The Cavatina Duo (Spanish flutist Eugenia Moliner and the Bosnian guitarist Denis Azabagic) perform Sonata in E major for flute and basso continuo (BWV 1035) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Recorded during the XVth Gliwice Guitar Festival (2013) in Poland.
Accompanied by the Trondheim Soloists, a musical chamber ensemble of string players based in Trondheim, Norway, the Norwegian violinist Mari Silje Samuelsen performs “Summer” from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni). Artistic Director: Øyvind Gimse. Video by Tor…
Leonora Spangenberger, the young German classical guitarist performs Fugue and Allegro from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998. Spangenberger plays a Curt Claus Voigt guitar which was built in 2004. Spangenberger was only 11…
Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, and Collegium Vocale Gent perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626). Soloists: Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Ingeborg Danz, alto; Mark Padmore, tenor; Alfred Reiter, bass. Recorded at the Royal Albert…
Conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Maurice Ravel’s La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra). Recorded at the hr-Sendesaal music venue on November 5, 2011.
Accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy performs Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, popularly known as the “Emperor Concerto”. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1974.
Russian concert pianist and composer Daniil Trifonov and the Armenian-American concert pianist Sergei Babayan perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2, Op. 17, a composition for two pianos. The piece was composed in Italy in the first months of 1901. Recorded…
Conducted by William Christie, the French Baroque musical ensemble Les Arts Florissants performs Susanna (HWV 66), a sacred oratorio in three acts, by George Frideric Händel. Broadcast by Mezzo, 2009.
Moldovan-Austrian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Turkish pianist Fazıl Say perform Franz Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A minor, D 385. The sonata was composed in 1816 when the Austrian composer was 19 years old.
Michala Petri (recorder) and Lars Hannibal (lute) play Johann Sebastian Bach’s Flute Sonata in C major for flute (recorder) and basso continuo (BWV 1033).
The Carmina Quartet performs Fandango from the Italian classical era composer and cellist Luigi Boccherini‘s Guitar Quintet G. 448 in D Major. Matthias Enderle, violin 1, Susanne Frank, violin 2, Wendy Champney, viola and Stephan Goerner, violoncello with Rolf Lislevand,…
Conducted by Joan Pagès Valls, the Orchestra of the Music High School Schloss Belvedere performs Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20, a piece for string orchestra in three short movements. This performance was recorded at the…