Zhu Xiao-Mei (piano). Recorded at the Bachfest Leipzig in the St Thomas Church. Chinese pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei occupies a unique place in the world of music.
Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra in a performance of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto No 1 with Lucas Debargue as the soloist: recorded at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow as part of the Ninth RNO Grand Festival.
Paavo Järvi conducts as the Orchestra and Choir of Paris perform Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11.
Olivier Latry, current holder of the Great Organ of Notre Dame, plays Pierre Cochereau's Boléro, Louis Vierne's Carillon of Westminster and Scherzo.
Documentary of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2004 version of Wagner's classic Parsifal.
Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Orchestre de Paris in a rendition of Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
Sergey Belyavskiy (1993, Russia) performs Rapsodie hongroise No. 9 'Carnival in Pest', S244/9 and Grandes Études de Paganini, S141 during semi-final of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017.
Canadian-Tunisian mezzo-soprano Rihad Chaieb performs `Sein wir wieder gut … Musik ist eine heilige Kunst' from Richard Strauss's opera `Ariadne auf Naxos', and `Oh rest in the Lord, wait patiently for Him' from Mendelssohn's `Elijah'.
German director Claus Guth makes his debut at the Teatro Real Madrid with a production of Richard Wagner's opera set in a World War I military hospital.
Flautist Ana de la Vega and oboist Ramón Ortega Quero performed at the Palais Lichtenau in the German city of Potsdam on 9 April 2020 without an audience because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Europa-Konzert 2007 took place in Berlin, on the 125th Anniversary of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Roberto Prosseda performs Mozart's Piano Sonata No 5 (KV 283) and four Impromptus, Op 90, by Franz Schubert. The performance finishes with Chopin's technically demanding Ballade No 4, Op 52.
Although the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi applied unsuccessfully to study at the Milan Conservatory, this renowned college of music was eventually named after him. Today, the 'Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi' counts numerous successful musicians among its alumni: from Giacomo Puccini, Alfre...
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.
This exclusive live concert production presents a unique selection of movie classics - from Sergio Leone's iconic Spaghetti Westerns to modern mafia masterpieces by Francis Ford Coppola and the cult movies of Tarantino.
Manon Lescaut, Puccini's first major success, is a work of impassioned emotions based on the 18th-century novel by Abbé Prévost, depicting the doomed infatuation of Chevalier des Grieux for beautiful, fun-loving Manon.
Gustavo Dudamel conducts mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca and the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra in a performance of classics by Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saens, Georges Bizet and Manuel de Falla.
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.
Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis leads his ensemble MusicAeterna alongside Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in a performance showcasing young, accomplished and energetic musicians. For this concert, they went searching for a new definition of the meaning of the word beauty. Th...
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.