French classical guitarists Thibaut Garcia and Antoine Morinière play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (German: Goldberg-Variationen), BWV 988, a work for keyboard first published in 1741 and named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (14 March 1727 – 13 April 1756), the…
Conducted by Jos van Veldhoven, the Netherlands Bach Society performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in B minor, BWV 232”, a musical setting of the complete Ordinary of the Latin Mass. This performance was recorded for the Netherlands Bach Society’s project…
Accompanied by the early music ensemble led by Christina Pluhar, L’Arpeggiata, countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński sings the Italian Baroque composer Luigi Rossi’s (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) Dal cielo cader vid’io due stelle (English: From the sky I saw…
Conducted by Simon Rattle, the Simon Rattle plays Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” (French: L’oiseau de feu; Russian: Zhar-ptitsa), a ballet and orchestral concert work, written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company, with choreography by Michel…
Accompanied by the early music ensemble Le Concert Universel, French countertenor Gérard Lesne sings Cold Genius, a bass aria from King Arthur, or The British Worthy (Z. 628), a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a…
Accompanied by Jacob Heringman on lute, Les Canards Chantants, a vocal ensemble founded in England and now based in Philadelphia, performs Now, O Now I Needs Must Part by John Dowland. The piece is one of the most refined examples…
Conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists perform Georg Friedrich Händel’s psalm setting Dixit Dominus (cataloged as HWV 232). The work uses the Latin text of Psalm 110 (Vulgate 109), which begins with…
The great Italian tenor of the 20th century, Franco Corelli sings Granada, a song about the Spanish city of Granada written in 1932 by the Mexican composer Agustín Lara. This performance comes from a German television program broadcast in 1969,…
Accompanied by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Bremen German Chamber Philharmonic), the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concertos 1-5. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
Argentine lutenist Evangelina Mascardi and the Italian lutenist Frédéric Zigante play pieces from the English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer John Dowland and his contemporaries.
Legendary English classical guitarist Julian Bream plays Granada, originally a piano composition by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, the opening piece from his 1886 work Suite Española No. 1.
Accompanied by the Dresden Philharmonic, the German classical violinist and pianist Julia Fischer performs Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. Conductor: Michael Sanderling. This performance was recorded at the Kulturpalast Dresden in April 2017.