John Sykes (1909-1962) was a pianist, composer and schoolteacher. He gained his FRCO as a schoolboy and became Organ Scholar at Balliol College Oxford. Later, he studied with both Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. He spent most of his career teaching music at Kingswood School, Bath. He left behind a good deal of music, but only a handful of works were published. This recording is of songs, solo piano works and a piano duo. The songs are largely settings from William Blake's Poems of Innocence and Experience, but there are also settings of poems by Sykes's friend and contemporary, Randall Swingler.

Five-volume set of music documentaries by renowned film-maker Bruno Monsaingeon. The collection includes five features, filmed between 1989 and 2015, about Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Three concerts are also featured including Richter performing Mozart's Piano Concerto K271 in E Flat Major in 1966.

Ádám Fischer conducts the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Dvorák's opera, recorded in March 2012. Myrtò Papatanasiu performs the title role with the rest of the cast including Pavel Cernoch, Annalena Persson and Willard White.

A six-volume set of music documentaries by renowned film-maker Bruno Monsaingeon. This collection examines the life of arguably one of the most influential singers of the 20th century, the German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. In addition to singing, Fischer-Dieskau was also a conductor, writer, painter, reciter and teacher. Included here are several recitals with Lieder by Schumann and Schubert, the documentary 'Autumn Journey' and several master classes.

Christof Loy's 2012 interpretation of Puccini's opera sets the action against the backdrop of a Hollywood Western. Recorded live at the Royal Swedish Opera House, Nina Stemme takes the lead role as Minnie, who falls passionately in love with the most wanted outlaw in the West. Other cast members include John Lundgren, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Niklas Björling Rygert. The conductor is Pier Giorgio Morandi.

Andrea Battistoni leads the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera recorded live in 2012. Cast members include Roberto Aronica, Yu Guanqun, Roberto Frontali and Gabriele Mangione.