American tenor and Hollywood star of Italian origin, Mario Lanza sings Celeste Aida, a romanza from the first act of the opera Aida, by Giuseppe Verdi. From The Great Caruso, the 1951 biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Mario Lanza as Enrico Caruso.
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” [Daniele and Maurizio Pollini]
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Accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (Galicia Symphony Orchestra), Italian classical pianist Maurizio Pollini plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, the “Emperor”. Conductor: Daniele Pollini, the son of the pianist himself. Recorded live at the Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña on November 14, 2014.
Tchaikovsky: Sérénade Mélancolique [Itzhak Perlman]
Accompanied by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 26. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov. Recorded during a Tchaikovsky Gala in Leningrad (today’s Saint Petersburg).
Wagner: Lohengrin overture [Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra]
Conducted by Claudio Abbado, one of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the 20th century, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra performs the overture of Lohengrin, WWV 75, a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by the German composer Richard Wagner. Recorded at the Lucerne Culture and Convention Center during the Lucerne Festival on …
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Triumphal March from Aïda [Verdi]
Perhaps the best-known triumphal march: from the second act of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1871 grand opera, Aïda (sometimes spelled Aida). This great opera was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo’s Khedivial Opera House (built on the orders of the Khedive Ismail to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal) on 24 December 1871; Giovanni Bottesini …
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto [Janine Jansen, Paavo Järvi]
Accompanied by the Orchestre de Paris, the Dutch violinist and violist Janine Jansen performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Recorded in January 2015.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Riccardo Muti]
Conducted by Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op 125. This performance was recorded on May 7, 2015.
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben [hr-Sinfonieorchester, Orozco-Estrada]
Conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Ein Heldenleben (English: A Hero’s Life), Op. 40, a tone poem by Richard Strauss, a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on December 11, 2015.
Daniel Barenboim plays Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 “Appassionata”
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (popularly known as the Appassionata, meaning “passionate” in Italian), one of the greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas of the composer. From the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas (No. 1-32) cycle recorded 1983-84 by Barenboim.
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 [Richter, Kagan, Gutman]
Natalia Gutman (Cello), Sviatoslav Richter (Piano), and Oleg Kagan (Violin) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. Recorded live in December 1986 at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR.
