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No mortal ever played the violin better than Signor Nichola. The English rubbed their eyes in disbelief when, in the late 17th century, Nicola Matteis demonstrated his superior playing. Czech violinist Josef Žák has selected three suites from Matteis' Ayres for violin and basso continuo. He combi...

Early music specialists Le Miroir de Musique collaborate with multi-instrumentalist Baptiste Romain, performing a handful of sacred works by the 15th-century composer, music theorist, and member of the Burgundian School, Johannes Tinctoris. Though much of the composer's oeuvre has not survived, h...

In 1842, his `chamber music year', Robert Schumann composed no less than five great pieces: three string quartets, one piano quintet and one piano quartet. Apart from a single piano quartet, Schumann had never written chamber music before. Because of the small set-up, the quartet has an intimate ...

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 proceeded his piano studies at the...

From the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Paavo Järvi conducts. The Eighth Symphony was premiered in 1910 with triumphant success in Munich. Here it received its nickname Symphony of a Thousand because under the baton of the composer 1030 took part.

The ensemble YES Camerata (Young European String Camerata) and violinist William Hagen perform The Red Priest and the Tanguero at the Academiezaal in the Belgian city of Sint-Truiden in 2017.

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.

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.

Recorded live in Tel Aviv in 2006, this concert honours the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on its 70th anniversary. With conductor Zubin Mehta and soloists Pinchas Zukerman and Daniel Barenboim, the celebratory concert encompassed artistry far beyond the usual scope of music performance as it pres...

Pierre Boulez conducts the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Adagio from Mahler's Symphony No. 10 and the song cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Soloists are Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) and Christian Gerhaher (baritone).

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

The Young Euro Classic festival stays true to its mission to introduce new ideas, new works and new faces to Berlin audiences and to audiences worldwide. Everything is equally fit to arouse curiosity: a multitude of world and German premieres, large-format orchestral works by Richard Strauss, jaz...

Dina Ivanova performs Liszt'sTotentanz, Schubert and Liszt's Auf dem wasser zu singen during the Solo Finals of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.

Recorded on 27 January 2006 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday - in the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg during the Salzburg Mozart Week. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.

Featuring the life of Gustav Mahler - how anti-Semitism made his life difficult, his scandalous wedding with the femme fatale Alma Schindler and more.

German violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi bundle their forces in a concert program featuring works by Claude Debussy and César Franck, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on April 3, 2020.

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.

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...

As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer of music with repetitive structures Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass's Concerto for two pianos with the Orchester de Paris.

Ádám Fisher conducts the orchestra and choir of La Monnaie in a performance of Antonín Dvořák's (1841-1904) Rusalka, a fairytale opera in three acts. Rusalka is the composer's ninth opera and still one of the cornerstones of Czech opera houses.

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. ...

One of the most famous Austrian composers of the Classical period is Joseph Haydn. During his career he composed over a hundred symphonies which gave him the title 'Father of the Symphony', but he has also been a key figure in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. Haydn is stil...