Carnegie Hall has launched its own online subscription channel. Called Carnegie Hall+, it’s available in 60 countries via the Apple TV app, and costs £6.99/$7.99 per month (new users are offered a seven-day free trial). While curated by the famed New York venue, the on-demand service will feature performances from halls, opera houses and festivals worldwide, and include both new and archive concerts, operas, ballets, artist portraits and music documentaries.

A partnership with Unitel, the channel will draw on the classical music film producer’s vast catalogue stretching back more than half a century. All programmes will be offered in high-definition, and newer programmes will be available in 4K Ultra HD and Dolby Atmos.

‘Carnegie Hall+ opens a window to viewers to some of the world’s most thrilling artists and arts destinations, creating an at-home journey of musical discovery,’ said Carnegie Hall’s Executive and Artistic Director Clive Gillinson. ‘While we believe that you can’t replace the power of live performances, this launch is especially important at a time when everyone has come to expect access to the best of every kind of programming at the push of a button.’ He also added that over time the channel will embrace other genres of music too.

Just a selection of the substantial launch offerings give a flavour of the breadth of coverage: pianist Evgeny Kissin and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel from the 2020 Salzburg Festival; pianists Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim in a duet concert, also filmed at Salzburg, in 2021; ‘Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century’, a recital of lieder and arias from soprano Renée Fleming filmed in Vienna’s Musikverein in 2012; Schubert’s Winterreise with Matthias Goerne and Markus Hinterhäuser from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2014; Patrice Chéreau’s Ring Cycle conducted by Pierre Boulez from the Bayreuth Festival in 1979/1980; Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1972; and Verdi’s Requiem from 1967 with Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, at La Scala in Milan.

Find out more at carnegiehallplus.com