Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

Fifty years after his death, this musical and psychological portrait of Ralph Vaughan Williams explores the passions that drove a giant of...

Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker hold a kind of classical-music fête with a bright, cheerful concert to end the season. In 2009 about...

Repertoire Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Antonín Dvořák: Song to the Moon from “Rusalka”, Op. 114; Aram...

The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berliner...

At the Rheingau Festival, violinist Renaud Capuçon, cellist Julia Hagen and the Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jakub Hrusa perform Brahms's...

With this performance of the Missa solemnis Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Honorary Guest Conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, once more attained...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by...

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most...

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master....

Surely Bach’s French Suites, which he composed during his years at Cöthen (1717–1723), are among the finest inducements to practise...

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of...