Stingray Classica

The polyphonist Johannes Ockeghem is responsible for the very first complete and polyphonic requiem. His pioneering composition smoothed the way for Pierre de La Rue.

Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann and conductor/pianist András Schiff team up for a concert at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. András Schiff's versatile artistry excels both as pianist and conductor, as this programme illustrates. He is joined by Vilde Frang, a sup...

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...

Vladimir Ashkenazy performs as a soloist and conductor in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 12, KV 414. He is accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hampton Court Palace, London.

Exploring whether citation is plagiarism. It was not in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Composers cut, pasted, and conjured with existing melodies and created new works from historical material.

Simon Rattle conducts as the Berlin Philharmonic perform Rachmaninoff's `Symphony No. 2, Op. 27'.

Beatrice Rana, piano, plays the 'Flower Piece' op. 19 and the Symphonic Etudes op. 13 by Robert Schumann, 'Miroirs' by Maurice Ravel and the 'Firebird Suite' by Igor Stravinsky.

Excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos' are performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester, under the baton of Gottfried von der Goltz.

The Ensemble Pygmalion performs Luigi Rossi's`L' Orfeo', an opera by Jetske Mijnssen and directed by Raphaël Pichon. Written by Francesco Buti and based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, it is one of the earliest operas to be staged in France.

Critics praise her, and the audience loves her. Kristine Opolais, the prima donna and the star of the New York Metropolitan Opera, performs in her home country Latvia. She gives a splendid concert with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman and the Berlin Philharmonic perform the Violin Concerto, Op 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Beethoven dedicated his Violin Concerto to his colleague Franz Clement, a prominent violinist of the time. The piece was presented in Vi...

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...

Stefano Montanari conducts the Orchestra Choirs and Children's chorus of the Lyon Opera in a performance of Bizet's Carmen. The main soloists are Josè Maria Lo Monaco (Carmen), Yonghoon Lee (Don José), and Giorgio Caoduro (Escamillo).

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...

Alain Altinoglu conducts the Philharmonia Zürich, Zusatzchor Opernhaus Zürich and SoprAlti der Oper Zürich in a performance of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, an opera in five acts to the French libretto from Maurice Maeterlinck's play.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Carl Orff's rousing and popular choral work Carmina Burana. With soloists Sally Matthews, Lawrence Brownlee and Christian Gerhaher.

Mozart's `Le nozze di Figaro' asks basic questions about the relationships of men and women, the aristocracy and their servants, and is, to this day, the most mature and genuine human operatic composition ever written. With sublimely beautiful music that supports, intensifies, and enhances the dr...

Sergey Belyavskiy performs at the semifinals at the Liszt Piano Competition.