British Composers (20)

Jean Tubéry conducts Purcell

La Fenice - Lyon Baroque Music Festival 2011

• Chapelle de la Trinité (Lyon, France)

George Benjamin's Written on Skin

George Benjamin (conductor), Katie Mitchell (stage director) – With Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès)...

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

• 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 Indian Queen

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

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Purcell's The Fairy Queen

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

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Wayne McGregor (stage director), Christopher Hogwood (conductor) – With Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sarah Connolly (Dido)

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

Handel's Rodelinda

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

Handel's Admeto

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

• Opernhaus Halle (Halle, Germany)

Handel's Hercules

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

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

London Philharmonic Orchestra

• Royal Festival Hall (London, Great Britain)

Britten's Peter Grimes

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

• Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, 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 Death in Venice

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

• English National Opera (London, Great Britain)

Britten's The Turn of the Screw

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

Teodor Currentzis conducts Shostakovich and Britten – With Steven Isserlis

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Bruges – KlaraFestival 2013

George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence

George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) – With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger)...

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