Arvo Pärt based his Kanon Pokajanen (from `Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ', 1995-97) on the canon of repentance as handed down in the earliest Slavic-Christian manuscripts, dating back to the sixth century after Christ. The canon symbolises the change, the transformation from day to...
Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded at the Philharmonie in Gasteig, Munich 2016.
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...
When it comes to shaping a musical event for the ears and the eyes, the monumental majesty of Anton Bruckner's symphonies and the exhilarating vibrancy of St Florian's monastery are a perfect match, especially when they are captured on film so thrillingly by such an eminent director as Brian Larg...
Between March and May 2020, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin opened its unexpectedly vacated exhibition space for a concert series in isolation. Pianist Severin von Eckardstein performs Claude Debussy's `Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune' and more.
This documentary by Christoph Keller follows various participants and teachers participating in the International Summer Piano Academy.
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.
Dina Ivanova performs Liszt'sTotentanz, Schubert and Liszt's Auf dem wasser zu singen during the Solo Finals of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.
Long before upcycling became a trend, there was Josquin Desprez. To this day, his inventiveness in processing existing musical material remains unparalleled. The Catalan bass-baritone Josep Cabré and his Companyia Musical focus on a fine example of what Josquin was capable of: the Missa Fortuna d...
Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra perform Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust."
One of today's most distinguished conductors, Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in a performance featuring works from the oeuvre of Johannes Brahms. The concert begins with the Academic Festival Overture, written in honour of the University of Breslau, which awarded the composer ...
A concert including the following works: the Piano Concerto by Maurice Ravel in G major and two works by Gabriela Montero. Montero will be on stage as a pianist herself together with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.
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.
Cameras follow the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra on its musical journey and capture interviews with the musicians.
Over the course of 19 days, the best youth orchestras in the world led by great conductors, and flanked by virtuoso soloists, guaranteed exciting and inspiring concert performances at the Young Euro Classical 2017.
Hao Zhou performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, Op 77 during the finals of the 2019 Violin Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal. He is accompanied by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
An exclusive live concert production presents a mixture of the wild wild west with the soulful sound of Italy.
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 the...
The Kathleen Tagg and Andre Petersen piano duo brings together two of South Africa's most celebrated pianists: one eclectic-experimental classical and one jazz artist, in a unique and highly personal collaboration.
Based on a story by William Shakespeare, the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote the opera Otello. Stage director David Alden created his version of this tragedy for the Teatro Real, in Madrid. Renato Palumbo conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real. The performance also features Gr...
To transcend the political and ideological divides between their respective countries, Daniel Barenboim, an Argentinian Jew and Israel's most famous pianist and conductor, and Edward Said, a Palestinian philosopher and Christian, created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an ensemble of young musi...
A look at the composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist Heitor Villa-Lobos, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887. Featuring his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano V'.
Andris Nelsons, together with his then-wife, the great soprano Kristine Opolais and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present a program dedicated to Antonin Dvořák, singing the melodies that the composer hid in all layers of his music.
Over the course of eleven days in August 2020, the French town of Rocamadour hosted the fifteenth edition of Festival de Rocamadour, a music festival dedicated to sacred music from the classical, baroque, and romantic periods.