Schedules
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07/01/2022 4:00 pm |
House of Dreams |
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| Imaginative concert designed by Alison Mackay, forming a magical journey to the meeting places of baroque art and music: five European homes in which exquisite works by Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell and Marais are played against a backdrop of paintings by Vermeer, Canaletto, and Watteau. The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, also known simply as Tafelmusik, perform. | |||||
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07/01/2022 5:31 pm |
Piano works by Bach, Chopin & Liszt |
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| Leonora Armellini plays Ferruccio Busoni's adaptation of Bach's Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, BWV 903, followed by Frédéric Chopin's Etudes, Op 25. The recital ends with Franz Liszt's Après une lecture de Dante, Fantasia Quasi Sonata. | |||||
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07/01/2022 6:37 pm |
Franck - Sonata for Violin and Piano |
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| Over the course of eleven days in August 2020, the French town of Rocamadour hosted the fifteenth edition of Festival de Rocamadour, a music festival dedicated to sacred music from the classical, baroque, and romantic periods. | |||||
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07/01/2022 7:08 pm |
My Heart Is Burning |
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| René Pape sings and plays various roles that showcase the impressive versatility of his voice and the many facets of his personality. | |||||
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07/01/2022 8:07 pm |
Bruckner |
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| Bruckner's Fifth Symphony has been called `the Medieval' because of its multi-layered, Baroque, contrapuntal tonal textures and `the Catholic' because of its solemn majesty. These designations are uniquely fitting to the work. Bruckner himself called it his `Fantastic', especially when it is performed at the Monastery of St Florian, as on this recording. It is not without reason that Bruckner also called the Fifth his contrapuntal masterpiece. | |||||
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07/01/2022 9:25 pm |
Roberto Giordano Plays Brahms and Beethoven |
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| In this recital, Roberto Giordano plays the Six Pieces for Piano, opus 118 of Brahms. The concert program also includes Beethoven's famous Moonlight Sonata No 14, opus 27, and Sonata No 31, opus 110, one of the last sonatas signed by the composer. | |||||
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07/01/2022 10:28 pm |
Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - IV |
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| A look at the composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist Heitor Villa-Lobos, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887. Featuring a performance of his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano IV'. | |||||
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07/01/2022 10:54 pm |
Brahms |
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| In this splendid 2013 concert from the Church of Verbier, Switzerland, Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos and Chinese pianist Yuja Wang join forces to interpret three sonatas by Johannes Brahms. Leonidas Kavakos rose to fame in 1985, when he became the youngest musician to ever win the first price of the prestigious Sibelius Competition. With Yuja Wang, an accomplished artist at young age herself, he forms a masterful duo of chamber music interpretation. | |||||
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07/01/2022 11:23 pm |
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez |
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07/02/2022 12:01 am |
Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace |
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| Karl Jenkins' `The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace' will be performed in New York today as part of a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This performance was recorded at Cardiff's St David's Hall as part of the composer's 60th birthday celebrations. Conducted by the composer himself, it features the Welsh National Opera orchestra, four choirs and various solos. | |||||
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07/02/2022 1:11 am |
Berlioz |
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| Mariss Jansons conducts as the Berlin Philharmonic perform Berlioz's `Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14' for their European Concert recorded in the Hagia Eirene church in Istanbul, Turkey. | |||||
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07/02/2022 2:05 am |
Rachmaninoff |
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| The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz won his first praise on his interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto from the composer himself. When Rachmaninoff heard the young Kiev-born pianist play his work shortly after Horowitz's arrival in New York in 1928, he exclaimed: "he swallowed it whole". Fifty years later, on 24 September 1978, Horowitz electrified his audience once again with this monumental work. | |||||
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07/02/2022 2:59 am |
Martinů - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra |
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07/02/2022 3:24 am |
Pletnev conducts Ravel & Scriabin |
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| The Russian National Orchestra and the Moscow Synodal Choir are led by maestro Mikhail Pletnev from the ninth Russian National Orchestra Grand Festival, opening with a performance of Maurice Ravel's music suite to the ballet `Daphnis and Chloe'. | |||||
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07/02/2022 4:16 am |
CMIM Violin 2019 |
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| Fumika Mohri performs Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D minor, Op 47, during the finals of the 2019 Violin Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal, held in Canada. | |||||
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07/02/2022 4:51 am |
First Snow |
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| One of the first Christmas carols ever written is `Salvatoris Hodie', which opens First Snow: the Christmas concert by the Brussels Philharmonic. Also featuring is a performance of two contemporary melodies penned by conductor Bo Holten. | |||||
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07/02/2022 7:00 am |
Piano works by Rossini, Verdi, Rendano |
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| Dedicated to music of Italian composers and performed by Italian musicians on Italian instruments. Covering four centuries of music: from Girolamo Frescobaldi and Antonio Vivaldi to more contemporary music by Ennio Morricone and Azio Corghi. | |||||
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07/02/2022 7:35 am |
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo |
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| Musical director Emiliano Gonzalez Toro leads Ensemble I Gemelli in this 2021 performance of Claudio Monteverdi's late-Renaissance opera L'Orfeo at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes, France. | |||||
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07/02/2022 9:18 am |
Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 |
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| Barbara Hannigan conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a concert recorded at the Lucerne Festival of 2014. There are pianists who also conduct, and concert masters who lead their orchestra from the violin desk. | |||||
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07/02/2022 10:00 am |
Purcell: King Arthur |
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| `King Arthur' is about the two kings Arthur and Oswald, who are both after the Holy Grail. In the famous stammer aria, the aloof Oswald melts for the fair Grail keeper Emmeline. When she breaks him the news that her heart belongs to King Arthur, Oswald decides to kidnap her. The competing Kings' struggle ends in a nerve-racking duel. Romantic scenes alternate with fiery fights, and dance plays an important role in this staging of 'King Arthur'. | |||||
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07/02/2022 11:42 am |
A Mozart Concert From Berlin |
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| The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra delivers a program entirely devoted to Mozart at the Konzerthaus in Berlin under the direction of Hartmut Haenchen. In reduced form, the ensemble brings to life the many characteristics of the music. | |||||
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07/02/2022 12:56 pm |
Music In The Air |
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| This is a review of what television brought to musical life over the years, from formats such as "Last Night of the Proms" or the New Year's Concert to building priceless archives with Stravinsky conducting his own Firebird. | |||||
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07/02/2022 1:55 pm |
Dvořák |
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| Emmanuel Krivine leads the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104, featuring Aleksandr Khramouchin as the soloist. The Cello Concerto is one of the most-performed works in its genre. | |||||
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07/02/2022 2:42 pm |
Stingray Originals - Seljan Nasibli |
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| Originally from Azerbaijan, Seljan Nasibli started to play the piano and violin at the age of five. After moving to England at an early age, she was encouraged to pick up music and chose to sing jazz before training classically. | |||||