The Masterclass Media Foundation

Academic Institutions

Academic and Library Sales

While DVDs of masterclasses are available singly for individuals to buy at a subsidised price, the MMF funds its productions by selling complete sets of DVDs to music colleges, conservatoires and other academic institutions.

Each year a minimum of 30 hours of masterclasses will be released. Purchase of a complete set will entitle an institution to:

  • Loan DVDs to students and staff through a college library
  • Project DVDs in classrooms
  • Stream the masterclasses on a secure college intranet for the benefit of students


Special Introductory Price

£500 (approx US$900 or €625) * plus shipping

For this introductory price, each library will receive one copy of each of the first 21 DVDs, containing 30 hours of masterclasses.

This important and unique resource for students and teachers will build into a major collection of masterclasses that will last for many years.

"As a teaching resource these DVDs are both inspiring and effective. Since there is nothing else available of a comparable nature, it is my opinion and that of my teaching colleagues, that these DVDs will be of considerable value both to students and teachers for many years to come. I believe that all music colleges and conservatoires would be enriched by the acquisition of the Foundation's DVDs for their libraries."
– Sir Curtis Price, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

A sampler DVD containing extracts from seven masterclasses is available to colleges free of charge. Please email: subscriptions@masterclassfoundation.org to order this DVD or to get further information.

*VAT at 17.5% will be added to UK/EU sales

The first year’s module, of 30 hours of masterclasses available from summer 2008 consists of the following 21 DVDs:

KEYBOARD – Piano Masterclasses

András Schiff
  • MMF 001 Bach – Partita No 2
  • MMF 002 Schubert - Moments Musicaux Nos 1, 3 and 4
  • MMF 003 Beethoven Late Piano Sonatas (Lecture Recital)
    • Piano Sonata No 30 in E Major, Op 109
    • Piano Sonata No 31 in A Flat Major, Op 110
    • Piano Sonata No 32 in C Minor, Op 111

STRINGS – Violin Masterclasses

Maxim Vengerov
  • MMF 004 Bach - Adagio and Fugue from Sonata No 1 for Solo Violin
  • MMF 005 Mozart - Violin Concerto No 3 in G Major, K216
  • MMF 006 Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor Op 23
  • MMF 007 Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
  • MMF 013 Ravel – Tzigane
  • MMF 012 Sibelius - Violin Concerto in D minor, opus 47
  • MMF 019 Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor, Opus 77
Zakhar Bron
  • MMF 018 Bach – Chaconne from Partita No 2 for Solo Violin

STRINGS – Viola Masterclasses

Yuri Bashmet
  • MMF 021 Shostakovich - Sonata for Viola and Piano Op 147

STRINGS – Cello Masterclasses

Steven Isserlis
  • MMF 008 Rachmaninov - Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor Op 19
  • MMF 017 Schumann – Fantasiestücke
Frans Helmerson
  • MMF 009 Dvorak - Cello Concerto in B Minor

TRUMPET Masterclasses

Håkan Hardenberger
  • MMF 016 Twentieth Century Trumpet Works
    • Georges Enesco - Légende
    • Hans Werner Henze - Sonatina for Trumpet Solo
    • Bohuslav Martinu - Sonatine for Trumpet and Piano

PERCUSSION Masterclasses

Evelyn Glennie
  • MMF 015 Percussion Works
    • Minoru Miki - Marimba Spiritual
    • Anders Koppel - Toccata for Marimba and Vibraphone

CHAMBER MUSIC Masterclasses

Gábor Takács-Nagy
  • MMF 014 Brahms – Piano Quartet No 3 in C Minor

SINGING Masterclasses

Thomas Quasthoff
  • MMF 010 Songs and Arias
    • Mozart - “Laudamus Te” from Mass in C Minor
    • Schubert - “Nacht und Träume” D 827
    • Schubert - "Ich schleiche bang und still herum" D787 no. 2
    • Wagner - “Dich, Teure Halle” from Tannhauser
    • Mozart - “Deh Viene, Non Tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
Joan Rodgers
  • MMF 020 Songs and Arias
    • Mozart - “Ach ich fühl’s” (Pamina) from The Magic Flute
    • “Vedro mentr’io sospiro” (Count Almaviva) from The Marriage of Figaro
    • Gounod - The Jewel Song (Marguerite) from Faust
    • Tchaikovsky - Tatiana’s Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin
    • Olga’s Aria from Eugene Onegin

CONDUCTING Masterclasses

Bernard Haitink
  • MMF 011 Brahms - Symphony No 3 in F Major

To order please email subscriptions@masterclassfoundation.org

NOTE: Please note that this list of releases is correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to some alterations or substitutions. Masterclass DVDs range in duration from about 50 minutes to over 3 hours. In some classes only part of the work is covered.