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,…
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.…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Conducted by Peter Tiboris, the Pan-European Philharmonia performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the “Pastoral Symphony”. This performance was recorded at the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio on March 23,…
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Liya Petrova (violin), and Aurélien Pascal (cello) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. This performance was recorded during the Festiv’Elmire 2020.
One of the greatest operatic tenors of the 20th century, Jussi Björling sings La Donna è Mobile, a famous canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto. This recording is from the Ed Sullivan Show…
Isabelle Faust (violin), Sol Gabetta (Cello), and Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) perform Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 929, one of the last compositions completed by the composer. This performance was recorded…