Chopin: Winter Wind [Beatrice Rana]
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana plays Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor, a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1836. The piece is often referred to as the Winter Wind in English.
Category Romantic Era
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 [Janine Jansen and Friends]
Janine Jansen (violin), Timothy Ridout (Viola), Daniel Blendulf (Cello), and Denis Kozhukhin (piano) perform Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60. This performance was recorded during the Opening concert of the Internationaal Kamermuziek Festival Utrecht (International…
Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici [Kurzak, Popov] [From Verdi’s La Traviata]
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Accompanied by the MET orchestra and chorus, the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and the Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov sing “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” (English: “Let’s drink from the joyful cups”), a famous duet with a chorus from Giuseppe Verdi’s La…
Jussi Björling sings Flower Song from Bizet’s Carmen
One of the leading operatic tenors of the 20th century, Jussi Björling sings La fleur que tu m’avais jetée (Flower Song), a famous aria from Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera Carmen. A 1950 recording.
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 [Dumay, Collard]
French Violinist and conductor Augustin Dumay and the French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard perform Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105.
Philippe Hirschhorn plays Sauret Cadenza [Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1]
Latvian virtuoso violinist Philippe Hirschhorn (11 June 1946, Riga – 26 November 1996, Brussels) plays the French violinist and composer Émile Sauret’s (22 May 1852 – 12 February 1920) famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 [hr-Sinfonieorchester, Paavo Järvi]
Conducted by Paavo Järvi, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93. This performance was recorded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on May 19, 2022.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Lars Vogt]
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), the German pianist Lars Vogt (8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022) performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Karina Canellakis. This performance was recorded…
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 [International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht]
Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Clara-Jumi Kang (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Timothy Ridout (viola), Pablo Ferrández (cello), and Zvi Plesser (cello) perform Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Opus 36. This performance was the opening concert of the Internationaal…
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished” [Iván Fischer, Budapest Festival Orchestra]
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Conducted by Iván Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra performs Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759, commonly known as the “Unfinished Symphony”. The concert took place on February 28, 2014, at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall…
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Olga Scheps]
Accompanied by the Filharmonie Bohuslava Martinů (Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra), the German pianist Olga Scheps performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Robert Kružík. This performance was recorded in 2021.
Liszt: 12 Transcendental Études [Yunchan Lim]
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South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim performs Transcendental Études (French: Études d’exécution transcendante), S.139, a set of twelve compositions for piano by Franz Liszt. Recorded on June 10, 2022, during the semi-final of the 2022 Cliburn Competition, where Yunchan Lim took…