Conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, the Göteborgs Symfoniker (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra) plays Johannes Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor, Allegro molto. This performance was recorded in Gothenburg in November 2010 in Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, as an encore after…
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), French oboist, conductor, and professor François Leleux performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314. Conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada. This performance was recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on October 14,…
Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Ensemble and Choir of Zürich perform Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (SV 318), sometimes called La favola d’Orfeo, a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in music, or opera, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. Filmed in 1978. Director:…
Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major. Soprano: Edith Mathis.
Conducted by Christian Thielemann, the Staatskapelle Dresden and Dresden State Opera Chorus perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123. Soloists: Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano; Michael Schade, tenor; Franz-Josef Selig, bass. This performance was recorded…
The great Ukraine-born Soviet violinist of the 20th century, Leonid Kogan, and his daughter, pianist Nina Kogan perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 Opus 47, commonly known as the “Kreutzer Sonata”.
Conducted by Ton Koopman, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg (Mozarteumorchester Salzburg) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 23 in D major, K. 181 This performance was recorded in 2002.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), Michel Camilo, the Grammy-award winning pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Conductor: Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Composed in 1924, the work is for solo piano and…
American organist Rodney Gehrke performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. The piece is Bach’s signature work for organ solo. In this ultra-HD video, it is performed on a Flentrop organ (see notes 1 at…
San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs the first movement, “allegro” of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, a composition for a chamber ensemble. Recorded during the Valley…
Ukrainian classical pianist Anna Fedorova plays Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836. The piece is often referred to as the Winter Wind in English.
Conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, commonly known as the “Unfinished Symphony” (German: Unvollendete). Recorded during the Rheingau Music Festival at the Eberbach Abbey (Kloster Eberbach)…