Conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Maurice Ravel’s La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra). Recorded at the hr-Sendesaal music venue on November 5, 2011.
Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, popularly known as the “Emperor Concerto”. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1974.
Russian concert pianist and composer Daniil Trifonov and the Armenian-American concert pianist Sergei Babayan perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2, Op. 17, a composition for two pianos. The piece was composed in Italy in the first months of 1901. Recorded…
Conducted by William Christie, the French Baroque musical ensemble Les Arts Florissants performs Susanna (HWV 66), a sacred oratorio in three acts, by George Frideric Händel. Broadcast by Mezzo, 2009.
Moldovan-Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Turkish pianist Fazıl Say perform Franz Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A minor, D 385. The sonata was composed in 1816 when the Austrian composer was 19 years old.
Michala Petri (recorder) and Lars Hannibal (lute) play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Flute Sonata in C major for flute (recorder) and basso continuo (BWV 1033).
The Carmina Quartet performs Fandango from the Italian classical era composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini‘s Guitar Quintet G. 448 in D Major. Matthias Enderle, violin 1, Susanne Frank, violin 2, Wendy Champney, viola and Stephan Goerner, violoncello with Rolf Lislevand,…
Conducted by Joan Pagès Valls, the Orchestra of the Music High School Schloss Belvedere performs Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, a piece for string orchestra in three short movements. This performance was recorded at the…
Conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Czech early music orchestra and choir Collegium 1704 performs arias and concertos from the Baroque period composers George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. Soloists (guest musicians): Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano; Anna Fusek, flautino.
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Conducted by Jordi Savall, the early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI, and the orchestra with period instruments Le Concert des Nations perform Messe et motets pour la Vierge (mass and motets for the Virgin) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Recorded at the Le…
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (English: The Harmonious Garden) performs Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris Quartets (Quatuor Parisien) No. 12 (Chaconne).
San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048, on original instruments. Recorded at St. Stephen’s Church, Belvedere, California.