Russian pianist Evgeni Koroliov performed Bach's Goldberg Variations, one of the most challenging works in the musical canon.

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall in this 2006 performance, with soprano Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Among the pieces played are Franz von Suppé's Light Calvary' Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, and Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Artist's Life" Waltz.

In Staatsoper Stuttgart's fantastical contemporary update of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, director Christof Nel creates characters that universalise the epic story based on Norweigan mythology and German poetry. In this story where gods, giants, dwarves, and humans vie for a special ring, made for the dwarf Alberich (though at the price of decrying all love), Jan-Hendrik Rootering plays an out-of-shape middle-aged Wotan, Renate Behle plays a rather masculine Brunnhilde, and the countless Valkyries take the form of badly-dressed teenagers.

Recorded live at Tel Aviv in 2006, this thrilling concert celebrates 70 years of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Zubin Mehta leads the famed orchestra--and players Pinchas Zukerman (violin) and Daniel Barenboim (piano)--through performances of pieces by Bruch, Ravel, and Brahms.

Franz Liszt is generally remembered as the great Hungarian 19th-century piano virtuoso, but he considered himself a composer first. His orchestra scores represent a significant stylistic link between the innovations of Berlioz and Wagner and the late Romantic composers of both Eastern and Western Europe. Written in 1854 and dedicated to Berlioz, Liszt's Eine Faust-Symphonie, which Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians calls "his orchestral masterpiece" but is very rarely performed, was a favorite of Leonard Bernstein, who spoke in his televised lectures about the work's bold harmonic language that anticipates the serialism of the Second Viennese School. In the 1960s Bernstein had to fight recalcitrant Columbia executives for the right to record the symphony with the New York Philharmonic; the resulting LP sold poorly. Nevertheless, Deutsche Grammophon gave him a second chance to sell the public on this work with this live recording of a performance at Symphony Hall, Boston, on July 26, 1976. While Bernstein never did succeed in creating for this symphony the kind of cult following he helped foster for the works of Mahler, critics generally agree that the present performance is superior to the New York version and represents the best way to experience Liszt's unique contribution to the Faust literature.

Leonard Bernstein leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No.25, recorded live in Vienna in 1987 and 1988.

A selection of Bach pieces played by various musical groups, including the Jacques Loussier Trio, Bobby McFerrin, the Quintessence Saxophone Quintet and others.