Maria João Pires, one of the finest pianists of her generation, performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, usually referred to as “The Tempest”. Recorded on November 21, 2013, at Salle Pleyel…
Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein performs George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Composed in 1924, the work is for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music…
Conducted by Vasily Petrenko, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58. This performance was recorded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 18, 2016.
Accompanied by the Saito Kinen Orchestra, Japanese naturalised-British classical pianist Mitsuko Uchida performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
Accompanied by the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome; Chinese classical pianist Yuja Wang performs Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101. Conductor: Antonio Pappano.
Accompanied by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the German cellist Maximilian Hornung perform Johannes Brahms’ Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, a concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
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Accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Israeli classical clarinetist Sharon Kam, one of the world’s leading clarinet soloists performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622. Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Recorded live at the Estates Theatre in Prague…
Accompanied by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI), the Soviet-born Israeli-American pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Sergei Prokofiev‘s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky, flute: Giampaolo Pretto. This performance was…
Daniel Barenboim plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 2, No. 2. Recorded live in Berlin in 2005.
Accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, considered by many to have been the greatest cellist of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of all time, Mstislav Rostropovich plays Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1…
Two versions of the anonymous Venezuelan folk song Montilla. The first version is from Christina Pluhar and the L’arpeggiata, singer: Luciana Mancini. The second version is performed by the Chilean group Inti-Illimani Histórico, from their 2006 album titled “Esencial”.
Spanish classical guitarist Anabel Montesinos plays Asturias (Leyenda), a musical work written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. This video was recorded in 2010. “It “Leyenda” was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor,…