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In just a few years, through her international concert appearances and her award-winning recordings, 29 year-old Lise de la Salle has established a reputation as one of today’s most exciting young artists and as a …

Carlos Kleiber was born on July 3rd, 1930 in Berlin, Germany and he ultimately became one of the greatest orchestral conductors of the 20th century. As the Nazi’s emerged in Europe, the Kleiber family moved …

Cellist Amanda Forsyth plays a rare Italian cello made in 1699 by Carlo Giuseppe Testore. We can hear this Cello in the Double Concerto by Johannes Brahms. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman handles the violin part… The Concerto …

Edward Gardner’s ‘Mendelssohn in Birmingham’ series features a recording of Overtures. As with the previous volumes, a reduced size CBSO join Gardner in Birmingham Town’s Hall, where Mendelssohn himself conducted many of the UK premieres …

The DVD of the Month for July 2019 is Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. The British Press had some excellent things to write about for this performance: Olga Busuioc’s ‘performance <as Cio Cio San> of sustained dramatic …