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

A year after the death of Pierre Boulez, the French Institute invites Prague director and producer Reiner Moritz to talk about the life and work of this French composer, pianist and conductor.

German violinist Isabelle Faust performs `Partita No 2 in D minor' and `Sonata No 3 in C major' from Bach's `Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin'. At St Thomas Church in Leipzig, Faust shows her mastery of Bach's technically challenging work.

American conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the Orchestre National de Lyon in a concert recorded at the Auditorium de Lyon in 2014. The concert opens with William Bolcom´s Circus Ouverture, which was specially composed for Slatkin's 70th birthday.

The trio composed of Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Elisa Eleonora Papandrea (violin) and Monaldo Braconi (piano) performs regularly in Italy's concert halls and abroad.

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.

After more than thirty years at the top Ensemble Daedalus is saying goodbye to the concert stage. That demands a fitting farewell. Roberto Festa sought and found music that mirrors his journey over three decades. With Italian carnival songs and morescas by Renaissance composers such as Barbetta, ...

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.

Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan and the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris recorded all of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in 2014-2015. Jordan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68.

The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra delivers a program entirely devoted to Mozart at the Konzerthaus in Berlin under the direction of Hartmut Haenchen. In reduced form, the ensemble brings to life the many characteristics of the music.

A concert conducted by Raúl Delgado dedicated to Mexican composers.

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'.

Claude Debussy's symphonic sketches for orchestra known collectively as `La Mer' evoke a richly varied vision of the sea.

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

Featuring 'La Bayadère', a three-act ballet by the French choreographer, Marius Petipa. Set in 19th-century India, following noble warrior, Solor and his love, Nikia, a temple dancer or 'bayadère'.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

The six suites for violoncello solo by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) are a pillar in this instrument's repertoire.

On September 19, 2012, Liège, reopened its Opera house. The season opens with Stradella, the uncompleted work of the youth of the composer César Franck, who was born and raised in Liège.

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Lang Lang under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.

Originally from Azerbaijan, Seljan Nasibli started to play the piano and violin at the age of five. After moving to England at an early age, she was encouraged to pick up music and chose to sing jazz before training classically.

Conductor Eduard Topchjan leads the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Op 14. Berlioz wrote the piece of program music in 1830 while still a conservatory student.

Soprano Ana Carolina Coutinho and pianist Megumi Kuroda perform Franz Schubert's Die Blumensprache, D 519, `Sonnenuntergang' from Viktor Ullmann's Drei Hölderlin-Lieder, and `Verschwiegene Liebe' from Hugo Wolf's.

The pianist duo Macro Sollini and Salvatore Barbatano perform several compositions by Franz Liszt. This performance was given in the Church of San Marco, in the heart of the village of Ponzano di Fermo in the Marche region, Italy.