Accompanied by the Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (the Harmonious Garden), the great Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli sings “Ombra mai fu”, the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse (Xerxes) by George Frideric Händel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
Turkish pianist İlyun Bürkev plays Frédéric Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39. This performance was recorded at the Musikakademie in Liechtenstein in April 2024, when Bürkev was 16 years old.
The great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and the French violinist Renaud Capuçon perform the French romantic composer César Franck’s Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano. This performance was recorded on June 25, 2020.
Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (popularly known as the Appassionata, meaning “passionate” in Italian), one of the composer’s greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas. This performance was…
Conducted by Yizhar Karshon (harpsichord), the Israeli Baroque ensemble Barrocada plays Georg Philipp Telemann‘s Concerto for Recorder and Viola da Gamba in A minor, TWV 52:a1. Soloists: Shai Kribus, recorder; Amit Tiefenbrunn, viola da gamba.
Accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie (Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia), the Latvian virtuoso violinist Philippe Hirschhorn plays Antonio Vivaldi’s Winter (L’inverno) from The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni).
Accompanied by the French pianist François Daudet, the French cellist David Louwerse plays Sicilienne, Op. 78, a short work by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1893. It was originally an orchestral piece, written for a theatrical production that was abandoned. In 1898, Fauré arranged…
Martha Argerich (piano), Dora Schwarzberg (violin), and Jing Zhao (cello) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50.
Legendary Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti sings Chitarra Romana (which means “Roman Guitar”), a 1934 Italian folk song composed by the Italian composer Eldo Di Lazzaro (21 February 1902 – 29 November 1968) with lyrics by the Italian lyricist Bruno Cherubini…
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), the Japanese pianist Mao Fujita performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488). Conductor: Dalia Stasevska. This performance was recorded at the hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on April 19,…
Accompanied by the Hankyung Arte Philharmonic Orchestra, the Franco-Belgian cellist Camille Thomas performs Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191. Conductor: Joong Bae Jee. This performance was recorded at the Seoul Art Center in September 2023.
Grigory Sokolov plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Gigue from Partita No. 1, BWV 825. This performance was recorded during the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron 2015 by the French filmmaker, writer, and violinist Bruno Monsaingeon.