Accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Dutch classical violin concert and recording artist Janine Jansen performs Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 at Concertgebouw Amsterdam. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, usually referred to as “The Tempest” (or Der Sturm in German).
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Wiener Philharmoniker) plays Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
Conducted by Eugen Jochum, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Austrian romantic era composer Anton Bruckner’s (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) Symphony No. 9 in D minor. Recorded in December 1983.
Dutch violinist and violist Janine Jansen & Friends play Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet in D minor “Souvenir de Florence“, Op. 70, a string sextet scored for 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos. Recorded during the Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival…
Conducted by Markus Stenz, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Dutch abbreviation RFO) plays Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 52, commonly known as Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise). Recorded on 23 January 2015 in De Vrijdag…
Croatian-Serbian pianist Ivo Pogorelić (Pogorelich) plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No. 27 and 32. Recorded at Villa Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy, in 1987.
Accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Wiener Philharmoniker), the Polish classical pianist Krystian Zimerman plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra based in Seville, Spain, plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op 125, also known as the “Choral”.
American soprano Renée Fleming and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky concert in Moscow, 2006. It was the first concert of the “Hvorostovsky and Friends” concert series. State Chamber Orchestra of Russia conducted by Constantine Orbelian.
On July 30, 1991, Luciano Pavarotti has given a free concert in London’s Hyde Park to celebrate his 30 years in opera. A crowd of more than 100,000 stood in the rain to watch and listen to the great Luciano.
Conducted by Claus Peter Flor, the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest (Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra) plays Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov‘s Scheherazade, Op. 35, a symphonic suite composed in 1888. Recorded on Sunday, November 27th, 2011 at the main hall of De Doelen in Rotterdam, Netherlands.