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Marin Alsop conducts Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, and Ravel

Britten-Pears Orchestra

• Snape Maltings Concert Hall (Aldeburgh, Great Britain)

Perlman, Zukerman, Du Pré, Mehta, and Barenboim rehearse and perform Schubert's "Trout" Quintet

A film by Christopher Nupen

• Queen Elizabeth Hall (London, Great Britain)

Claudio Abbado conducts Berg, Schubert, and Mahler – With Renée Fleming

Gala concert of the Lucerne Festival 2005

Swan Lake by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Saint-Saëns and Schumann – With Mischa Maisky

Verbier Festival 2015

Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 and Papillons, Op. 2

A film by Christopher Nupen

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, Renaud Capuçon play Bartók's sonatas

Verbier Festival 2007

Neeme Järvi and Khatia Buniatishvili perform Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3

Verbier Festival 2011

Yuja Wang plays Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, and Ravel

Verbier Festival 2008

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts R. Strauss, Berlioz, and Schumann – With Joyce DiDonato

Verbier Festival 2015

The Ébène Quartet plays Haydn and Mendelssohn

Verbier Festival 2013

Valery Gergiev conducts Shchedrin and Rimsky-Korsakov

Verbier Festival 2018

A day with Yuja Wang II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2008-2020

A day with Yuja Wang I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with Mischa Maisky II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 1995-2020

A day with Mischa Maisky I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with the Pianists of Verbier II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2007-2020

A day with the Pianists of Verbier I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with the Verbier Generation: Festival discoveries II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2007-2020

A day with the Verbier Generation: Festival discoveries I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with Leonidas Kavakos II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2010-2020

A day with Leonidas Kavakos I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2008-2020

A day with Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with Mikhail Pletnev II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 2013-2020

A day with Mikhail Pletnev I: Brand-new moments at the Virtual Verbier Festival

Virtual Verbier Festival 2020

A day with Verbier Singers II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Verbier Festival 1995-2020

Evgeny Kissin plays Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and incredible encores

From the Roman Theatre of Orange in the south of France

• Orange Roman Theatre (Orange, France)

Ashkenazy plays Beethoven

A recital in Essex filmed by Christopher Nupen

• University of Essex (Essex, Great Britain)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 5

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Daniel Barenboim conducts Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Lutosławski – With Martha Argerich

Salzburg Festival

Mozart's Idomeneo

Peter Sellars (stage director), Teodor Currentzis (conductor) — With Russell Thomas (Idomeneo), Paula Murrihy (Idamante), Ying Fang (Ilia)...

Carmen by Johan Inger, music by Shchedrin after Bizet

Kayoko Everhart (Carmen), Daan Vervoort (Don José), Leona Sivôs (the child), Isaac Montllor (Escamillo), Toby William Mallitt (Zuniga)

• La Coursive (La Rochelle, France)

A Stravinsky Journey — With Michael Tilson Thomas

New World Symphony

Valery Gergiev conducts Beethoven and Mahler — With Daniel Lozakovich

Münchner Philharmoniker

The Little Mozarts

A moving documentary by Guillaume de Ginestel

Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 and Papillons, Op. 2

A film by Christopher Nupen

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra

Andreas Kriegenburg (stage director), Valery Gergiev (conductor) — With Luca Salsi (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Rebeka (Amelia Grimaldi), René Pape (Jacopo F...

Mass b by Béatrice Massin, music by Bach and Ligeti

Compagnie Fêtes Galantes

• Théâtre national de Chaillot (Paris)

Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn — With Matthias Goerne

Lucerne Festival 2015

Gidon Kremer: Finding Your Own Voice

Portrait of a world-class violinist, from Paris to Riga and Moscow

Fabio Luisi conducts Orff's Carmina Burana

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

• DR Koncerthuset (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Herbert von Karajan conducts two masterpieces by J.S. Bach – With Anne-Sophie Mutter

Berliner Philharmoniker

Neeme Järvi: One Thousand and One Nights — With Janine Jansen

Waldbühne 2006: Sheherazade, An Oriental Night — Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Sakari Oramo conducts Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Sibelius — With Joshua Bell

2010 Nobel Prize Concert

Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Berliner Philharmoniker

Zubin Mehta conducts Saint-Saëns, Chopin, Chausson, and Beethoven — With Julian Rachlin, Evgeny Kissin, and Vadim Repin

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's 75th Anniversary

• Hangar 11 (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Yehudi Menuhin plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis

Christian Ferras plays Franck and Stravinsky

Orchestre de l'ORTF, Jean Fournet (conductor) - Pierre Barbizet (piano)

Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"

Lucerne Festival 2003

Herbert von Karajan and Anne-Sophie Mutter perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto

Berliner Philharmoniker

Nathan Milstein and Georges Pludermacher play Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata

Nathan Milstein's last recital

Valery Gergiev and Leonidas Kavakos perform Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

• Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall (St Petersburg, Russia)

Claudio Abbado and Maxim Vengerov, Gypsy

Silvesterkonzert 1996

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Verdi's La Traviata

Simon Stone (stage director), Michele Mariotti (conductor) – With Pretty Yende (Violetta Valéry), Benjamin Bernheim (Alfredo Germont), Jean‑François Lapoin...

Puccini's Turandot

Franco Zeffirelli (stage director), Giuliano Carella (music director) – WIth Maria Guleghina (Princess Turandot), Salvatore Licitra (Calaf), Tamar Iveri (L...

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Jean-Louis Grinda (stage director), Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) – With Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Patrizia Ciofi (Donna Anna), Sonya Yoncheva (Donna El...

Massenet's Manon

Vincent Huguet (stage director), Dan Ettinger (conductor) — With Pretty Yende (Manon), Benjamin Bernheim (Le chevalier des Grieux)...

Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades

Gilbert Deflo (stage director), Michael Boder (conductor) – With Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Liza) and Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky) – Gran Teat...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Wagner's Rienzi

Jorge Lavelli (stage director), Pinchas Steinberg (conductor) – With Torsten Kerl (Rienzi) and Marika Schönberg (Irène)... – Théâtre du Capitole

• Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse, France)

Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Ed Lyon (Hippolytus), Christiane Karg (Aricia), Sarah Connolly (Phaedre)...

Handel's Alcina

Adrian Noble, Marc Minkowski – Anja Harteros (Alcina), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero)... – Wiener Staatsoper

• Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna, Austria)

Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos

Katharina Thoma (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Soile Isokoski (Ariadne)...