Accompanied by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Austrian pianist, poet, and author Alfred Brendel performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Claudio Abbado, one of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the…
Conducted by the American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein, the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 Mozart composed this symphony in October 1773, when he…
Conducted by Marek Janowski, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97, also known as the Rhenish. Composed from 2 November to 9 December 1850, it is the last symphony composed…
Accompanied by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Kamer Filharmonie), Brazilian classical pianist Nelson Freire performs Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. Completed in the year 1845, is the only piano concerto written by the German…
Conducted by Edward Gardner, 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 December 18, 2011, at the…
Ukrainian classical pianist Anna Fedorova performs Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit: Trois poèmes pour piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand, a suite of pieces for solo piano composed in 1908. Recorded at Annecy Classic Festival in August 2014.
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Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Collegium Vocale Gent perform Robert Schumann’s Paradise and the Peri, (German Das Paradies und die Peri), Op. 50, an oratorio for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. Recorded at the Alte…
San Fransisco based early music ensemble Voices of Music perform Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Soloists: Dominique Labelle (soprano) and Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano). This beautiful work is composed in 1736, in the final weeks of Pergolesi’s short life (4 January…
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), the German-Japanese classical pianist Alice Sara Ott performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23. Conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Accompanied by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Norvegian cellist Truls Mørk performs Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85. Conductor: Edward Gardner. Recording: the Sunday Morning Concert on January 22, 2017, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. An HD video…
Austrian pianist and composer Friedrich Gulda performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Gulda also conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), French classical pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, popularly known as the “Emperor Concerto”. Conductor: David Afkham. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt…