Mahler: Symphony No. 5 [Abbado]
Conducted by Claudio Abbado, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra performs Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. Recorded in 2004.
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances [Prague Symphony Orchestra]
Conducted by Tomáš Brauner, the Prague Symphony Orchestra (Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK) performs Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances, a series of 16 orchestral pieces written in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus…
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 [Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Eivind Gullberg Jensen]
Conducted by Eivind Gullberg Jensen, the Dutch Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) plays Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27. Recorded on October 3, 2010, at the Royal Concertgebouw te Amsterdam (Royal Concert Building of Amsterdam).
Ravel: Boléro (London Symphony Orchestra & Gergiev)
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, one of the premier orchestras in the world, the London Symphony Orchestra plays Maurice Ravel’s most famous musical composition, “Boléro”, the one-movement orchestral piece originally composed as a ballet.
Stravinsky: The Firebird [Vienna Philharmonic & Gergiev]
Conducted by Valery Gergiev, the Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) plays Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” (French: L’oiseau de feu; Russian: Zhar-ptitsa); a ballet and orchestral concert work, written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes…
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 [Wiener Philharmoniker, Thielemann]
Conducted by Christian Thielemann, The Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra) plays Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92.
Sviridov: Romance (State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia)
Moscow-based State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, sometimes known in English as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra) plays Georgy Sviridov’s “Romance”, from his “The Blizzard, musical illustrations after Pushkin (1975)”, that were originally written for the eponymous…
Jordi Savall: Lachrimae Caravaggio
A strikingly beautiful performance by Jordi Savall and his ensemble “Le Concert des Nations”, an orchestra with period instruments. Lachrimae Caravaggio – “Caravaggio’s tears”. Pieces from Musical Europe in the time of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).…
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, the “Italian” [Brüggen]
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Conducted by Frans Brüggen, one of the foremost experts in the performance of eighteenth-century music, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Dutch: Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw) plays Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known…
Vivaldi: Il Favorito, RV 277 [Huggett, New York Baroque Incorporated]
Vivaldi’s Concerto for violin, strings, and figured bass in E minor, “Il Favorito,” RV 277; performed by New York Baroque Incorporated & Monica Huggett. This performance was recorded on March 23, 2013, at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in…
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, KV 427 [Gardiner]
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Monteverdi Choir perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 Recorded during the Nobel Prize Concert, 2008.
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
The Sonata for flute, viola, and harp (French: Sonate pour flûte, alto, et harpe), L. 137, was written by the French composer Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) in 1915. Here it is played by the “Formosa…