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Many Happy Returns to Pascal Rogé, 75 today. French Fancies – Liszt & Brahms – Bartók Piano Concerto No.1 (LSO/Walter Weller) – Fauré.

Apr 6, 2026 | News, Videos

RELEASED TODAY, Friday April 3: Decca releases Pascal Rogé playing Fauré’s Thirteen Barcarolles and – with Elena Font – Dolly...

A selection of Sinfonias from Bach’s Sunday-morning Cantatas, as recorded by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Apr 5, 2026 | Videos

The above cover is used for convenience, for this hour-long compilation is personal rather than commercial. The Sinfonias are identified during the...

Eugene Ormandy’s 1968 Philadelphia Orchestra recording for CBS of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passion according to Saint John/St John Passion, BWV245.

Apr 5, 2026 | Column Honoree Eugene Ormandy, Videos

Judith Raskin, soprano; Ancilla Maureen Forrester, contralto Richard Lewis, tenor; Evangelist George Shirley, tenor; Servus Norman Treigle, bass; Jesus Tomas Paul, bass; Petrus/Pilatus Suzanne Bloch, lute; Samuel Mayes, cello; Robert Plimpton, organ; William Smith,...

Music for Easter Sunday.

Apr 5, 2026 | Videos

Edward Johnson writes… Rimsky-Korsakov: “Russian Easter Festival Overture” … Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra – 10 April 2007 … Filmed from behind the orchestra … Bach-Stokowski: Chorale from the “Easter Cantata” …...

Berliner Philharmoniker – Digital Concert Hall webcast of Brahms Ensemble Berlin – Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Brahms. Recorded January 15/broadcast April 4 @ 6 p.m. BST & repeated April 5 @ midday.

Apr 4, 2026 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

The Berliner Philharmoniker has been performing at the 2026 Salzburg Easter Festival since March 27 (with no doubt certain theatre rehearsals before then) and completes its stint there in a couple of days’ time. Das Rheingold was the opera (staged, directed by...

New on Digital Concert Hall: “First time in Japan – the Berliner Philharmoniker and Karajan in Tokyo in 1957”. Subscription to DCH probably needed.

Apr 4, 2026 | Videos

“It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship that transcended borders: in October 1957, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan travelled to Japan for the first time. The orchestra and its chief conductor were greeted at Tokyo airport as if they...