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From the Barockschloss in Rammenau the Gewandhaus-Quartett plays Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C-major, KV. 465.

Harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé leads Ensemble Correspondances in this concert recorded as part of the Valletta International Baroque Festival of 2017 at the Co-Cathédrale de St-Jean de la Valette in Malta.

Stephanie Tang performs John Adams' China Gates, Pour les arpèges composés from Claude Debussy's Douze Études, Ludwig van Beethoven's Variations and Fugue, Op 35, and Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 5, Op 53.

A look at the life and work of Brazilian composer and musical legend, Heitor Villa-Lobos. The composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887.

Roberto Prosseda performs Mozart's Piano Sonata No 5 (KV 283) and Four Impromptus Op 90 by Franz Schubert. The performance ends with Chopin's technically demanding Ballade No 4, Op 52.

Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

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'.

Ma mère adorait la danse `My Mother Loved Dance' documentary about Brigitte Lefebvre by Thierry Teston.

Soviet-born conductor Semyon Bychkov leads the Czech Philharmonic in a concert program dedicated to Czech composers, recorded at the Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall, Prague in 2018.

In time for his 65th birthday in 2007, pianist Daniel Barenboim rounds off a cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven piano concertos. Recorded live at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr in May 2007, a performance reflecting both an individual and unusual reading.

Clarinettist Sharon Kam, soprano Jacquelyn Wagner and pianist Matan Porat bundle their forces in this recital from Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on May 11, 2020.

The essential task viewers of Mozart's `Le Nozze di Figaro' have is to keep track of who is into who exactly. Susanna and Figaro love each other and want to get married, but that is not the end of it.

Celebrating the diversity and richness of Canada through the eyes and ears of its people.

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.

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.

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.

Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

Every two years, promising young vocalists gather in Wales' capital city to take part in one of the world's most prestigious singing competitions: the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No 9 can be seen as a farewell to life. Even as Bruckner began working on it in 1887, his health had begun to fail. He expressed the hope that God would grant him enough time to complete it, and worked on it assiduously over the next years. However, by late 1894 he had c...

Holland Baroque performs the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in 1721.

Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

Emmanuelle Haim conducts Le Concert d'Astrée in a rendition of G. F. Handel's two-part oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.

Designed by the German architect Werner March, Berlin's Waldbühne is an amphitheater that seats over 22,000 people. Since WWII, the Waldbühne has been used for a variety of events, including boxing matches and classical and rock concerts.

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'.

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester take us on a musical journey to the Czech Republic in this 2020 concert from Leipzig's Gewandhaus. The programme opens with Bohemian composer Jan Václav Hugo Voríšek's Symphony in D major.

Originally from Azerbaijan, Seljan Nasibli started to play the piano and violin at the age of five. After moving to England at an early age, she was encouraged to pick up music and chose to sing jazz before training classically.

Peter Klimo, a pianist who studied with Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music in New York, performs `Andante lagrimoso', `Étude d'exécution transcendante' No 12, and `Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude'.