Stephen Malinowski performs and also visualizes Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Stephen Anthony Malinowski is an American composer, pianist, educator, software engineer, and inventor. He was born on August 6, 1953, in Santa Monica,…
Three versions (Tavi Jinariu, John Williams, and Andrés Segovia) of Francisco Tárrega‘s Recuerdos de la Alhambra (English: Memories of the Alhambra).
Latvian pianist Olga Jegunova plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331. Recorded during a piano recital by Jegunova at the Bishopsgate Institute (London), October 2012.
The famous Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez sings La Flor de la Canela (The Cinnamon Flower), a vals criollo (or Peruvian Waltz ) song composed by Peruvian singer-songwriter Chabuca Granda.
Taya Tan is a beautiful Japanese song from Pink Martini’s 2007 album “Hey, Eugene!”. It is originally recorded in 1969 by Saori Yuki, a Japanese singer, and actress.
Conducted by Horst Sohm, the Copernicus Chamber Orchestra performs Tomaso Albinoni‘s Adagio in G Minor. Recorded in a live concert during the Festival de Musica de L’Escala, 2011.
Adio Kerida (Spanish: “Adios, querida”, English translation: “Goodbye, beloved”) is a Sephardic song. Here is a beautiful version is sung by Israeli singer-songwriter Yasmin Levy. Levy’s father, Isaac Levy is credited as one of the writers of the song’s lyrics.…
Durme Querido Hijico is a traditional Sephardic song. Here is a beautiful version which is sung by the French-born Sephardic Jewish singer Françoise Atlan.
Hora Staccato is a short, very fast violin piece in a Romanian hora style, composed by Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso Grigoraș Dinicu. It is Dinicu’s most famous and often-played virtuoso violin showpiece. Dinicu is widely regarded as…
Luis Mariano sings “Mexico”, a song from the Le Chanteur de Mexico (The Singer from Mexico), a French film directed by Richard Pottier starring Luis Mariano and Bourvil, released in 1957.
Famous Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo sings Malagueña, a song by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, written in 1928. Malagueña was originally the sixth movement of Lecuona’s Suite Andalucia.
Valentina Lisitsa plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s The Piano Sonata No. 14 “Quasi Una Fantasia” Opus 27 No. 2, also known as the “Moonlight Sonata”. Completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, it is one…