After recording all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birth anniversary, celebrated Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz decided to record solo piano works by Robert Schumann. In this performance, Schwartz presents Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13. Composed between 1834-37, the work…
Sir Simon Rattle leads the London Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Mahler's poignant song cycle 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth). Joining him are two of today's leading vocalists: mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and tenor Andrew Staples. Written in the final years of…
Roberto Giordano performs Chopin's Ballade No. 1, Op. 23. The sketches of the work date back to 1831 during Chopin's eight-month stay in Vienna. The first ballade was completed in 1835 after the composer moved to Paris. The work gained popularity after appearing on the…
Baritone Samuel Hasselhorn and pianist Daniel Heide perform Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise ('Winter's journey'). In twenty-four songs, we follow a rejected young man on a lonely journey through a frozen landscape. This performance was recorded at Schloss Wörlitz, part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm,…
Italian conductor Andrea Vitello leads Ensemble BIOS in a performance of 'Someone Out There is Praying for Peace (Let Us Not Be the Reason), III', by contemporary Canadian composer Rita Ueda. This piece is written for strings and sho, a Japanese free-reed mouth organ, played…
This documentary by Mark Perna shows the training and professional growth actions for opera singers, the promotion and enhancement of the cultural offer of the city and province of Modena and the maintenance and development of the Modenese musical tradition in the field of opera.…
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig leads the Flanders Symphony Orchestra in this concert recorded at Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium, on April 21, 2016. The program includes Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (The Hebrides); Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, featuring Pascal Amoyel…
In a 2019 performance from the Muziekgebouw in Eindhoven, Hartmut Haenchen conducts the philharmonie zuidnederland for this performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. The majestic opening theme of the first movement of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 foreshadows a momentous work, lasting over 20…
For three years, Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra presented the nine Beethoven symphonies on a world tour. Director Michael Waldman drew a captivating documentary. Founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is composed of young musicians from Israel, Palestine,…
American conductor Jonathon Heyward makes his debut with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) with this performance of Antonín Dvořák's beloved Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From the New World". This performance was recorded at LSO St. Luke's on Old Street in London,…
Margarita Höhenrieder, Staatskapelle Dresden. Confusing as it may be: Ludwig van Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto was in fact composed ten years prior to his First Piano Concerto. The cause of this mess lies with the composer himself: Beethoven held back the publication of what we…
Young Venezuelan conductor Glass Marcano is a rising star. In this concert, recorded at Opéra de Tours in February 2021, Marcano leads the Orchestre Symphonique Région Centre-Val de Loire/Tours in performances of two Romantic masterpieces. The program opens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto in…
'A Descent into the Maelström' (1841) is American writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story of two fishermen caught in torrents raging between the mountainous islands of Lofoten, inside the Arctic Circle of northern Norway. After a treacherous whirlpool drags their boat down, only one of…
Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan and the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris recorded all of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in 2014-2015. In this program, maestro Jordan presents Beethoven's final symphony: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125. He conducts the Orchestre and Choeurs de…
Musical critics from North America, Europe, and Russia praise Nalchik-born pianist Misha Fomin for his subtlety of touch and phrasing. For this 2018 concert, Fomin returned to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw to interpret wonderful works of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. Musical critics from North America, Europe, and Russia…
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Enrico Pace (piano). This Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No.6 BWV 1019 is the last of the set of sonatas that Johann Sebastian Bach composed before 1725, probably while working as chapel master in Köthen. He presumably wrote these sonatas for…
Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan and the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris recorded all of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in 2014-2015. In this program, Jordan conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony. This performance was recorded…
Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in a program recorded at Severance Music Center in Cleveland in March 2023. On the program are Louise Farrenc's Symphony No. 3, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G (featuring Vikingur Ólafsson as soloist) and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestration…
Colombian principal conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada took the Spanish Orquesta Sinfónica Freixenet on the road to perform at some of Europe's greatest music centers in celebration of Madrid's Reina Sofía School of Music's 30th anniversary. This concert features a wonderful performance of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No.…
Johan de Meij conducts two of his own works: "Echoes of San Marco," a tribute to Giovanni Gabrielli and "Fellini," a tribute to film composer Federico Fellini. Saxophonist Hans de Jong is the soloist. Recorded at the Sala dei Teatini of the Teatri di Piacenza…
Roberto Abbado conducts the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, and four vocal soloists in an outstanding performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem, recorded at the Parco Ducale di Parma, Italy as part of Festival Verdi 2020. The soloists are…
The film Jaroussky sings Bach & Telemann is a portrait of a very special vocalist - and of two exceptional composers: Telemann and Bach. The film Jaroussky sings Bach & Telemann is a portrait of a very special vocalist, and of two exceptional composers. When…
This 'In Rehearsal' episode features the Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen rehearsing Claude Debussy's Impressionistic orchestral piece La Mer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. It gives a fascinating insight into Salonen's…
Conductor Eduard Topchjan leads the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14. Berlioz wrote the piece of program music in 1830 while still a conservatory student. Inspired on the composer's unrequited love for Irish actress Harriet Smithson, the…
Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig leads the Flanders Symphony Orchestra in this concert recorded at Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium, on April 21, 2016. The program includes Felix Mendelssohn's concert overture Die Hebriden, Op. 26 (The Hebrides); Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, featuring Pascal Amoyel…
Kompletný TV program stanice Brava HDTV na streda 14. 10. 2026. Hlavný večerný program začína o 21:02 reláciou Welser-Möst conducts Farrenc, Ravel & Mussorgsky.