Schedules
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09/28/2023 5:00 pm |
Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2, K. 493 |
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| Musicians Christian Zacharias, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Tabea Zimmerman, and Tilmann Wick perform Mozart's `Piano Quartet No. 2' at the Ludwigsburg Festival. | |||||
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09/28/2023 5:32 pm |
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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09/28/2023 7:15 pm |
CMIM Piano 2021 |
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| Alice Burla performs Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonata No 13 in G, 'Impromptu', 'Scherzino' and 'Canzonetta' from Ernő Dohnányi's Six Pieces, Op 41, 'Fanfares' and 'Cordes à vide' from György Ligeti's Études, Book 1. | |||||
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09/28/2023 8:02 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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09/28/2023 8:31 pm |
Schubert: Four Impromptus Op. 90 |
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| Roberto Prosseda 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. | |||||
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09/28/2023 8:42 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/28/2023 9:01 pm |
Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - VI |
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| A six-part documentary on the life and work of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Director Liloye Boubli takes viewers on a journey through the life and work of the Brazilian legend of classical music. | |||||
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09/28/2023 9:29 pm |
A Tribute to Vienna |
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| Chamber music ensemble The Philharmonics pay tribute to the music of Vienna in a 2011 concert from Vienna's Café Sperl. The ensemble consists of musicians from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic performing five waltzes from Johann Straus II. | |||||
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09/28/2023 10:35 pm |
Brahms |
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| Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis leads his ensemble MusicAeterna alongside Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in a performance showcasing young, accomplished and energetic musicians. For this concert, they went searching for a new definition of the meaning of the word beauty. Thus, this 2015 performance from the renowned Musikfest Bremen sheds an entirely new light on two beloved classics by Brahms and Mendelssohn. | |||||
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09/28/2023 11:09 pm |
Schubert |
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| Ester Hoppe, Christian Poltéra and Francesco Piemontesi perform Schubert's Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 100 (D. 929) during the International Chamber Music Festival in Bellinzona, Switzerland in 2019. This trio was among the last compositions completed by Schubert and is dated November 1827. It was published in late 1828, shortly before Schubert's death, and first performed in January 1828 to celebrate the engagement of Schubert's friend Josef von Spaun. | |||||
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09/28/2023 11:57 pm |
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488 |
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| Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Romantic repertoire, Francesco Attesti (*1975) gave his first recital at age 11 and by the time he was 23, had earned the highest honours in piano from Florence's Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini. | |||||
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09/29/2023 12:25 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/29/2023 1:00 am |
Couperin's Premier Livre: Masterly Mix |
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| We have François Couperin to thank for some of the most stunning pages found in 18th century harpsichord literature. Numbering more than 220 solo pieces, his four collections contain much of Couperin's finest work. We found four keyboard heroes, each of whom was free to browse through his or her favourite volume. Aurélien Delage tackles the encyclopedic first volume - the calling card of a musical all-rounder. | |||||
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09/29/2023 2:01 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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09/29/2023 3:41 am |
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 |
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| Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig performing Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony. | |||||
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09/29/2023 5:05 am |
Antonio Manna: Il basso napolitano |
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| Stefano Demicheli conducts the Ensemble Talenti Vulcanici and soloists Nicola Cianncio (bass) and Catherine Jones (cello) in a varied baroque music program, recorded at Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Seina in Naples, Italy. | |||||
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09/29/2023 6:02 am |
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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09/29/2023 6:32 am |
Discovering Masterpieces |
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| Featuring discussions about Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 5'. | |||||
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09/29/2023 7:00 am |
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf |
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| Leonard Bernstein, David Bowie, Bill Clinton, and Mikhail Gorbachev have all narrated the symphonic fairy tale `Peter and the Wolf', composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. Every character is illustrated by a different instrument with its own theme. | |||||
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09/29/2023 7:27 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/29/2023 8:00 am |
Prokofiev |
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| The Malandain Ballet Biarritz performs the ballet Cinderella ('Cendrillon') Op. 87, composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov and in a choreography by Thierry Malandain. The Orchestre Symphonie d' Euskadi is led by Caballé-Domenech. Cinderella is one of Prokofief's most popular and melodious compositions. It was composed during World War II, but Prokofiev broke off the writing to compose his opera War and Peace. | |||||
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09/29/2023 9:41 am |
Voříšek: Symphony in D Major, Op. 23 |
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| Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester take us on a musical journey to the Czech Republic in this 2020 concert from Leipzig's Gewandhaus. The programme opens with Bohemian composer Jan Václav Hugo Voríšek's Symphony in D major. | |||||
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09/29/2023 10:15 am |
Schumann - Märchenbilder for viola & piano, Op 113 |
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| Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann and conductor/pianist András Schiff team up for a concert at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. András Schiff's versatile artistry excels both as pianist and conductor. | |||||
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09/29/2023 10:32 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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09/29/2023 11:00 am |
Lully - Persée |
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| Hervé Niquet conducts the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir in a stage production of Jean Baptiste Lully's opera Persée in Toronto. Among the soloists are Olivier Laquerre, Stephanie Novacek, Monica Whicher, Marie Lenormand, Alain Coulombe, and Curtis Sullivan. | |||||
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09/29/2023 1:08 pm |
Mozart Mass in C Minor, K 427 |
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| This rendition of Mozart's Mass in c minor, KV 427 by the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and conductor Helmuth Rilling is recorded at the Knights Hall in Schloss Wolfegg. | |||||
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09/29/2023 2:10 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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09/29/2023 3:09 pm |
Nielsen - Symphony No. 6 |
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| Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in this powerful performance taken from the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Denmark's national composer, Carl Nielsen. Alongside Nielsen's inscrutably ironic Symphony No. 6, this performance features world-renowned French pianist Lise de la Salle as soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 4. | |||||
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09/29/2023 3:44 pm |
J.D. Heinichen - Magnificat in A |
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| Patrick Debrabandere conducts the Vox Mago chamber choir in a performance of JD Heinichen's Magnificat in A. | |||||
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09/29/2023 3:58 pm |
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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09/29/2023 4:32 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||