Conducted by Günter Wand, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485. This performance was recorded during the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in Kiel, Germany, in 1997.
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Schumann: Piano Quintet [Martha Argerich and Friends]
Martha Argerich (piano), Freddy Varela Montero (violin), Tatiana Glava (violin), Fernando Rojas Huespe (viola), and Stanimir Todorov (cello) perform Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44. This performance was recorded during the first concert of the Festival Argerich at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 15, 2023.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 [İlyun Bürkev, Klassische Philharmonie Bonn Orchestra]
Accompanied by the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn Orchestra, the Turkish pianist İlyun Bürkev performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Alexander Hülshoff. This performance was recorded at the Munich Herkules Hall on October 25, 2023, when Bürkev was only 15 years old!
Chopin: Waltz in A minor [Greg Niemczuk]
Polish classical pianist Greg Niemczuk plays Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz No. 19 in A minor, B. 150, a waltz for solo piano. The piece was written sometime between 1847 and 1849 but was not published until 1860, after the composer’s death. This performance was recorded in Ibsenhuset, Skien, Norway, on May 14, 2023.
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 [Lorin Maazel]
Conducted by Lorin Maazel (1930-2014), the Hiroyuki Iwaki Memorial Orchestra performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. This performance was recorded on December 31, 2010, in Tokyo, Japan.
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings [NDR Elbphilharmonie, Paavo Järvi]
Conducted by Paavo Järvi, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48. This performance was recorded on May 7, 2021, during the International Music Festival Hamburg, at the Elbphilharmonie.
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 2 [Tiffany Poon]
Hong-Kong born pianist Tiffany Poon plays Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22. This performance was recorded during the 2023 Dresden Music Festival on June 17, 2023, at the Palais im Großen Garten (The Grand Garden Palace), Dresden, Germany.
Rimski-Korsakov: Schéhérazade [Philharmonique de Radio France, Pietari Inkinen]
Conducted by Pietari Inkine, the Philharmonique de Radio France performs Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35, a symphonic suite composed in 1888 and based on One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights), a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata [Dominik Wagner, Aurelia Vişovan]
Dominik Wagner (double bass) and Aurelia Vişovan (piano) perform Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, also known as the “Arpeggione Sonata”. The sonata is originally written for arpeggione, a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass …
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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 [Martha Argerich]
The great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich plays Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58. The piece was composed in 1844 and dedicated to Countess Emilie de Perthuis. This performance was recorded in Hamburg on June 25, 2020.