Accompanied by the San Francisco-based Early Music ensemble Voices of Music, soprano Anna Dennis sings Fairest Isle from Henry Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur (z628), which premiered in 1691. This performance was recorded during the ensemble’s “The Great Poets” concert in…
Slovak operatic soprano Lucia Popp sings “Song to the Moon”, a renowned and exquisite aria from Antonín Dvořák’s 1901 opera “Rusalka”. This performance was recorded in 1980 during the re-opening of the Zurich Opera House.
Conducted by Bas Wiegers, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, an orchestral suite in three movements. Completed in 1940, it is Rachmaninoff’s last composition. Recorded on March 17, 2023, at the…
Hilary Hahn (18 years old at the time of performance) delivers a sublime rendition of the Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E-flat, BWV 1031, by Johann Sebastian Bach, accompanied by the great Lithuanian pianist Andrius Žlabys. This performance took…
Accompanied by the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra), French virtuoso violinist René-Charles “Zino” Francescatti performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61. Conductor: Jean Fournet. This performance was recorded on May 13, 1973.
Conducted by Lorenzo Viotti, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s symphonic poem The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18. Recorded during an AVROTROS Friday concert on October 20, 2023, at the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht.
Conducted by Fabio Biondi, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 11 in D Major, K. 84. Recorded at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on June 10, 2021. Biondi is also the concertmaster (plays the 1st violin).
An ensemble specializing in music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Concerto Köln performs Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV 156. This performance was recorded on March 25, 2022, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), Hilary Hahn performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. Conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Recorded on September 7, 2023, at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt.
Accompanied by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Warwick Adeney performs the popular Ralph Vaughn Williams masterpiece “The Lark Ascending”. Conductor: Peter Luff. Filmed in Yugambeh Country in Australia.
Accompanied by the Residentie Orkest (Residentie Orchestra), the Dutch orchestra based in The Hague, the Russian-born Israeli classical pianist Boris Giltburg performs Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major. Conductor: Anja Bihlmaier. Recorded during the Sunday Morning Concert on September…
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Franco-Spanish classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia plays the popular tango La Cumparsita by Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, the Uruguayan composer. Recorded at “La Cartoucherie”, Toulouse in 2018.