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…
Conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Czech early music orchestra and choir Collegium 1704 performs arias and concertos from the Baroque period composers George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. Soloists (guest musicians): Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano; Anna Fusek, flautino.
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Conducted by Jordi Savall, the early music ensemble Hespèrion XXI, and the orchestra with period instruments Le Concert des Nations perform Messe et motets pour la Vierge (mass and motets for the Virgin) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Recorded at the Le…
Italian early music ensemble Il Giardino Armonico (English: The Harmonious Garden) performs Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris Quartets (Quatuor Parisien) No. 12 (Chaconne).
San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048, on original instruments. Recorded at St. Stephen’s Church, Belvedere, California.
Camerata Quartet performs Polish guitarist and composer Gerard Drozd’s String Quartet, No. 3, Op. 155. From the 17th International Gliwice Guitar Festival. One of the beautiful pieces of contemporary music, enjoy!
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo and American musical group The Piano Guys perform “Silent Night” (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht), a popular Christmas carol. It was composed in 1818 by the Austrian primary school teacher and church organist Franz Xaver Gruber…
French classical and opera singer (contralto) and conductor Nathalie Stutzmann records “Erbarme Dich” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244) at Metz Arsenal. Orfeo 55, the chamber orchestra founded by Stutzmann herself accompanies her during the recording.…
Phoebe Jevtović Rosquist (soprano) and David Tayler (archlute) perform Flow My Tears (Lachrimae), a lute song (specifically, an “ayre”) by the Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626). HD video from the “Saturday Night…
Renowned Soviet classical musicians, violinist David Oistrakh and pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who are known for the depth of their interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire, perform Johannes Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 (“Thun” or “Meistersinger”).
Early music ensemble Musica Narrans performs Folia variations by the baroque period composers Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Marin Marais.