Accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio (Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), French classical pianist Hélène Grimaud plays the second movement, “Adagio” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major (K. 488). The piece is recorded…
The concert of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela) at the Beethoven Festival. Bonn, 2007. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
Croatian virtuosa classical guitarist Ana Vidović plays Isaac Albéniz’s Asturias (Leyenda). The piece was originally written for the piano and set in the key of G minor, and first published in Barcelona, by Juan Bta. Pujol & Co., in 1892.…
Accompanied by the Orquesta de Cámara del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón “Camerata Aragón”, the Spanish oboist Lucas Macías Navarro plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Oboe d’amore Concerto in A Major” (Oboe d’amore Concerto in A Major), BWV 1055R. Conductor:…
Russian classical guitarist Elena Ashimova plays “A Day in November” (Un Die De November) by Leo Brouwer, the Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist (born March 1, 1939, in Havana). Video: Dmitry Mazurov.
Accompanied by the Concerto Köln, Benoit Laurent, the Belgian oboist who performs primarily early music compositions plays Antonio Vivaldi’s Oboe Concerto in C major, RV 450.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), Italian classical pianist Francesco Piemontesi performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503. Conductor: Manfred Honeck. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 27, 2015.
Accompanied by the Georgian Sinfonietta, Georgian classical pianist Nino Gvetadze plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58. Conductor: Markus Poschner.
Janine Jansen and Friends play Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57; one of the composer’s best-known chamber works. It is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola, and cello). This performance was recorded during Janine…
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) plays Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47.
Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), Turkish pianist Fazıl Say plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Alte Oper Frankfurt, March 1, 2013. Cadenza written by Fazıl Say. Encore:…
Conducted by Zubin Mehta, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker) performs Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee”, an orchestral interlude composed in 1899-1900 and written for the composers’ opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”.