Mario Lanza sings Ave Maria [Schubert]
The great American tenor of Italian origin, Mario Lanza sings Ave Maria by Franz Schubert. The video is from the 1956 movie “Serenade”.
Category Romantic Era
Aida Garifullina and Juan Diego Flórez: “E il sol dell’anima” [Rigoletto, Verdi]
Russian operatic soprano Aida Garifullina and Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez sing “E il sol dell’anima” (English: “Love is the sunshine of the soul”) from Rigoletto, an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker [Mariinsky Theatre, Gergiev]
The famous ballet in two acts, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”, from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, December 2012. Valery Gergiev: conductor, Vasily Vainonen: choreography, Benjamin Tyrrell: stage and costumes. This successful production is recorded exclusively for EuroArts Music…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Leonard Bernstein, The Berlin Celebration Concert in 1989]
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Leonard Bernstein conducted a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany on December 25, 1989. The performance took place in the Schauspielhaus in the eastern part of Berlin…
Maria Callas sings Vissi d’arte [From Puccini’s Tosca]
Maria Callas sings “Vissi d’arte” (English: “I lived for art”), a soprano aria from Act 2 of the opera Tosca by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. Recorded at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), London, 1964.
Brahms: Violin Concerto [Hilary Hahn]
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Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), American violinist Hilary Hahn performs the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms. Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 21, 2014.
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings [Kammerorchester Basel]
The Kammerorchester Basel (Basel Chamber Orchestra) performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 at the Grote Zaal concert hall, Amsterdam on May 18, 2014.
Khatia Buniatishvili at iTunes Festival [2014]
A live performance by the Georgian classical pianist Khatia Buniatishvili at iTunes Festival, September 30, 2014. She played pieces from Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Händel, Ravel, and Bach.
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries [Berlin Philharmonic, Levine]
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Conducted by the American conductor and pianist James Levine, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker) plays “Ride of the Valkyries”, (German: Walkürenritt or Ritt der Walküren), the beginning of act 3 of Die Walküre, (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, an opera…
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Denis Matsuev]
Accompanied by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Russian classical pianist Denis Matsuev performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Recorded in May 2015 in Moscow.
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto [David Oistrakh, 1968]
Accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, renowned Soviet classical violinist David Oistrakh performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Written in 1878, the piece is one of the best-known violin concertos and is…
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 [Kopatchinskaja, Say]
Moldovan-Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Turkish pianist Fazıl Say perform Johannes Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108. Composed between 1878 and 1888, it is the last violin sonata of the German composer.