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

After almost 38 years, Sergiu Celibidache was back on the podium of the Berliner Philharmoniker, rehearsing Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. From 1946 to Wilhelm Furtwängler's return in 1952, Celibidache was the orchestra's principal conductor.

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

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.

Soprano Sarah Dufresne performs 'Eccomi in lieta vesta … Oh! Quante volte' from Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and 'Exsultate jubilate - Allegro' from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's motet Exsultate, jubilate (Exult, rejoice), K. 165.

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.

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.

In honour of Ludwig van Beethoven's 250th anniversary in 2020, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería performed Beethoven's symphonic cycle at the Academia de Música del Palacio de Minería in Mexico City in 2019.

Les Dissonances is a collective of artists founded by violinist David Grimal in 2004. The conductorless ensemble consists of musicians from the most prestigious European orchestras, international soloists, and young talents.

Olivier Latry, current holder of the Great Organ of Notre Dame, plays Pierre Cochereau's Boléro, Louis Vierne's Carillon of Westminster and Scherzo.

Celebrated German violinist Isabelle Faust performs JS Bach's `Partita No 2' in D minor. The work is made up of four dance movements and is concluded by its famous Chaconne, a monumental piece within the violin repertoire.

As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass' Concerto for Two Pianos with the Orchestre de Paris.

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

Recorded on June 30, 2014 at the Heichal Hatarbut, Tel Aviv.

Andris Nelsons's starts off his official opening concert as principal conductor of the Gewandhausorchester with the world premiere of Steffen Schleiermacher's `Relief for Orchestra'. Baiba Skride features as soloist in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto.

The Manchester Symphony Orchestra accompanies a 2006 performance of `Swan Lake on Ice' in Sydney, Australia, by the Imperial Ice Stars.

Five-strong vocal ensemble amarcord is joined by an extra alto and two soprano voices for an unusual concert at Leipzig's St Thomas Church. As amarcordplus, the ensemble presents a range of pieces centred on the city itself.

Russian conductor and pianist Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra.

A look at the composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist Heitor Villa-Lobos, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887. Featuring a performance of his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano IV'.

Minsoo Hong (1993, South Korea) performs Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 (S124) during the final of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht 2017.

Accompanied by the original music of Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Tony Mercer, the Imperial Ice Stars interpret the Swan Lake ballet.

Conrad van Alphen conducts Sinfonia Rotterdam in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385, recorded at the Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, in 2020.

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.

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

Paris, the city of love, is an excellent setting for an operetta, Franz Lehár must have thought when he was composing Die Lustige Witwe. Widow Hanna Glawari is perversely rich. The ambassador of the poverty-stricken Grand Duchy of Pontevedro wants to avoid that her money ends up in foreign hands,...

Featuring Mikhail Pletnev on piano, soprano Karita Mattila, alto Violeta Urmana, tenor Thomas Moser, bass Eike Wilm Schulte, the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor Claudio Abbado. Performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto N...

An investigation into perhaps one of the most played pieces of music in the world. A phenomenal success, leading to covers, questions concerning rights and legal disputes.

Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra in a performance of Maurice Ravel's `Piano Concerto No 1' with Lucas Debargue as the soloist. The concert opens with a selection of music by Georges.

Soprano Heidi Baumgartner and pianist Asuka Tagami perform Franz Schubert's Suleika I, Op 14 No 1, D 720, `Er ist's' from Hugo Wolf's Mörike-Lieder, Bart Visman's Vermeer's `Gold', and `Sua katselen' (Looking at you).

Featuring a performance of Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, originally published in 1910.