Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin plays Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in D-flat major, Op. 64, No. 1, sometimes known as “Valse du petit chien” (French for “Waltz of the puppy”), and popularly known in English as the Minute Waltz.
Accompanied by the Pan-European Philharmonia, the Cypriot-born British pianist Marios Papadopoulos performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15. Conductor: Peter Tiboris. Recorded at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio on March 23,…
Accompanied by the early music ensemble Accademia Bizantina, French contralto Delphine Galou sings Antonio Vivaldi’s “Salve Regina, RV 618“, a sacred motet composed around 1720. This performance was recorded at the Rocchetta Mattei, a fortress located on the Northern Apennine…
One of the Netherlands Bach Society musicians, the Dutch flautist Marten Root performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Flute Partita in A minor, BWV 1013. Root performs on a traverso built by Fridtjof Aurin after Pierre Naust, ca. 1700. This performance was…
Conducted by Peter Tiboris, the Pan-European Philharmonia performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36. This performance was recorded at the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio on April 18, 2019.
Dutch musicians violinist Charlotte Spruit and pianist Yang Yang Cai perform Claude Debussy‘s Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano, L. 140.
American operatic soprano Dorothy Kirsten, the American tenor and Hollywood star of Italian origin Mario Lanza, and the American operatic mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom sing “O Terra Addio”, the final duet from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Aida,” which premiered in Cairo in…
Accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the American violinist Hilary Hahn performs Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (B.108). Conductor: Jader Bignamini. This performance was recorded on April 12, 2021.
Accompanied by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Icelandic clarinetist (she is also a poet and a writer) Arngunnur Árnadóttir performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622. Conductor: Cornelius Meister. This performance was recorded during Iceland Symphony’s…
Spanish classical guitarist Carles Trepat plays pieces from composers like Fernando Sor, Miguel García, Isaac Albéniz, Julián Arcas, and Johann Sebastian Bach. This concert was recorded at the Teatro Colón de A Coruña, Spain, on January 9, 2014. Trepat plays…
Conducted by Stanislav Kochanovsky, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest performs Edward Elgar‘s Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations. This performance was recorded on February 26, 2023.
Ukrainian classical pianist Anna Fedorova plays Frédéric Chopin’s Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2, the second work of his opus 64, and the companion to the more famous “Minute Waltz” (Op. 64, No. 1). An excerpt from the…