Bizet/ Staatskapelle Berlin - Opera Overtures / Choruses & DuetsFrom Mozart to Leoncavallo: three hours of opera's greatest hits in rhythmically buoyant, highly enjoyable East German recordings. Taped between 1959 (Wagner's Der fliegende Hollnder) and 1993 (Die Fledermaus), a collection of overtures gets this operatic compilation off to a (literally) flying start. Suitner in particular directs deliciously sprung performances of Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel), Smetana (The Bartered Bride) and Supp (Dichter und

his opera based on Alexander Pushkin's novel of the same name

Collins is partnered by Noriko Ogawa

Handel: Joshua / Cummings

"I Need You So" and "Since I Met My Baby"

and John Claggart

Ernest Phipps

After a whirlwind 2019 which saw Eric Luttrell release his acclaimed debut solo album Into Clouds

Here he plays on a design of the French horn that would have been a standard for the 19th century and beyond

with a spring in it's heels

Darby & Joan: Series 1 - Widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope (Greta Scacchi) is on a quest to find answers about her husband's mysterious death

two of the most promising virtuosos of the new generation and founder members of the ensemble Le Consort

produced by and starring David Hemmings (Blow Up