![Vivaldi: Winter (the Four Seasons) [Cynthia Freivogel, Voices of Music]](https://cdn-0.andantemoderato.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Voices-of-Music-Vivaldi-Four-Seasons-Winter-Cynthia-Miller-Freivogel-768x432.jpg)
Accompanied by the San Francisco-based early music ensemble Voices of Music, the American violinist Cynthia Miller Freivogel who specialized in both baroque and modern violin performs Antonio Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons. The piece was performed on original period…
Swedish violinist Dan Almgren and the Swedish pianist Stefan Bojsten play Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for violin and piano, FP 119. Recorded by SVT (the Swedish public service broadcaster) in 1985.
Accompanied by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique in B-flat minor for violin and orchestra, Op. 26. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov. Recorded during a Tchaikovsky Gala in Leningrad (today’s Saint Petersburg).
Conducted by Claudio Abbado, one of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the 20th century, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra performs the overture of Lohengrin, WWV 75, a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by the German composer…
California-based early music ensemble Voices of Music performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with original instruments. Recorded at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California.
Perhaps the best-known triumphal march: from the second act of Giuseppe Verdi’s 1871 grand opera, Aïda (sometimes spelled Aida). This great opera was commissioned by and first performed at Cairo’s Khedivial Opera House (built on the orders of the Khedive…
![Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø and Spanish tenor José Carreras sing Quando sento que mi ami [Serrat]](https://cdn-0.andantemoderato.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kyrkjebo-Carreras-Quando-sento-que-mi-ami-768x432.jpg)
Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø and Spanish tenor José Carreras sing “Quando sento que mi ami” (When You Tell Me That You Love Me), a song written by the Catalan singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat (b. 1943).
Accompanied by the Orchestre de Paris, the Dutch violinist and violist Janine Jansen performs Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. Conductor: Paavo Järvi. Recorded in January 2015.
Spanish operatic lyric coloratura soprano Victoria de los Ángeles sings “Una voce poco fa” (English: A voice a little while ago) of Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa in two acts, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” (The Barber of Seville). From the BBC…
![Accompanied by the Italian chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti, Irish virtuoso flute player Sir James Galway performs Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major, RV 428 [Il gardellino] by Antonio Vivaldi](https://cdn-0.andantemoderato.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/James-Galway-Antonio-Vivaldi-Flute-Concerto-No-3-Il-Gardellino-768x432.jpg)
Accompanied by the Italian chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti, Irish virtuoso flute player Sir James Galway performs Antonio Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto No. 3 in D major, RV 428 “Il gardellino”. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.
Belgian baroque ensemble Il Gardellino performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe in c minor, BWV 1060R. Soloist (oboe): Marcel Ponseele. While the existing score is in the form of a concerto for harpsichord and strings (BWV 1060),…
Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and the Brazilian classical pianist Nelson Freire perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2, Op. 17, a composition for two pianos, which was composed in Italy in the first months of 1901. Recorded in Tokyo in October…