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Soloist Radu Lupu performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No 19, KV 459 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, under the baton of David Zinman, taking place at the Imperial Hall in Munich.

French conductor Hervé Niquet leads the ensemble Le Concert Spirituel, which he founded in 1987, for a concert at the medieval Basilique Saint-Sauveur on the stage of the fifteenth edition of Festival de Rocamadour.

Krzysztof Książek performs J S Bach's `Prelude and Fugue' in B minor, BWV 869, Karol Szymanowski's Mazurkas, Op 50 (Nos 1 to 4), and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux, Op 33, during the semi-finals.

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.

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.

The 2017 Prague Spring festival is brought to a powerful close as Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Choir in a performance of his monumental seventh symphony Seven Gates of Jerusalem. This work bears witness to an introspective thought about...

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.

Featuring discussions about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 5'.

The Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos' String Quartet No 13. The quartet, existing of Carla Rincón, Francisco Roa, Fernando Thebaldi, and Hugo Pilger, was founded in 2006.

Under the direction of Conrad van Alphen, the Sinfonia Rotterdam Orchestra performs Haydn's Symphony No. 45 at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague.

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

In the impressive Jacobi Church, artist in residence Marco Mencoboni has Francesco Durante's requiem sung with an orchestra, soloists, two choirs and a pair of French horns in the leading role, along with the breathtaking Valentina Mastrangelo.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847): Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream - Psalm 114, Op. 51 Da Israel aus Ägypten zog (When Israel went out from Egypt) - Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise).

Leonard Bernstein recorded all of Mahler's symphonies between 1971 and 1985, producing a unique musical document. This recording of the Fifth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was filmed at the Vienna Musikvereinssaal.

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester perform a concert from Leipzig's Gewandhaus. The performance includes Jan Václav Hugo Voríšek's `Symphony in D major' and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's `Symphony No 38'.

The Valerius Ensemble, consisting of Eeva Koskinen (violin), René Geesing (cello) and Ingo Lulofs (piano) play Rachmaninoff's Trio élégiaque Nr 1 and the Finale of Dvořák's Piano Trio No3, Op 65.

This `Fantastic Symphony' is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its dream-like nature.

Piano soloist Boris Berezovsky is accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Sladkovsky in a performance of Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no. 1, Op. 1.

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

This concert entitled `Liszt Mosaics' is dedicated to the rich traditional of Hungarian Folk Music. The concert opens with a selection of Bartók's 44 Duos for 2 Violins (No. 17, 18, 36 and 44) performed by Shlomo Mintz and Radics Ferenc.

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...

Chinese pianist Ying Li performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's `Sonata No 13 in B-flat major' and Béla Bartók's `Sonata, BB 88, Sz.80' at the Nuovo Teatro Ariberto in Milan in June 2021.

GayBird Leung and the Zephyr Quartet perform Leung's composition `Music in Anticlockwise'. GayBird Leung has worked in the Hong Kong music industry since 1996 as a music director, composer and producer for over a hundred music productions. He continues to explore the realm of music creation, inve...

Celebrated German violinist Isabelle Faust performs JS Bach's `Sonata No 3' in C major, a piece that includes an extensive fugue in which Bach employs many contrapuntal techniques.

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

Giuseppe Verdi's popular opera La Traviata performed outdoors at the St. Margarethen Festival in 2008 by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ernst Märzendorfer.

In 1996, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala led by maestro Zubin Mehta. This musical event features world-renowned soloists, including veteran violinist Isaac Stern, up-and-coming musicians Maxim Vengerov and Gil Shaham, as well as Pinchas Zukerman, Shlo...

Behind-the-scenes of the Teatro Regio Torino and bearing witness to the enviable reputation that has prevailed since its opening in 1740. It is both a symbol of excellence and a prestigious stage hosting operas, ballets, concerts, and musicals.

Iván Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a concert recorded at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest, Hungary in 2015, opening with Sergei Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op 34.

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.

Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin with the New York Philharmonic.