Deutsche Grammophon has launched its handsome new classical platform STAGE+ in a bid to tap into the growing audience for quality online classical music audio and video. The site offers savvily curated content and a user-friendly interface that allows subscribers to search an impressive catalogue of artists, works and composers.

STAGE+ is the latest iteration of DG Stage, the Yellow Label’s pioneering video music service launched a few months into the global pandemic. Not only does the new service provide access to the latest DG and Decca releases on disc and video, but it also offers a host of concert and operatic performances from major artists past and present drawn from the companies’ substantial archives. In addition, and perhaps most excitingly, it will present regular livestreamed events from around the globe.

The new service, presented informally at an exclusive London event with guest artists Lang Lang and Emily D’Angelo, to which Limelight was invited, is the brainchild of Dr Clemens Trautmann, Deutsche Grammophon’s President. “In 2023, DG will be celebrating its 125th anniversary, and STAGE+ is the latest example of the creative and...