Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo sings Bésame Mucho (English: Kiss me a lot), a song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez (August 21, 1916 – January 22, 2005). Recorded at the Open air Gala – Bowling Green, Wiesbaden in…
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonious Garden) plays Tarquinio Merula’s (24 November 1595 – 10 December 1665) Ciaccona, Op.12 No.20. A beautiful video from “Il Giardino Armonico: Music of the Italian Baroque (2000)”, Paul Fenkart. Enjoy!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, K. 43. Mozart composed this symphony in 1767 when he was 11 years old. It is his first symphony in the key of F.
Accompanied by the Croatian Baroque Ensemble, the British violinist Catherine Mackintosh performs “Air” (Air on the G-string) and “Gavotte” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068. Recorded at the Croatian Music Institute, Zagreb, on…
Accompanied by the Faroe Islands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Danish oboist Henrik Chaim Goldschmidt performs the Italian composer Ennio Morricone’s “Gabriel’s Oboe”, the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission directed by Roland Joffé. Conductor: Bernhardhur Wilkinson. Recorded on January…
The great American tenor and Hollywood film star of Italian origin, Mario Lanza and Luisa Di Meo (the little girl in the clip) sing “Arrivederci Roma” (Goodbye Rome), from the 1958 Italian-American musical film “Seven Hills of Rome”. It was Lanza’s…
Spanish tenor José Carreras sings “Una furtiva lagrima” (A furtive tear), a romanza from act 2, scene 8 of the Italian opera L’elisir d’amore by Gaetano Donizetti. The video is taken from “Estrellas de la Opera” (The Stars of the Opera),…
Accompanied by the Orchestra of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar, prizewinning French classical pianist Hélène Tysman plays Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major”. Conductor: Prof. Nicolás Pasquet. The piece was commissioned by the…
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Accompanied by the Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (English: the Harmonious Garden), the Italian violinist Enrico Onofri performs Antonio Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in D major, RV 208 “Grosso Mogul”. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini. It is the eleventh of Twelve…
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo sings the famous tenor aria (romanza) “Amor, vida de mi vida” from the zarzuela Maravilla. Salzburg, 2007.
Marissa Carroll (mandolin) and Joel Woods (guitar) play Niccolò Paganini’s Sonata Concertata, a three-movement piece in A major, op. 61 for guitar and violin. Here, the performers use mandolin instead of violin. Performed at the Ian Hanger Recital Hall at…
World-renowned Spanish classical and flamenco guitarist Pepe Romero plays Asturias (Leyenda), a musical work written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz; and Fantasia, by Celedonio Romero (2 March 1913 – 8 May 1996, the father of Pepe Romero), the guitarist,…