Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 [Maria João Pires]
Accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maria João Pires performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
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Beethoven: All Piano Concertos (1-5) [Murray Perahia]
Accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the American concert pianist and conductor Murray Perahia performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s all piano concertos (1-5). Conductor: Neville Marriner.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 [Dejan Lazić]
Accompanied by the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (The orchestra was previously known in Dutch as Orkest van het Oosten (literal translation “Orchestra of the East”), Croatian classical pianist Dejan Lazić performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major…
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 27 [Daniel Barenboim]
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90. Recorded live in Berlin in 2005.
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Daniil Trifonov]
Accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Russian concert pianist, and composer Daniil Trifonov performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30. Conductor: Myung-whun Chung. Recorded on June 19, 2015, at the Philharmonie de Paris.
Four versions of Gerard Drozd’s Adagio Op. 44 [Homage to Bach]
Four versions of the Polish guitarist and composer Gerard Drozd’s beautiful piece: Adagio op. 44 (Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach). The first version (solo guitar): Irina Kulikova. This performance was recorded live at the International GLIWICE GUITAR FESTIVAL on 13…
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 ‘The Tempest’ [Maria João Pires]
Maria João Pires, one of the finest pianists of her generation, performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, usually referred to as “The Tempest”. Recorded on November 21, 2013, at Salle Pleyel…
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue [Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic] (1976)
Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Composed in 1924, the work is for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music…
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Mitsuko Uchida]
Accompanied by the Saito Kinen Orchestra, Japanese naturalised-British classical pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Yuja Wang]
Accompanied by the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome; Chinese classical pianist Yuja Wang performs Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101. Conductor: Antonio Pappano.
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Yefim Bronfman]
Accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI), the Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Sergei Prokofiev‘s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky, flute: Giampaolo Pretto. This performance was…
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 2 [Daniel Barenboim]
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2. Recorded live in Berlin in 2005.