Beth Gibbons (vocalist for acclaimed UK band Portishead) was formally invited to Poland in 2014 to sing soprano at Warsaw’s Grand Theatre. This performance forms the basis of the film and album titled Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) performed by Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.

The 1987 Glyndebourne production of Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, designed by Maurice Sendak a...
Performed by pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Tomáš Netopi...
Bluebeard, an opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, premiered in Paris in 1866. Directed by Laurent Pel...
The French orchestra Les Siecles is spoken of exclusively in superlatives. Critics, but above all li...
B. Britten's famous opera, which became a major theatrical event in its production by the National T...

Antony Tudor's 1942 ballet "Pillar of Fire" in a 1973 performance with American Ballet Theater.

Verdi's sweepingly ambitious opera on war, religion, love and fate is given a cinematic staging by C...

The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of b...

In 2007, the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrated their 125th anniversary. Film director Enrique Sánch...


The evocative music of Claude Debussy has been described as the foundation of modern music. But how ...

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening ill...
Edward Elgar – Oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra, Op. 38, The Dream of Gerontius. Recording...