Accompanied by the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Georgian classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 by Edvard Grieg. Conductor: Tugan Sokhiev. Composed in 1868, it was the only concerto that the Norwegian…
De Antequera sale el Moro is a beautiful Spanish Renaissance song, composed by the Spanish composer Cristóbal de Morales (1500-1553) and arranged for vihuela by the Spanish vihuelist and composer Miguel de Fuenllana (1500-1579). Here are the two beautiful versions…
San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music plays the Italian Baroque era violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6, No. 4 on original period instruments. HD Video from the Voices of Music Lamentations of…
Accompanied by the Radio Kamer Filharmonie (RKF, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic), German cellist Marie-Elisabeth Hecker plays Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
Italian bass Ezio Pinza sings “You Belong To My Heart” with Lana Turner, the American film and television actress. From the 1951 romantic musical drama film “Mr. Imperium” (UK title: “You Belong To My Heart”).
Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa plays the 3rd movement (Allegretto) of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, usually referred to as “The Tempest”, and records it using a GoPro. An interesting video to…
German classical guitarist Anika Hutschreuther plays Gran Vals, also known as Grande Valse, by Francisco Tárrega, the Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the Romantic period. A phrase from the composition has been claimed to be “probably the world’s most…
Accompanied by the Academy of St. Martin in The Fields, one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century, Mstislav Rostropovich performs Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major for cello and orchestra, Hob. VIIb/2, Op. 101. Rostropovich…
One of the best flamenco guitarists ever, Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia plays Zequinha de Abreu’s “Tico Tico”, the best-known work of the Brazilian composer. Because of the lack of written tradition, Tico-Tico is played in various melodic versions…
Maria Radner was a German contralto and internationally renowned opera singer. She died yesterday, on 24 March 2015 along with her husband and colleague Oleg Bryzhak and their infant son, in the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, which occurred near Prads-Haute-Bléone,…
Ukrainian classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa plays Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, S.178, a sonata for solo piano. Recorded on March 1, 2015, in Leipzig.
Legendary Italian tenor Franco Corelli sings Nessun Dorma from Turandot, an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Corelli uses his great “spinto” voice…