads the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, which he founded in 1987, for a concert at the medieval Basilique Saint-Sauveur on the stage of the fifteenth edition of Festival de Rocamadour.

In 2018, conductor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro and Mathilde Etienne created Ensemble I Gemelli, specialising in seventeenth-century Italian vocal music. From Claudio Monterverdi to Francesco Cavalli, via Giovanni Felice Sances.

Olena Tokar (soprano) and Igor Grishin (piano) perform a lieder and piano program, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on March 30, 2020. The program opens with five songs by Pauline Viardot: `Two Roses', `On Georgia's Hills', `Evening Song'.

Seiji Ozawa founded the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in 1992. As of 2015, it is better known as the Seiji Ozawa Festival. Seiji Ozawa appears on stage to passionately conducting Beethoven's `Symphony No 2' and `No 7'.

The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz won his first praise on his interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto from the composer himself. When Rachmaninoff heard the young Kiev-born pianist play his work shortly after Horowitz's arrival in New York in 1928, he exclaimed: "he swallowed ...

German baritone Dietrich Henschel and pianist Arno Waschk bundle their forces in a Lieder program featuring compositions by Hugo Wolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on April 10, 2020.

In Italy, a very exclusive club exists that comprises of only 27 members, each of whom is named after one of Verdi's operas. The club will not accept any more than 27 members, but a little boy strives to become one of them. Little Giacomo has absorbed everything Verdi and he is ready to take the ...

In this splendid 2013 concert from the Church of Verbier, Switzerland, Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and Chinese pianist Yuja Wang join forces to interpret three sonatas by Johannes Brahms. Leonidas Kavakos rose to fame in 1985, when he became the youngest musician to ever win the first prize ...

As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass' Concerto for Two Pianos with the Orchestre de Paris.

From Berlin.

Modest Mussorgsky composed `Pictures at an Exhibition' to commemorate the death of his friend and painter Viktor Hartmann. A recurrent promenade theme guides the audience along on a tour of Hartmann's paintings.

Evgeny Kissin enchants with a magnificent piano recital of works by Chopin, Schumann and Debussy at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. The Russian pianist's recitals are always a highlight of the Verbier festival. Always played to a full house, they are anticipate...

Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No 11 at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa.

Violinist Kristof Barati and Pianist Lucas Debargue pair for the first time in a duo concert at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. Although this was their inaugural collaboration, the two young artists found a perfect understanding around this romantic programme. ...

Excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos' are performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester, under the baton of Gottfried von der Goltz.

Rodolfo Barráez conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Academia de Musica del Palacia de Mineria in a performance of Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana. Soloists are soprano Anabel de la Mora, tenor Andrés Carrillo and baritone Daniel Cerón.

For the 2016 edition of the Waldbühne, the Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin join the Berliner Philharmoniker for a beautiful concert.

Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No 4 at the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janiero, Brasil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón, Francisco Roa, Fernando Thebaldi, and Hugo Pilger.

Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz plays Beethoven's `Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 13'. Born in Milan in 1986 and after graduating with Honourable Mention from the Conservatorio of Milan, he proceeded his piano studies at the Accademia Pianistica of Imola. Throughout his career, he has had the privileg...

The Ensemble Pygmalion performs Luigi Rossi's`L' Orfeo', an opera by Jetske Mijnssen and directed by Raphaël Pichon. Written by Francesco Buti and based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it is one of the earliest operas to be staged in France.

Antoni Wit conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Chopin's Piano Concertos No 1, Op 11 and No 2, Op 21. Soloists are Nikolai Demidenko and Evgeny Kissin.

The lives and work of Papa Josef Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 18th century Vienna, a dynasty was born from the unbreakable bond between these two extraordinary men of music. It was a bond forged from respect and friendship.

Chinese pianist Lang Lang performs some of the greatest works in the piano repertoire at Berghain in Berlin in 2010. The concert program includes the first movement of Piano Sonata No 23, opus 57, called Beethoven's Appassionata.

South Korean tenor Mario Bahg (1990) performs 'Il mio tesoro intanto' from W. A. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, 'Lunge da lei… De' miei bollenti spiriti… O mio rimorso!' from Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata, and 'Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre?