Grandi: Venetian Christmas Vespers [Voices of Music]
The award-winning early music ensemble Voice of Music performs Alessandro Grandi’s Venetian Christmas Vespers and Confitebor tibi Domine. Directors: Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler.
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Corelli: Christmas Concerto [Freiburger Barockorchester]
German baroque orchestra Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) plays Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, also commonly known as the Christmas Concerto.
Christmas in Vienna (2008) [Full]
Christmas in Vienna at the Wiener Konzerthaus (2008) with international soloists such as Latvian operatic lyric mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez. Wiener Symphoiker conducted by Karel Mark Chichon.
The Three Tenors Christmas Concert in Vienna [1999, full]
The Three Tenors Christmas Concert, recorded live at the opulent Konzerthaus in Vienna, on December 23, 1999, the three most popular male vocalists of the 1990s and early 2000s opera: Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras. Wiener Symphoniker conducted…
Jegunova plays Scherzo No. 2 (Chopin)
Latvian concert pianist Olga Jegunova plays Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31. Recorded during a piano recital by Olga Jegunova at Bishopsgate Institute (London) in October 2012.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” [Wiener Philharmoniker, Thielemann]
Conducted by Christian Thielemann, the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the “Pastoral Symphony” (German Pastoral-Sinfonie).
Pavarotti sings Nessun Dorma [1990 recording]
Luciano Pavarotti sings Nessun Dorma, a very famous tenor aria from Giacomo Puccini’s (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) opera Turandot. Milan, at the 1990 FIFA world cup presentation concert.
Maria Callas sings Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen
Maria Callas, “La Diva” sings Habanera from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen. Recorded at Covent Garden in 1962.
Sándor Lakatos plays Csárdás (Monti)
Hungarian violin virtuoso Sándor Lakatos and his Gipsy Band play Csárdás, a composition by Italian composer Vittorio Monti (6 January 1868 – 20 June 1922). Czárdás is actually a traditional Hungarian folk dance, the name derived from csárda (old Hungarian…
Leonid Kogan plays Paganini’s Nel cor più non mi sento
A preeminent Soviet violinist of the 20th century, Leonid Kogan plays Niccolò Paganini’s “Nel cor più non mi sento“. It is actually a soprano aria from act 2 in Giovanni Paisiello’s 1788 opera L’amor contrastato, ossia La molinara, usually known…
Bach: Christmas Oratorio [Harnoncourt] [Complete]
Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Austrian baroque music ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien and the Soloists of the Tölzer Knabenchor perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio) BWV 248. This recording dates from 1982 at the Herderkirche in Weimar, Germany.
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 [Sofia Vasheruk]
Accompanied by the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO; English, North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra), Russian concert pianist Sofia Vasheruk plays Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Conductor: Stefan Asbury. Recorded during the Young Pianist Festival in…