Unmissable masterpieces (29)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Complete Cycle of Beethoven's Symphonies

Swan Lake by Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky

Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Annabel Arden (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Danielle de Niese (Rosina), Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo), Taylor Stayton (Count Alma...

Itzhak Perlman plays Bach: Partita in D minor

A BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

• St John's Smith Square (London, Great Britain)

Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart's Requiem

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Memorial Concert

Sir Simon Rattle conducts works from the French repertoire – With the Labèque sisters

Waldbühne 2005 – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Martha Argerich plays Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1

Classic Archive

• Guild Hall (Preston, Great Britain)

John Nelson conducts Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion

With Werner Güra (The Evangelist) and Stephen Morscheck (Jesus) – Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

• Basilique de Saint-Denis (Paris, France)

Claudio Abbado and Maxim Vengerov, Gypsy

Silvesterkonzert 1996

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Bizet's Carmen

Martin Kušej (stage director), Daniel Barenboim (conductor) – With Rolando Villazón (Don José), Marina Domashenko (Carmen)... and the Staatskapelle Berlin

• Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Renaud Capuçon plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No. 2

2014 Verbier Festival

Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Cinderella by Rudolf Nureyev, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart's last three symphonies

Lucerne Festival 2013

Daniel Barenboim and Alisa Weilerstein perform Wagner, Elgar and Brahms

Europakonzert 2010, Oxford

Wagner's Die Walküre

Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Libor Pešek conducts Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From The New World"

The Prague Symphony Orchestra's Dvořák Cycle Vol. IV

• Alte Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)

Kent Nagano conducts Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Verbier Festival 2013

Verdi's La Traviata

Yutaka Sado, Peter Mussbach – Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

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

2010 Nobel Prize Concert

Christoph Prégardien and Menahem Pressler perform Schubert's Winterreise

Verbier Festival 2012

The Nutcracker by Vainonen after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Daniel Barenboim plays and conducts Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23

Berliner Philharmoniker

• Siemens-Villa (Berlin, Germany)

Charles Munch conducts Debussy and Ravel

Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1958-1961

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Riccardo Muti, Pierre Audi – With Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night) and René Pape (Sarastro)...

Valery Gergiev conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathetique"

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. The complete Tchaikovsky symphonies

• Salle Pleyel (Paris, France)

David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich play Brahms' Double Concerto and Violin Concerto

Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin

Yuri Temirkanov conducts Liadov, Rachmaninov, and Tchaikovsky – With Yuja Wang

Verbier Festival 2011

Evgeny Kissin gives an unforgettable series of encores at the 1997 BBC Proms

Royal Albert Hall

• Royal Albert Hall (London, Great Britain)