Accompanied by the English-Italian conductor and pianist Antonio Pappano on piano, Dutch violinist Janine Jansen performs Liebesleid (English: Love’s Sorrow), one of the three pieces of Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese Melodies in German) composed by the Austrian-born American violinist and…
Romanian-born Canadian classical pianist Ruxandra Oancea performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Three Sonatas Op. 31 (Piano sonatas No. 16, 17, and 18) on fortepiano.
German soprano Diana Damrau, Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, and the Met Chorus sing “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” (English: “Let’s drink from the joyful cups”), a famous duet with a chorus from Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, an 1853 opera in…
Gewandhaus Quartet and contrabassist Steffen Adelmann perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (also known as the Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525. The German title of the piece literally means “a little night music”. Composed…
Accompanied by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Conductor: Sergiu Celibidache. Recorded at the Gasteig (Philharmonie, München) in 1991.
Accompanied by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Italian-German-American Grammy-winning classical violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. Conductor: Gemma New. Recorded live in Dallas on April 23, 2021.
What is the most expensive violin in the world? And why the best violins are so expensive? First of all, Making a violin is a real art. The violin is an instrument that requires tremendous craftsmanship to produce the perfect…
Accompanied by the early music ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro, Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński sings Antonio Vivaldi’s “Vedrò con mio diletto” (English: I will see with joy). Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev.
Accompanied by the PreCollege Orchestra Zürich, classical pianist Yulia Miloslavskaya performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen. Recorded on October 1, 2017, in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Accompanied by the MÁV Symphony Orchestra (Budapest), Maxim Vengerov performs Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77. Conductor: Gábor Takács-Nagy. Recorded at Kodály Centre in Pécs, Hungary on October 21, 2021. All cadenzas are written by Vengerov himself.
Accompanied by the Camerata Salzburg, an Austrian chamber orchestra based in Salzburg, Austria, American classical violinist Hilary Hahn performs the popular Ralph Vaughn Williams masterpiece “The Lark Ascending”. Conductor: Louis Langrée. Recorded at the 2013 George Enescu Festival.
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Accompanied by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), American classical violinist Hilary Hahn performs Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen. This performance was recorded live in 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.