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Das Rheingold (About this soundpronunciation The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 22 September 1869, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, on 13 August 1876.

Simon Russell Beale presents the unique production at the Royal Albert Hall with Gareth Malone's Proms Military Wives Choir, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Cambiata Choir North West, alongside the National Theatre Ensemble with the astonishing Handspring Puppets. There's even a role for writer Michael Morpurgo as himself. Composer Adrian Sutton's War Horse Suite traces the story of Joey the horse from birth to death, the specially commissioned Some See Us is a haunting tribute to the young men slaughtered in World War I, and his elegiac Only Remembered bookends the show. Interweaved is music from composers influenced by the war, including Holst, Elgar and Ravel.

«I am a pianist sitting on the West with my hands in the East looking at the North Star smelling the scents of the South». Piano improviser, clavichordist, composer and writer. He started studying piano when he was four years old and from 1986 he is author to ballets, operas, music for theatre and special projects performed worldwide.

Live at the Regal is a 1965 live album by American blues guitarist and singer B.B. King. It was recorded on November 21, 1964 at the Regal Theater in Chicago.

A legendary live recording. On January of 1991, George Dalaras (Γιώργος Νταλάρας) and Vassilis Papakonstantinou (Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου), two top greek singers have decided to give a series of live performances together at Attikon, a cetral theatre in Athens. In their multi-year (more than 40 each) careers, this is the only time they performed together. A live recording that is considered as a masterpiece of the whole greek discography. Enjoy wonderful greek music and nice scans of the included booklet.

The music of Bohemian composer Antonín Dvorák is suffused with natural nobility, fluency and freshness, and embodies the spirit of his native land. This revealing biography portrays Dvorák as a complex and wide-ranging composer, and explores the creation and performance of his music as well as its reception on both sides of the Atlantic, tracing his art in all its richness and variety. Musical excerpts include the Cello Concerto, the ‘New World’ Symphony and the Slavonic Dances, as well as selected chamber pieces, songs, opera excerpts, and narrated by Nicholas Boulton.