Conducted by Dmitri Slobodeniouk, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, RFO) performs Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor (Op. 113, subtitled Babi Yar). Bass: Sergej Aleksashkin. On April 3, 2011 at the Grote Zaal…
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Leonard Bernstein conducted a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany on December 25, 1989. The performance took place in the Schauspielhaus in the eastern part of Berlin…
Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Mitsuko Uchida performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
Maria Callas sings “Vissi d’arte” (English: “I lived for art”), a soprano aria from Act 2 of the opera Tosca by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. Recorded at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), London, 1964.
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Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), American violinist Hilary Hahn performs the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms. Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 21, 2014.
The Kammerorchester Basel (Basel Chamber Orchestra) performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 at the Grote Zaal concert hall, Amsterdam on May 18, 2014.
Accompanied by the Münchener Bach-Orchester (Munich Bach Orchestra), the German conductor, choirmaster, organist, and harpsichordist Karl Richter (15 October 1926 – 15 February 1981) performs Handel organ concertos Op 7, HWV 306-311, referring to the six organ concertos for organ…
A live performance by the Georgian classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili at iTunes Festival, September 30, 2014. She played pieces from Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Händel, Ravel, and Bach.
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Conducted by the American conductor and pianist James Levine, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker) plays “Ride of the Valkyries”, (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren), the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, an opera…
A beautiful painting by Marguerite Gérard: “Painter when painting a portrait of a lute player”. Around the year 1790 (we are sure that it is before 1803).
The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana) is a massive oil painting (666 cm × 990 cm – 262 in × 390 in) by Paolo Veronese, the Italian late-Renaissance or Mannerist painter. He is most famous for…
Accompanied by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Russian classical pianist Denis Matsuev performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Recorded in May 2015 in Moscow.