The legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings Lamento di Federico, a famous aria from Act II of the opera L’arlesiana by Francesco Cilea. This performance was recorded during a concert at New York’s Central Park on June 28, 1993. New…
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Conducted by Carlos Kleiber, widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time, the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425, also known as the Linz Symphony. This performance…
Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Lang Lang plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. This performance was recorded at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna on June 28, 2008.
Accompanied by the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Turkish violinist Deniz Şensoy performs German Romantic era composer Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, one of the most popular violin concertos in the classical…
German pianist, teacher, and composer Wilhelm Kempff plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano sonatas No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, nicknamed the “Moonlight Sonata”, and No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90, nicknamed “Les…
A coda in music is a concluding section at the end of a piece or a movement that serves to bring the work to a close. The word coda comes from the Italian word for “tail,” and it acts as…
A cadenza in music is a virtuosic passage, typically appearing near the end of a concerto movement, where the soloist performs a dazzling, improvised, or pre-composed display of technical skill and musical expression. Originally improvised, cadenzas allow performers to showcase…
Tema con Variazioni (Italian for “Theme with Variations”) is a musical form in which a composer presents a main melody or theme and then creates a series of variations based on that theme. Each variation alters the theme in some…
Spanish classical guitarist Isabel Martínez plays Francisco Tárrega’s Capricho Árabe, an 1892 work for classical guitar. This performance was recorded at the Santa Clara Museum in Murcia, Spain.
Accompanied by the Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim plays Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel. This performance was recorded at the Philharmonie Berlin in 2014.
Accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas. This performance was recorded at the Tokyo NHK Hall on November 22,…
A long-lost waltz by the great Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin has been unearthed in the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan, sparking widespread enthusiasm in the classical music community. Robinson McClellan, while examining a collection of cultural artifacts,…