Alessandro Sangiorgi conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Sofia National Opera in this production of Verdi's opera, recorded at the medieval stronghold of the Tsaverets Fortress in Veliko Tamovo, Bulgaria in 2011. The soloists featured include Orlin Anastasov, Ventsalav Anastasov and Radostina Nikolaeva.

Four performances of works by Robert Schumann. András Schiff plays 'Kreisleriana op.16' and 'Symphonic Etudes op.13' in a performance recorded in 1990. Also featured are Zoltan Kocsis performing 'Kindersceneand' in 1990, and the Takács Quartet performing 'Piano Quintet op.44' in 1991.

Kent Nagano leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Mussorgsky's opera, recorded live at the Nationaltheater, Munich in 2007. Doris Soffel stars as Marfa, with Anatoly Kotscherga as the religious leader Dosifei, Klaus Florian Vogt as Andrey, and Paata Burchuladze as the charismatic Prince Ivan Khovansky.

Recorded live at the Verbier Festival in 2011, German pianist Lars Vogt plays a selection of works by Janácek, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart and Chopin. Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts. The works featured are: Janácek: In the Mists; Schubert: Piano Sonata in G major, D. 894; Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111; Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 117 No. 1; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16 in D major, K. 451 and Chopin: Nocturne No. 20, Op. posth.

The celebrated Hungarian pianist András Schiff plays a selection of popular Bach keyboard pieces recorded in 1989. The featured works are: 'Italian' Concerto, BWV 971; Capriccio in B flat major, BWV 992; Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816, and Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903.

The Kreutzer Quartet performs four 20th century pieces written for string quartet. The quartet, comprised of Peter Sheppard Skærved on violin, Mihailo Trandafilovski on violin, Morgan Goff on viola and Neil Heyde on cello, apply their talents to Stravinsky's 'Three Pieces for String Quartet' (1914), Lutoslawski's 'String Quartet' (1964), Ligeti's 'String Quartet No. 2' (1968) and Finnissy's 'Second String Quartet' (2007).

Ole Anders Tandberg's visually striking debut production for Norwegian National Opera. Recorded live in 2010, Birgitte Christensen, Jacek Laszczkowski and Tim Mead head an international cast, with Allesandro De Marchi conducting.

A musical profile of the influential American minimalist composer Steve Reich. Looking back over his 40-year career, the film traces the creative process, from his earliest experiments with analogue tapes, to today's use of modern technology and sampling techniques.