Accompanied by the Austrian chamber orchestra Camerata Salzburg, the Chinese classical pianist Yuja Wang performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Conductor: Lionel Bringuier. Composed in 1924, the work is for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical…
Latvian organist Liene Andreta Kalnciema and clarinetist Mārtiņš Circenis perform Gymnopédie No. 1, the first of the three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925). This performance was recorded live…
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, South Korean pianist Sunwook Kim, and the string quartet based in Oslo, Norway, Opus13 perform Ernest Chausson’s Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21. Recorded on December 30, 2022, during the final concert of…
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…
Conducted by Xian Zhang, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski’s orchestral tone poem Marche Slave in B-flat minor, Op. 31.
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…
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.…
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…
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.
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.
Conducted by François Leleux, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 28 in C major, K. 200 The exact composition date of the symphony is unknown, but it is one of Mozart’s Salzburg-era symphonies (1771-1777). It was probably…
California-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs a suite from the early baroque dance collection Terpsichore (1612) by the German composer Michael Praetorius, one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of…