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MOZART • BEETHOVEN • MONTREUX JAZZ • PUCCINI • VERDI • METROPOLITAN OPERA + more
Latest Additions...
• VIDEO: The Met Opera's dazzling production of Gounod's La Damnation de Faust $9.99 for 72 hours + Peter Stein's full-length staging of Goethe's Faust (in German) FREE
• COMING ON SATURDAY: QUINCY JONES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, FROM MONTREUX! FREE Watch the preview!
• VIDEO: Classical TV Presents: Our Most Popular Hits Now $1.99 for 99 hours!
Nina Simone / Luciano Pavarotti / Salzburg Festival / Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet Stravinsky Celebration / Midsummer Classics from Royal Albert Hall...
• DOCUMENTARY VIDEO: The Von Karajan Legacy FREE He was "one of the very few classical conductors ready for his close-up..."
• IN THE BLOGS: Bob Hughes on the continuing allure of Chopin...
• EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Stephen Greco speaks with director Jonathan Kent, on his spectacular production of Purcell's Fairy Queen
PLUS: MOZART, MANTOVANI, NINA SIMONE, BEETHOVEN, DANIELLE DE NIESE, NATALIE DESSAY, STING, AND MORE...
Watch Faust Stagings From Around The World on ClassicalTV
A double-y devilish video collection: The Met's enthralling Gounod grand opera, available for $9.99 for 72 hours, alongside free performances of the dark Faust-ian tale.
The Best of New York's Metropolitan Opera, in High Definition...
Watch Our Collection of Free Chopin Performances
The work of the Romantic composer, filled with beauty and pathos, still moves listeners after 150 years; our video collection features quintessential Chopin performances, all free to watch.
Put a Little Love in Your Heart
It's all about amour with these videos: Puccini's scandalous Manon Lescaut, starring Karita Mattila, along with passionate performances from Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald on the French riviera.
A Classical TV Festival of FREE Jazz Videos
From its infancy as a musical blend in the bayou, jazz has flourished to become a beloved, global genre; read our jazz feature and explore our extensive jazz performance videos
Star-Making Favorites From Classical TV's Library
From Alceste, Eugene Onegin and more, experience our very own "compilation album" of inspiring arias from some true artists of our time..
Selected from our library
...by Glenn Kurtz:
"Written in 1939 in Paris by the blind, Spanish composer, the piece combines flamenco-style rasgueados(articulated rhythmical strumming) with clean, modern (Art Deco-like!) orchestration and haunting melodic invention. In particular, the Concierto's second movement, Adagio, has found an enduring place in the world's musical consciousness, perhaps most famously as a track on Miles Davis's 1960 album, Sketches of Spain...." MORE
VIDEOS:
• Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, with Manuel Barrueco FREE
Selected by Picano from Classical TV's extensive library of great videos.
Enjoy the video and read our exclusive feature...
AND DON'T MISS: Damian Fowler selects Sylvain Cambreling conducts Schubert: Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished") and Mass in E-flat Major - (FREE)
Enjoy The Best of Classical TV
A Classical TV special: our ultimate performance arts videos at a special (ultra-affordable) price; see what you've been missing!
For your listening pleasure.
Music to work by. Our catalogue, your office or home audioscape.
Get-going inspiration, or distraction-eliminating lyricism: we serve up music to match your working tempo with a handpicked playlist of FREE videos from. New this week:
• Martha Argerich playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G - FREE
The jazzy opener of Ravel’s Gershwin-inspired concerto is perfect for tackling the email Inbox, before an inspirational interlude with the gorgeously melodies central movement.
• The Lindsay String Quartet - FREE
A rich concert of Haydn, Tippett and Elgar from the greatly admired British quartet. No chit-chat; great music.
• Vince Jones and His Band - FREE
Laid-back and mellow modern jazz, with very listenable vocals from the great Aussie songster and trumpeter. Lloyd Swanton on double bass is a treat.














