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.
Accompanied by the Sinfonia Rotterdam, Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21. Conductor: Conrad van Alphen. This performance was recorded at the Kloosterkerk in The Hague, Netherlands, on October 18, 2024.
Accompanied by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra), the German violinist Veronika Eberle performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. Conductor: Simon Rattle. This performance was recorded in 2024.
Accompanied by Sam Brown on lute, soprano Angela Hicks sings Flow, My Tears (Lachrimae), a lute song (specifically, an “ayre”) by the Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626).
When we hear the word recorder today, most of us think of a simple wooden or plastic flute – or of recording audio. But the name of this wind instrument has nothing to do with capturing sound in the modern…