American tenor and Hollywood star of Italian origin, Mario Lanza sings “Torna a Surriento” (Come back to Sorrento), a Neapolitan song composed in 1902 by Italian musician Ernesto De Curtis (October 4, 1875 – December 31, 1937) to words by…
Accompanied by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Argentine classical pianist Martha Argerich performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly. Recorded on December 5th, 1982.
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonious Garden) performs Antoine Forqueray’s (the French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba, 1671-1745) La Couperin, a piece written for the harpsichord or Viola da Gamba and basso continuo (here…
Accompanied by the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), the Romanian concert pianist Radu Lupu performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488). Conductor: Sándor Végh.
The great Argentine classical pianist Martha Argerich performs Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D-flat major. Filmed in Munich in 1966.
An early music concert: Folies d’Espagne: conducted by Jordi Savall, international early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI performs folias from Spain. La Folía (Spanish), also Folies d’Espagne (French), Follies of Spain (English), or Follia (Italian), is one of the oldest remembered…
Croatian classical guitarist Zoran Dukić (born 1969 in Zagreb) performs the Polish guitarist and composer Gerard Drozd’s Adagio op. 44 (Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach). Live recording at the International Gliwice Guitar Festival on November 4, 2012.
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Conducted by Seiji Ozawa, the Saito Kinen Orchestra and Chorus perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80; simply known as the “Choral Fantasy”. Piano: Martha Argerich. This performance was in the summer…
Orfeo 55, the chamber orchestra founded by Nathalie Stutzmann performs cantatas from Johann Sebastian Bach. This beautiful performance titled “Une cantate imaginaire / An imaginary cantata” was recorded during the Festival d’Ambronay on October 6, 2012. Contralto and conductor: Nathalie…
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), Burcu Karadağ performs Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say‘s Ney Concerto (Hezârfen, concerto for ney-flute and orchestra). Conductor: Howard Griffiths. Recorded at hr-Sendesaal, Frankfurt on November 10, 2012.
Conducted by Ton Koopman, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 19 in E flat major, K. 132. This performance was recorded at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre on June 5, 1991. The Symphony No. 19 was composed…
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (English: The Harmonious Garden) and the French cellist, viola da gamba player and conductor Christophe Coin perform four of Antonio Vivaldi’s cello concertos: RV 409, RV 410, RV 419, and RV 414.