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Seong-Jin Cho performs Claude Debussy's `Images', `Books 1 & 2' by Robert Schumann, `Fantasiestücke op.12' Frédéric Chopin and `Piano Sonata no 3 in B minor op.58' by Franz Liszt.

With her superb technique, intelligence, taste and refinement, Carole Cerasi is the dream interpreter for Couperin's second book, Pièces de Clavecin. More so than the first part, which is a compendium of older compositions, this volume indicates the path the composer now wished to take: style and...

Wouter Bergenhuizen (1988, The Netherlands) performs Paganini's Great Studies, S141 and Pilgrimage Years: Second Year (Italy), No. 1 Sposalizio, S161/1 during semi-final I of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 2017.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmonic during the 2008 edition of the Europakonzert, held in the renowned hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. The first edition of the Europakonzert was in 1991 and since then the founding of the Berlin Philharmonic on 1 May 1882 is annuall...

Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's `Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125'. The European Concert has been a tradition of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1991. The musicians commemorate the anniversary of the orchestra's founding on ...

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'.

The Valerius Ensemble played a concert in Concordia, Enschede on April 23, 2018. The program consists of Mozart's Flute Quartet No 1, K 285 and the Romanzo from Von Dohnányi's Serenade Op 10.

Millions of television viewers in Germany, France, Portugal, Greece and Finland experienced live the moving open-air concert within the highly symbolic surrounding of the Alhambra in Granada. Music as a language of peace - this vision unifies the young musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestr...

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...

Josquin des Prez used the same melody twice to compose masses. Lionel Meunier, Marco Mencoboni and Katharina Bäuml perform the second of these compositions: `L'homme armé sexti toni'.

One of the most famous Austrian composers of the classical period is Joseph Haydn. During his career he composed over 100 symphonies which gave him the title `Father of the Symphony', but he has also been a key figure in developing chamber music.

Misha Fomin in concerto from the Concertgebouw.

Frank Scheffer presents an intimate portrait of John Cage, one of the 20th century's best composers. From 1982 to 1992, Scheffer worked with Cage on numerous occasions, which resulted in unique archives of historical audio-visual material.

This 2016 concert at Chambord Castle in France under the direction of Hervé Niquet features 70 musicians that gave a spectacular performance of Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

In this exquisite 2016 concert from Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Russian National Orchestra and star-pianist Boris Berezovsky are led by conductor Mikhail Pletnev in a performance of magnificent works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Ensemble Offspring is Australia's foremost new music ensemble, based in Sydney. The ensemble features a line-up of internationally acclaimed core instrumentalists, Claire Edwardes (percussionist/artistic director), Zubin Kanga (piano), Jason Noble (clarinet), and Lamorna Nightingale (flute).

After performances at the famous `Stars of the White Nights' Festival held in St. Petersburg and the 1991 - 92 festival dedicated to Prokofiev, this outstanding new staging of `Betrothal in a Monastery' was recorded at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream - Psalm 114, Op. 51 Da Israel aus Ägypten zog (When Israel went out from Egypt) - Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise).

Behind the scenes at the Zurich Opera House, one of the most renowned in Europe, where fifteen premiers are staged each year. An insight into the curtain to understanding an opera house's many exciting facets.

One of the most famous Austrian composers of the classical period is Joseph Haydn. During his career he composed over 100 symphonies which gave him the title `Father of the Symphony', but he has also been a key figure in developing chamber music.