Conducted by Pietari Inkine, the Philharmonique de Radio France performs Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35, a symphonic suite composed in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights), a collection of Middle Eastern…
Dominik Wagner (double bass) and Aurelia Vişovan (piano) perform Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, also known as the “Arpeggione Sonata”. The sonata is originally written for arpeggione, a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and…
The great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. The piece was composed in 1844 and dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis. This performance was recorded in Hamburg on June 25,…
Conducted by Peter Tiboris, the Pan-European Philharmonia performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the “Pastoral Symphony”. This performance was recorded at the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio on March 23,…
The Bremer Barockorchester performs Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1. Soloists: Anninka Fohgrub, recorder; Felipe Egaña, traverso. This performance was recorded during Bremer Barockorchester’s “Music without Borders” concert at the Unser Lieben Frauen Church in Bremen…
Conducted by Karina Canellakis, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and Groot Omroepkoor perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s The Bells Op. 35 (Russian: Kolokola), a choral symphony written in 1913. Soloists: Olga Kulchynska, soprano; Pavel Petrov, tenor; Mikhail Petrenko, bass. This performance was recorded…
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Liya Petrova (violin), and Aurélien Pascal (cello) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. This performance was recorded during the Festiv’Elmire 2020.
One of the greatest operatic tenors of the 20th century, Jussi Björling sings La Donna è Mobile, a famous canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto. This recording is from the Ed Sullivan Show…
Conducted by Reinhard Goebel, the SWR Symphonieorchester (Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, better known as the Paris Symphony. This performance was recorded on May 21, 2022, in the…
Accompanied by the Orquestra Metropolitana, the Brazilian classical guitarist Paulo Martelli performs Guitar Concerto, W501 (piano reduction: W502), a piece for solo guitar and small orchestra written by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. Conductor:…
Isabelle Faust (violin), Sol Gabetta (Cello), and Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) perform Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 929, one of the last compositions completed by the composer. This performance was recorded…
Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), the great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. This performance was recorded at the Wiener Musikverein, Goldener Saal on September 18,…