British Composers (18)

Britten's The Rape of Lucretia

Fiona Shaw (stage director), Leo Hussain (conductor) – With Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus)...

Leonard Bernstein conducts Elgar's Enigma Variations

BBC Symphony Orchestra (1982)

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

Handel's Giulio Cesare

David McVicar (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra)...

Purcell's The Fairy Queen

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Lucy Crowe, Ed Lyon, Adrian Ward...

Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Jonathan Kent (stage director), Jakub Hruša (conductor) – With Miah Persson (The Governess), Toby Spence (Prologue/Peter Quint)...

Britten's Death in Venice

Edward Gardner, Deborah Warner – With John Graham-Hall (Gustav von Aschenbach) – English National Opera

• English National Opera (London, Great Britain)

Britten's Billy Budd

Michael Grandage (stage director), Mark Elder (conductor) – With Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), John Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere)...

Britten's Peter Grimes

Margaret Williams, Steuart Bedford – With Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) – Aldeburgh Festival

• Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, Great Britain)

Sir Georg Solti conducts Elgar: Symphonie No. 2, Enigma Variations

London Philharmonic Orchestra

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

Handel's Hercules

William Christie, Luc Bondy – With William Shimell (Hercules) and Joyce DiDonato (Dejanira)

Handel's Admeto

Howard Arman, Axel Köhler – Gerd Vogel (Meraspe), Melanie Hirsch (Orindo) – Opernhaus Halle

• Opernhaus Halle (Halle, Germany)

Handel's Rodelinda

Claus Guth (stage director), Ivor Bolton (musical director) – Lucy Crowe (Rodelinda), Bejun Mehta (Bertarido), Jeremy Ovenden (Grimoaldo), Sonia Prina (Edu...

Jean Tubéry conducts Purcell

La Fenice. Lyon Baroque Music Festival, 2011

• Chapelle de la Trinité (Lyon, France)

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Christopher Hogwood, Wayne McGregor – Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sarah Connolly (Dido) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Purcell's The Indian Queen

Teodor Currentzis (conductor), Peter Sellars (stage director) – Julia Bullock (Doña Luisa), Nadine Koutcher (Doña Isabel) – Teatro Real Madrid

• Teatro Real Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Teodor Currentzis conducts Shostakovich and Britten – With Steven Isserlis

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Bruges – KlaraFestival 2013

• Concertgebouw (Bruges, Belgium)

Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams

London Philharmonic Orchestra

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

A Portrait of John Tavener

A documentary by Werner Weick