Roberto Prosseda (1975) performs Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 5 (KV. 283) and four Impromptus Op. 90 by Franz Schubert. The performance ends with Chopin's technically demanding Ballade No. 4, Op. 52. Roberto Prosseda (1975) performs Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 5 (KV. 283) and four Impromptus…
Baritone Arvid Fagerfjäll (Sweden, 1991) and pianist Hikaru Kanki (Japan, 1993) perform works by Robert Schumann, Henriëtte Bosmans, Franz Schubert, Aribert Reimann, Jean Sibelius, Hugo Wolf, Francis Poulenc, André Caplet, and Claude Debussy, during the final round of the International Vocal Competition 2021 – Lied…
J. S. Bach's six Brandenburg Concerto's belong to his best-known works. In celebration of the pieces' 300th anniversary, Czech harpsichordist and conductor Václav Luks and the renowned Baroque ensemble Collegium 1704 present Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049. J. S. Bach's…
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…
The great clarinettist Paolo Beltramini plays a program of solo pieces for clarinet. In this broadcast, Beltramini performs C.P.E. Bach's Solfeggietto, Béla Kovac's Hommage a Paganini, and Igor Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo. The great clarinettist Paolo Beltramini plays a program of solo pieces…
Indian conductor Zubin Mehta (1936) became Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) in 1977 and was appointed Music Director for Life in 1981. On July 18, 1996, Mehta led the IPO in its first-ever performance of Richard Strauss's tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige…
In this recording of his 2016 Deeply Mozart concert tour, Francesco Attesti (.1975) performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano concertos KV 449 and KV 488 with the Italian OIDA Orchestra and conductor Paolo Belloli. Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Romantic repertoire, Francesco Attesti…
The then-newly founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra presents this stunning performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in August 2003, under the baton of Claudio Abbado. The soloists Eteri Gvazava (soprano) and Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano) are accompanied by the singers of the Orfeón Donostiarra choir. "It would be…
The documentary "The Three Lives of Clara Schumann" traces the fascinating life story of German pianist and composer Clara Schumann. Basing itself on her letters and diaries, her compositions, and on accounts from musicians who have intensively studied her music, this 2019 documentary offers a…
Franz Welser-Möst leads the Cleveland Orchestra in a concert performing Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40. Violin soloist is David Radzynski. Recorded at Severance Hall in Cleveland in February 2023. Strauss, at the age of 34, sparked outrage when he cast himself as the central…
Robert Schumann wrote Carnaval, Op. 9 in 1834–1835. It consists of 21 short pieces representing masked revelers at Carnival, a festival before Lent. Schumann gives musical expression to himself, his friends and colleagues, and characters from improvised Italian comedy (commedia dell'arte). Acclaimed pianist Riccardo Schwartz…
Renowned French string quartet Quatuor Ébene marked the 250th birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) with a remarkable project: recording all of the great composer's sixteen string quartets. For five years, violinists Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure, violist Marie Chilemme, and cellist Raphaël…
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance recorded on March 18, 2021, at St. Luke's in London. The program features Antonín Dvořák's Scherzo Capriccioso and selections from Act II of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the…
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…
The Russian pianist Grigroy Sokolov is one of the greatest of our time. In 2015, he played a beautiful recital with works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Debussy that took place at the Festival La Roque D'Anthéron in Aix-en-Provence. The shy and elusive Grigroy…
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Enrico Pace (piano). Johann Sebastian Bach probably wrote this set of six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord during his time as chapel master in Köthen. Presumably, he wrote these sonatas for Prince Leopold and later adapted them for further use in…
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence Musical May) is Italy's oldest opera and arts festival. As part of the festival's 2021 edition, Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a wonderful concert program that includes Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2…
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…
Conrad van Alphen leads Sinfonia Rotterdam in a performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, 'Winter Daydreams', recorded at De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in September 2022. Conrad van Alphen leads Sinfonia Rotterdam in a performance of Pyotr…
Maestro Zubin Mehta leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's comic opera Cosi fan tutte (1790). Following the successful operas Le nozze di Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787), Cosi fan tutte was the third…
Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a deeply personal song cycle for voice and orchestra inspired by Friedrich Rückert's poems about the loss of his children. Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a deeply personal song cycle for voice…
One of the world's most popular pieces of classical music, Maurice Ravel's Boléro (1928), was no longer copyrighted as of May 1, 2016. Up to then it had made Ravel and his heirs millions. Ravel died in 1937 and left all he owned to his…
Kompletný TV program stanice Brava HDTV na pondelok 26. 10. 2026. Hlavný večerný program začína o 21:03 reláciou Bach - Sonata No. 2 BWV 1015.