Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in C major, RV 450 [Laurent, Concerto Köln]
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.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 [Francesco Piemontesi]
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.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 [Nino Gvetadze]
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.
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet [Janine Jansen and Friends]
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…
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 [BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gergiev]
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) plays Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47.
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Fazıl Say]
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:…
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee [Berliner Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta]
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”.
Mike Batt: Caravans Theme [Live at Cadogan Hall, 2010]
Conducted by Mike Batt, the Secret Symphony Orchestra plays Batt’s “Main Theme” to the “Caravans”, a 1978 Iranian-American film directed by James Fargo based on the novel by James A. Michener. Recorded at Cadogan Hall, London, in May 2010.
Beethoven: Egmont Overture [Vienna Philharmonic, Thielemann]
Conducted by Christian Thielemann, the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra (Wiener Philharmoniker) plays the Overture of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Egmont, Op. 84, a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by the German writer and statesman…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 [Berliner Philharmoniker, Abbado]
Conducted by Claudio Abbado, one of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the 20th century, the Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) with Swedish Radio Choir and Eric Ericson Chamber Choir perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D…
Juan Diego Flórez sings Amapola
Peruvian operatic tenor Juan Diego Flórez sings “Amapola”, a 1924 song by Cádiz-born composer José María Lacalle García (later Joseph Lacalle). Recorded at the Latino Inaugural, on January 20, 2013, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., USA.
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor [Hans-André Stamm]
German composer and organist Hans-André Stamm (born 1958 in Leverkusen) plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 on the Trost-Organ of the Stadtkirche in Waltershausen, Germany.