Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Concentus musicus Wien; conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Recorded at the Baroque Cathedral of Graz, Austria, in 1986.
The most renowned stars of the Argentinean tango scene perform in the famous ballroom El Palacio in Buenos Aires.
The Zadig Trio was born when two childhood friends from France, Boris Borgolotto (violin), and Marc Girard Garcia (cello), joined musical forces with American pianist Ian Barber. Today, they have received several international prizes at competitions in France, Italy, Austria and the USA. Here, th...
Throughout the centuries, the Italian city of Naples has proved to have a remarkably favourable climate for artistic innovation.
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.
Daniil Trifonov and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu, play 'Cantus Arcticus' op. 61 by Einojuhani Rautavaara, the Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54 by Robert Schumann and the Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 43 by Jean Sibelius.
Introducing internationally renowned treasure: the Domaine Forget festival in Saint-Irénée, Québec. Domaine Forget is one of Canada's leading music academies and hosts this annual festival to promote music and dance. Every summer, 500 music students from around the world gather for an intensive c...
In this beautiful concert from the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall of Moscow, two exceptional Russian soloists join forces to interpret pieces for violin and piano by Debussy, Ravel and Beethoven.
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).
András Schiff is one of the world's most distinguished pianists, breathing life into pieces with sheer magic. Schiff, a guardian of almost-forgotten ideals of piano playing, is more than a great pianist.
Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Strauss' Horn Concerto No 1. This work is one of the most popular and frequently performed horn concertos, written in the 19th century.
Current holder of Great Organ of the Notre Dame, Olivier Latry began his musical career when he enrolled in Gaston Litaize's organ class at the Academy of Saint-Maur at the age of 16. In 1985, at 23 years of age, Latry was awarded the post of one of four titulaires des grands orgues of Notre Dame...
German violinist Veronika Eberle and Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi meet in a concert program featuring works by Mozart and Schubert, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin.
In 2013, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic closes the fourth edition of the Annecy Festival with a programme exclusively dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninov, led by Yuri Termikanov.
A look at the composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist Heitor Villa-Lobos, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887. Featuring a performance of his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano IV'.
Roberto Prosseda performs Mozart's `Piano Sonata No 5' and `Four Impromptus Op 90' by Franz Schubert. The performance ends with Chopin's technically demanding `Ballade No 4, Op 52'.
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.
Europa-Konzert 2007 took place in Berlin, on the 125th Anniversary of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
This Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 1 BWV 1014 is the fifth out of the set of sonatas Johann Sebastian Bach composed before 1725, probably during his time as chapel master in Köthen.
In days of yore we're in the square in front of Beijing's Forbidden City. Princess Turandot announces that anyone wishing to marry her must answer three riddles correctly. It's all or nothing for her suitors: failure equals death.
On January 27, 2006, Chinese virtuoso pianist Lang Lang celebrated WA Mozart's birthday with a performance of the Piano Concerto No 24 in the Forbidden City Concert Hall of Beijing with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by Long Yu.
A look at the training and professional growth necessary for opera singers, the promotion and enhancement of the cultural offers of the city and province of Modena, and the maintenance and development of the Modenese.
Few premieres will have been as troublesome as that of Igor Stravinsky's ballet `Le Sacre du Printemps'. The ballet, written for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, tells the story of a young girl that literally has to dance herself to death as a sacrifice to t...
Pianist Jonathan Ware and soprano Elsa Dreisig share the stage in performances of Edvard Grieg's `Solveig's Song', Claude Debussy's `Trois Chansons de Bilitis', Maurice Ravel's `Oiseaux Tristes', and more.