The Bremer Barockorchester performs Georg Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Recorder and Flute, TWV 52:e1. Soloists: Anninka Fohgrub, recorder; Felipe Egaña, traverso. This performance was recorded during Bremer Barockorchester’s “Music without Borders” concert at the Unser Lieben Frauen Church in Bremen on November 21, 2015.
Continue reading “Telemann: Concerto for Traverso and Recorder in E minor, TWV 52:e1 [Bremer Barockorchester]”Rachmaninoff: The Bells [Kolokola] [Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Groot Omroepkoor, Karina Canellakis]
Conducted by Karina Canellakis, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and Groot Omroepkoor perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s The Bells Op. 35 (Rusian: Kolokola), a choral symphony written in 1913. Soloists: Olga Kulchynska, soprano; Pavel Petrov, tenor; Mikhail Petrenko, bass. This performance was recorded during an AVROTROS Friday Concert on September 15, 2023, at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Continue reading “Rachmaninoff: The Bells [Kolokola] [Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Groot Omroepkoor, Karina Canellakis]”Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio [Kantorow, Petrova, Pascal]
Alexandre Kantorow (piano), Liya Petrova (violin), and Aurélien Pascal (cello) perform Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50. This performance was recorded during the Festiv’Elmire 2020.
Continue reading “Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio [Kantorow, Petrova, Pascal]”Jussi Björling sings La Donna è Mobile
One of the greatest operatic tenors of the 20th century, Jussi Björling sings La Donna è Mobile, a famous canzone from the beginning of act 3 of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1851 opera Rigoletto. This recording is from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
Continue reading “Jussi Björling sings La Donna è Mobile”Mozart: Symphony No. 31 “Paris” [SWR Symphonieorchester, Reinhard Goebel]
Conducted by Reinhard Goebel, the SWR Symphonieorchester (Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, better known as the Paris Symphony. This performance was recorded on May 21, 2022, in the Rococo Hall of Schwetzingen Castle.
Continue reading “Mozart: Symphony No. 31 “Paris” [SWR Symphonieorchester, Reinhard Goebel]”Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto [Paulo Martelli]
Accompanied by the Orquestra Metropolitana, the Brazilian classical guitarist Paulo Martelli performs Guitar Concerto, W501 (piano reduction: W502), a piece for solo guitar and small orchestra written by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. Conductor: Rodrigo Vitta. This performance was recorded on November 13, 2013, at the Serviço Social do Comércio – SESC Bom Retiro in São Paulo, Brazil. Martelli plays a guitar made by Sergio Abreu in 2004.
Continue reading “Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto [Paulo Martelli]”Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 [Bezuidenhout, Faust, Eberle]
Isabelle Faust (violin), Sol Gabetta (Cello), and Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) perform Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 929, one of the last compositions completed by the composer. This performance was recorded at the Solsberg Festival 2021.
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Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), the great Argentine pianist Martha Argerich performs Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. Conductor: Zubin Mehta. This performance was recorded at the Wiener Musikverein, Goldener Saal on September 18, 2022.
Continue reading “Schumann: Piano Concerto [Martha Argerich, Zubin Mehta]”Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata [Božo Paradžik, Mira Wollmann]
Božo Paradžik (double bass) and Mira Wollmann (piano) perform Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, also known as the “Arpeggione Sonata”. The sonata is originally written for arpeggione, a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. Here, Paradžik performs it on double bass. This version for the double bass remains nearly throughout the piece one octave lower than the arpeggione’s part in the urtext, otherwise, it is performed according to the urtext. This performance was recorded at the Jesuit church of Sion, Switzerland, on July 15, 2013.
Continue reading “Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata [Božo Paradžik, Mira Wollmann]”C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22 [Denis Bouriakov, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra]
Accompanied by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Russian flautist Denis Bouriakov performs Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Flute Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22. This performance was recorded live at the Budapest Music Center, Hungary in September 2021.
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