Schedules
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09/15/2023 4:00 pm |
German Brass Goes Bach |
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| The German Brass ensemble delivers some of Bach's most popular tunes in breathtaking brass arrangements. Recorded live from the magnificent St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, this concert features timeless pieces by the legendary German composer. | |||||
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09/15/2023 5:00 pm |
Symphonies in D by Mozart and Voríšek |
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| Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester perform a concert from Leipzig's Gewandhaus. The performance includes Jan Václav Hugo Voríšek's `Symphony in D major' and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's `Symphony No 38'. | |||||
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09/15/2023 6:19 pm |
CMIM Piano 2021 |
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| Krzysztof Książek performs J S Bach's `Prelude and Fugue' in B minor, BWV 869, Karol Szymanowski's Mazurkas, Op 50 (Nos 1 to 4), and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Études-Tableaux, Op 33, during the semi-finals. | |||||
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09/15/2023 7:03 pm |
England, My England: II |
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| From 28 August to 6 September 2015, the Early Music Festival Utrecht focused on `England, My England'. On the basis of the festival theme, presenter Lex Bohlmeijer takes the viewer in a two-part journey through England. | |||||
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09/15/2023 7:24 pm |
Chopin |
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| Russian pianist Zlata Chochieva performs live at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on 13 April 2020. The programme opens with a selection of Felix Mendelssohn's `Songs Without Words', Op 67, No 5 and No 2. | |||||
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09/15/2023 7:42 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/15/2023 8:01 pm |
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 |
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| Bernhard Haitink conducts the Berlin Philharmonic and the Ernst Senff Choir in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at the Berliner Philharmonie in 1992. | |||||
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09/15/2023 9:28 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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09/15/2023 10:32 pm |
Discovering Masterpieces |
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| This `Fantastic Symphony' is widely regarded as one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period. Leonard Bernstein once called it the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its dream-like nature. | |||||
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09/15/2023 11:01 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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09/15/2023 11:22 pm |
Rota - 'The Godfather' Suite |
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| This exclusive live concert production presents a unique selection of movie classics - from Sergio Leone's iconic Spaghetti Westerns to modern mafia masterpieces by Francis Ford Coppola and the cult movies of Tarantino. | |||||
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09/15/2023 11:35 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/16/2023 12:04 am |
Segatta - Concerto Bizantino |
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| The La Piccola Orchestra Lumière performs the piece `Concerto Bizantino' by Italian contemporary composer Nicola Segatta. Cellist Giovanni Sollima is the leading soloist in this performance, and the orchestra is conducted by Marcello Fera. | |||||
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09/16/2023 12:45 am |
Arvo Pärt - Kanon Pokajanen |
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| Arvo Pärt based his Kanon Pokajanen (from `Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ', 1995-97) on the canon of repentance as handed down in the earliest Slavic-Christian manuscripts, dating back to the sixth century after Christ. The canon symbolises the change, the transformation from day to night, the Old and New Testament, prophecy and the fulfilment, the here and now and the hereafter. | |||||
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09/16/2023 2:28 am |
Piano Works by Liszt and Morricone |
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| Italian classical pianist Roberto Prosseda, best known for his recordings of lost works by Mendelssohn, performs challenging pieces by the Romantic pianist Franz Liszt and the film composer Ennio Morricone. | |||||
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09/16/2023 3:11 am |
PIAM |
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| Chinese pianist Ying Li performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's `Sonata No 13 in B-flat major' and Béla Bartók's `Sonata, BB 88, Sz.80' at the Nuovo Teatro Ariberto in Milan in June 2021. | |||||
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09/16/2023 3:45 am |
Bizet - Symphony in C |
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| A sparkling performance of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous `Piano Concerto No 1' by the incredible piano virtuoso Russian Daniil Trifonov, with Kent Nagano conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. | |||||
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09/16/2023 4:24 am |
Europakonzert 2007: Berlin |
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| The 2007 European Concert takes place in Berlin, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Under the theme The Year 1882, the acclaimed orchestra is lead by conductor Sir SImon Rattle as it interprets Brahms' `Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra', his `Fourth Symphony' and Wagners' `Prelude to Act I' from Parsifal. | |||||
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09/16/2023 6:06 am |
Franz Liszt Competition 2017 - Semi Final I |
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| Alexander Ullman performs Wagner/Liszt - Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde, S447 and Beethoven/Liszt - Symphony No. 1 in C major. | |||||
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09/16/2023 6:36 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/16/2023 7:00 am |
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 |
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| Every two years, promising young vocalists gather in Wales' capital city to take part in one of the world's most prestigious singing competitions: the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. | |||||
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09/16/2023 8:31 am |
Pletnev Conducts Bizet & Ravel's Concerto No. 1 |
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| Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra in a performance of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto No 1 with Lucas Debargue as the soloist: recorded at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow as part of the Ninth RNO Grand Festival. | |||||
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09/16/2023 9:32 am |
Stravinsky |
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| The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink closes the Berlin Philharmonic's Europakonzert at the Royal Albert Hall in London with Stravinsky's `Rite of Spring', which he wrote in 1913 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The première caused a sensation and near-riot in the audience due to the avant-garde nature, music and choreography of the piece. | |||||
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09/16/2023 9:49 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/16/2023 10:00 am |
Lehár |
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| Paris, the city of love, is an excellent setting for an operetta, Franz Lehár must have thought when he was composing Die Lustige Witwe. Widow Hanna Glawari is perversely rich. The ambassador of the poverty-stricken Grand Duchy of Pontevedro wants to avoid that her money ends up in foreign hands, and means to find Hanna a suitable husband. | |||||
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09/16/2023 12:25 pm |
Waldbuhne 1999: A Romantic Opera Night |
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| James Levine conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Ben Heppner in a performance of classics. | |||||
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09/16/2023 2:22 pm |
Discovering Masterpieces |
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| Claude Debussy's `La Mer', masterpiece of suggestion and subtlety, richly depicts the ocean. | |||||
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09/16/2023 2:50 pm |
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9, Op. 70 |
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| The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Neeme Järvi presents the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Double concerto for cello, piano and orchestra. Soloists are Martha Argerich (piano) and Mischa Maisky (cello). | |||||
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09/16/2023 3:18 pm |
Escaich - Trois Motets |
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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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09/16/2023 3:33 pm |
Chopin |
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| Krystian Zimerman plays the Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 by Frédéric Chopin. Zimerman was born in Zabrze on 7 December 1956. He made his first major breakthrough in 1975, when he won the first prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. | |||||