Emmanuel Pahud celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Frederick the Great with a concert recorded live 16 October 2011 in the Royal Theatre of Potsdam's Neues Palais at Sanssouci. The program features concerti, sonatas, and unaccompanied works by Frederick the Great, Quantz, Benda, and C.P.E. Bach. Trevor Pinnock conducts the Kammerakademie Potsdam.

Handel's 1724 opera Tamerlano followed the success of his previous year's Giulio Cesare with another colourful historical costume drama. This time the setting is the court of "Timur the Tartar", who has just defeated the Turkish Sultan Bajazet at the battle of Angora. There are, naturally enough, romantic complications when both Tamerlano and his ally, the Greek Prince Andronico, fall in love with Bajazet's daughter Asteria. She, however, has plans to revenge her father's defeat. This production was directed by Jonathan Miller and staged in the intimate surroundings of the Goethe Theatre of Bad Lauchstadt as part of the 2001 Halle Handel Festival.

Recorded at Germany's Mainz Cathedral, this inspirational concert video features the glorious voice of opera star Renee Fleming, who's regarded as "the gold standard of soprano sound." With maestro Trevor Pinnock conducting, Fleming performs "Ave Maria," "Laudate Dominum" (from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Mass in C minor), "Adeste Fidelis," "Rejoice Greatly" (from George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah") and "O Holy Night."