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Vivaldi: Four Seasons [Complete, Voices of Music]

Voices of Music performs Vivaldi Four Seasons

Award-winning San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni), a group of four violin concertos, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Soloists (violin): Alana Youssefian (spring), Miller Freivogel (summer and winter), and Carla Moore (autumn). The ensemble performs on original period instruments.

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave [Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra]

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky Marche Slave

Conducted by Xian Zhang, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski’s orchestral tone poem Marche slave in B-flat minor, Op. 31.

Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor [Liene Andreta Kalnciema]

Liene Andreta Kalnciema plays Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Latvian organist Liene Andreta Kalnciema performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565. In this video, Kalnciema is playing the great Walcker organ (1883) at Riga Cathedral in Latvia. The performance was recorded live on July 7, 2019.

Dvořák: Cello Concerto [Jacqueline du Pré, Barenboim, 1968]

Jacqueline du Pré performs Dvořák Cello Concerto

Accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra, regarded as one of the most talented cellists of the second half of the twentieth century, Jacqueline du Pré performs Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. A recently re-discovered recording of a concert held in tribute to the people of Czechoslovakia days after the Soviet Union invaded. Filmed live at the Royal Albert Hall in September 1968.

Lea Desandre sings “Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect me” from Händel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth

Accompanied by the French lutenist Thomas Dunford and his Jupiter ensemble, French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings “Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect me” from Händel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71, the final name of an oratorio by George Frideric Handel produced in three different versions across fifty years of the composer’s career.

Händel: Water Music [Akademie für alte Musik Berlin]

Akademie für alte Musik Berlin performs Händel's Water Music

German chamber orchestra Akademie für alte Musik Berlin performs George Frideric Händel’s Water Music, a collection of orchestral movements. Violin & conducting: Georg Kallweit. Recorded on January 10, 2016, during the Sunday Morning Concert at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 [Netherlands Bach Society]

Netherlands Bach Society performs Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

The oldest ensemble for Baroque music in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Bach Society performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067. Shunske Sato, violin and direction; Marten Root, transverse flute.

Mozart: Symphony No. 28 [Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Francois Leleux]

Conducted by Francois Leleux, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra performs Mozart Symphony No. 28

Conducted by Francois Leleux, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200/189k. The exact composition date of the symphony is unknown, but it is one of Mozart’s Salzburg-era symphonies (1771-1777). It was probably composed in 1773 or 1774.

Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore [Voices of Music]

California-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs a suite from the early baroque dance collection Terpsichore (1612) by Michael Praetorius. Live, 4K UHD video recorded in December 2016.

Mozart: Symphony No. 13 [hr-Sinfonieorchester, Fabio Biondi]

hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 13 in F major, K. 112. Concertmaster and conductor: Fabio Biondi. Recorded on June 10, 2021, at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt.