Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 [Maria João Pires]
Accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maria João Pires performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
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Beethoven: All Piano Concertos (1-5) [Murray Perahia]
Accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the American concert pianist and conductor Murray Perahia performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s all piano concertos (1-5). Conductor: Neville Marriner.
Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 & 2 [Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Nathalie Stutzmann]
Conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performs Georges Bizet’s L’Arlésienne (usually translated as ‘The Girl from Arles’). This performance was recorded at the Stockholm Concert Hall in October 2014. The work is an incidental music to Alphonse…
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring [Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden]
Conducted by the Dutch violinist and conductor Jaap van Zweden, the Dutch Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) performs Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (French: Le Sacre du Printemps), a ballet and orchestral concert work, which was written for…
Rachmaninoff: The Bells (Kolokola) [Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the Groot Omroepkoor]
Conducted by the American conductor James Gaffigan, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic) and the Groot Omroepkoor (Dutch Radio Choir) perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s The Bells (Russian: Kolokola), Op. 35, a choral symphony written in 1913. The words are from…
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 [Dejan Lazić]
Accompanied by the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (The orchestra was previously known in Dutch as Orkest van het Oosten (literal translation “Orchestra of the East”), Croatian classical pianist Dejan Lazić performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major…
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 27 [Daniel Barenboim]
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90. Recorded live in Berlin in 2005.
Mozart: Symphony No. 21 [Cappella Accademica]
Conducted by Norihiko Yoshikawa, the Cappella Accademica plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 21 in A major, K. 134. This performance was recorded on November 25, 2016, at the Hamakita Culture Center in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. The symphony was composed…
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Daniil Trifonov]
Accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Russian concert pianist, and composer Daniil Trifonov performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30. Conductor: Myung-whun Chung. Recorded on June 19, 2015, at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Four versions of Gerard Drozd’s Adagio Op. 44 [Homage to Bach]
Four versions of the Polish guitarist and composer Gerard Drozd’s beautiful piece: Adagio op. 44 (Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach). The first version (solo guitar): Irina Kulikova. This performance was recorded live at the International GLIWICE GUITAR FESTIVAL on 13…
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 ‘The Tempest’ [Maria João Pires]
Maria João Pires, one of the finest pianists of her generation, performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, usually referred to as “The Tempest”. Recorded on November 21, 2013, at Salle Pleyel…
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic] (1976)
Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Composed in 1924, the work is for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music…