The first volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction. The operas included are: 'Oberto', 'Un Giorno di Regno', 'Nabucco', 'I Lombardi', 'Ernani', 'I due Foscari', 'Giovanni d'Arco', 'Alzira' and 'Attila'.

Seiji Ozawa leads the orchestra and chorus in Laurent Pelly's production of Janácek's fantasy opera, recorded live at Florence's Teatro Comunale in 2009. Armenian/Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the lead role as the vixen, with American Quinn Kelsey as the gamekeeper.

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.

Mojca Erdmann, Elin Rombo and Virpi Raisänen lead the cast in this world premiere performance of Wolfgang Rihm's operatic fantasy, recorded live at the 2010 Salzburg Festival. Based on Nietzsche's late cycle of poems 'Dionysus-Dithyrambs', the performance features distinctive staging by Jonathan Meese. Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Deutsches Symphonieorchester.

In a series of live recordings made between 1983-1984 in Austria, Daniel Barenboim performs Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 29-32.

In a series of live recordings made between 1983-1984 in Austria, Daniel Barenboim performs Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 22-28.