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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...

This live from performance from 2017 marks Fabio Luisi's very first concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in DR Koncerthuset, Copenhagen. Beethoven's fantastic Eroica symphony is a milestone in classical music, and with Stravinsky's mighty Symphony of Psalms and Strauss' virtuosic D...

Ester Hoppe, Christian Poltéra and Francesco Piemontesi perform Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 100 (D. 929) during the International Chamber Music Festival in Bellinzona, Switzerland in 2019. This trio was among the last compositions completed by Schubert and is dated November 1827. It was publ...

A look at the life and work of the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, taking the viewer on a journey through the the experiences of a legend of the classical music scene in Brazil.

Every year in late August, the renowned Early Music Festival takes place in the Dutch city of Utrecht. It is the world's largest festival focused on early music, attracting an audience of over 70 thousand visitors.

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in this powerful performance taken from the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Denmark's national composer, Carl Nielsen. Alongside Nielsen's inscrutably ironic Symphony No. 6, this performance features world-renowned French pianist Lise ...

Dina Ivanova performs Wagner/Liszt - Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde, S447 and Grandes Études de Paganini, S141 during semi-final I (transcription) of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.

The Belgian composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry composed his version of Guillaume Tell. This opéra comique in three acts is performed at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, in Liège, under the baton of Claudio Scimone. Soloists are Marc Laho, Anne-Catherine Gillet, Lionel Lhote, Liesbeth Devos, and Pat...

Patrick Debrabandere leads the Vox Mago chamber choir in a performance of a cantata by Georg Philipp Telemann's (1681-1767) recorded in Ghent, Belgium, in 2018.

`Die Walküre' continues the story of the Rhinedaughters' gold, the ring of power forged from it, and the curse which falls on its owner. The action moves to earth, where Siegmund and Sieglinde, the mortal children of Wotan, are introduced.

German baritone Dietrich Henschel and pianist Arno Waschk bundle their forces in a Lieder program featuring compositions by Hugo Wolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on April 10, 2020.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmonic during the 2008 edition of the Europakonzert, held in the renowned hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. The first edition of the Europakonzert was in 1991, and since then, the founding of the Berlin Philharmonic on 1 May 1882 is annua...

Dina Ivanova (1994, Russia) performs Liszt'sTotentanz (S525), Schubert/Liszt - Auf dem wasser zu singen (S558/2) and Erlkönig (S558/4) during the Solo Finals of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.

This is a review of what television brought to musical life over the years, from formats such as "Last Night of the Proms" or the New Year's Concert to building priceless archives with Stravinsky conducting his own Firebird.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Metropolitan Opera in this performance of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila. The source of this popular opera is a single chapter in the biblical Book of Judges: Samson, a pre-monarchic leader of the ancient Israelites, fights valiantly against the Philistines, enemies of ...

The Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin join the Berliner Philharmoniker for a beautiful concert performance in an all Czech program.

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.

The Easter Festival is an internationally renowned event among classical music lovers, traditionally opened in Moscow on Easter Sunday.

The Boy with the Wig: Kids on Mozart explores children's fascination with the composer. The 30-minute film features boys and girls aged between eight and eleven recounting his life through humour and serious interpretations of Mozart's biography.

Two musical friends go on a wondrous journey through the world of Saint-Saëns's `The Carnival of the Animals', a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements.

Baritone Thomas Hampson and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra perform Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen under the direction of Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990). This 1990 concert was filmed in the great hall of Vienna's legendary Musikverein. This cycle is composed of four songs, whose...