The legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings La Girometta, a charming Italian art song composed by Gabriele Sibella, during a concert at New York’s Central Park on June 28, 1993. New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leone Magiera. More than…
Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, KV. 453. Bernstein also conducts the orchestra. This performance was recorded on October 11, 1981, at the Wiener Musikverein.
Hong-Kong born pianist Tiffany Poon plays Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22. This performance was recorded during the 2023 Dresden Music Festival on June 17, 2023, at the Palais im Großen Garten (The Grand Garden…
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…