The great Italian tenor of the 20th century, Franco Corelli sings Granada, a song about the Spanish city of Granada written in 1932 by the Mexican composer Agustín Lara. This performance comes from a German television program broadcast in 1969,…
Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings Chitarra Romana (which means “Roman Guitar”), a 1934 Italian folk song composed by the Italian composer Eldo Di Lazzaro (21 February 1902 – 29 November 1968) with lyrics by the Italian lyricist Bruno Cherubini…
Accompanied by the Staatskapelle Dresden (known formally as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden), the Chinese pianist Lang Lang performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with…
One of the best pianists of the 20th century, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (5 January 1920 – 12 June 1995) plays Claude Debussy’s Children’s Corner, L. 113, a six-movement suite for solo piano. This performance was recorded in Torino (Turin) in…
Accompanied by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, Leonid Kogan performs Carmen Fantasie, a virtuoso showpiece for violin and orchestra that built upon various themes from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen. The piece…
Conducted by Alondra de la Parra, the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne) performs Maurice Ravel’s Boléro, a one-movement orchestral piece, originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960). This performance was recorded…
Accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Yuja Wang performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, a concertante work that was written for piano and orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, all in a single movement.…
The legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings Mamma, a popular song composed in 1940 by Cesare Andrea Bixio (1896-1978) with Italian lyrics by Bixio Cherubini (1899-1987) under the title “Mamma son tanto felice” (Mum, I am so happy). Flauto: Andrea…
Conducted by Giedrė Šlekytė, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs performs George Gershwin’s jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) An American in Paris. This performance was recorded at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on October 6, 2023.
Accompanied by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago (Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra), the legendary Spanish classical guitarist Narciso Yepes performs Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez on his 10-string guitar. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Also known as “Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto”, the piece…
Yuja Wang (piano), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), and Gautier Capuçon (cello) perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67. This performance was recorded during the Verbier Festival on July 29, 2022.
Conducted by Alain Altinoglu, hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (English: The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La Mer (i.e. The Sea), an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude…