Schedules
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12/24/2023 6:00 pm |
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24, KV 491 |
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| The Piano Concerto No. 24, KV 491 has a minor harmonic structure reminiscent of Don Giovanni. In this performance, recorded at Schönbrunn palace in Vienna, Andre Previn is the soloist and conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. | |||||
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12/24/2023 6:36 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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12/24/2023 8:07 pm |
CMIM Piano 2021 |
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| Ken Nakasako performs Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 6, in F, Op 10/2, and Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata No 18 in G, D 894, during the semi-finals of the 2021 Piano Edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal. | |||||
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12/24/2023 8:51 pm |
Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - V |
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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 his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano V'. | |||||
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12/24/2023 9:15 pm |
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 KV. 333 |
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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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12/24/2023 9:37 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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12/24/2023 10:02 pm |
Josquin in Spain - Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariæ |
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| Juxtaposing Josquin's Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae with music by Morales and Guerrero. | |||||
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12/24/2023 10:50 pm |
Inside the Hearing Machine |
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| Tom Beghin records Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Opus 109, 110, and 111 in an artistic exploration of how Beethoven's music was shaped by the work environment he created with the help of colleagues and friends. | |||||
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12/24/2023 11:45 pm |
Beethoven - Violin Concerto |
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| Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman and the Berliner Philharmoniker perform the `Violin Concerto', Opus 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Beethoven dedicated his violin concerto to his colleague Franz Clement. | |||||
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12/25/2023 12:28 am |
Brahms |
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| The Europakonzert in Athens in 2004 saw the Berliner Philharmoniker performing live at the ancient Herodes Atticus Theatre along with an interesting combination of conductor and soloist, with Sir Simon Rattle wielding the baton and pianist Daniel Barenboim playing Johannes Brahms' `Piano Concerto No. 1'. | |||||
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12/25/2023 1:21 am |
Bach - Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82 |
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| A portrait of a very special vocalist and of two exceptional composers. When Philippe Jaroussky, whose angelic voice seems almost timeless and not belonging to any one epoque or decade, sings works by Telemann and Bach. | |||||
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12/25/2023 1:46 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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12/25/2023 2:01 am |
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017 |
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| Singers from Armenia, England, Scotland, Uzbekistan and Australia perform arias by composers including Handel, Massenet and Gounod, as they try to win a final spot. | |||||
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12/25/2023 3:31 am |
Mozart |
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| Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), one of Mozart's five great repertoire operas, was a great success during Mozart's lifetime and to this day has not lost any of its magic. | |||||
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12/25/2023 6:31 am |
Songs by Wolf, Beethoven & Liszt |
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| German baritone Dietrich Henschel and pianist Arno Waschk bundle their forces in a Lieder program featuring compositions by Hugo Wolf, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, recorded at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin on April 10, 2020. | |||||
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12/25/2023 7:20 am |
Berio - Sinfonia |
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| Soviet-born conductor Semyon Bychkov leads the Czech Philharmonic and London Voices in a concert recorded at the Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall, Prague in October 2018. Compositions include Luciano Berio's `Sinfonia for Eight Voices and Orchestra' and more. | |||||
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12/25/2023 7:56 am |
Behind the Scenes |
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| Behind the scenes at the Zurich Opera House, one of the most renowned in Europe, where fifteen premiers are staged each year. An insight into the curtain to understanding an opera house's many exciting facets. | |||||
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12/25/2023 9:00 am |
J. S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 |
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| Traditionally, many ensembles festively announce the Christmas season with a performance of Johannes Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248. It consists of six cantatas originally intended for performance on one of the major feast days. | |||||
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12/25/2023 11:32 am |
Nizamov - Heavenly Movement |
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| Piano soloist Boris Berezovsky is accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Sladkovsky in a performance of Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto no One, Op One. | |||||
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12/25/2023 11:42 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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12/25/2023 12:00 pm |
Verdi - Nabucco |
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| Israeli-born conductor Daniel Oren leads the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona in a magnificent interpretation of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco. Verdi's third opera, but first great popular success, was created at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1842. | |||||
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12/25/2023 2:18 pm |
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra |
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| In 1996, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 60th anniversary with a gala led by maestro Zubin Mehta. This musical event features world-renowned soloists, including veteran violinist Isaac Stern, up-and-coming musicians Maxim Vengerov and Gil Shaham, as well as Pinchas Zukerman, Shlomo Mintz, and Itzhak Perlman. The evening begins with a moving speech about the early days of the orchestra. | |||||
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12/25/2023 4:13 pm |
Modena: The Belcanto School |
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| Modena and its opera tradition, derived from a long history with roots in the area's folk culture, are located with the region with the highest concentration of opera houses in the world. | |||||
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12/25/2023 4:38 pm |
Stravinsky |
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| Few premieres will have been as troublesome as that of Igor Stravinsky's ballet `Le Sacre du Printemps'. The ballet, written for Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, tells the story of a young girl that literally has to dance herself to death as a sacrifice to the sun god, but it was not met with much understanding among its 1913's listeners. | |||||
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12/25/2023 5:12 pm |
Hildegard von Bingen - Chants Selection |
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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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12/25/2023 5:32 pm |
Chopin - Polonaise-Fantaisie, op. 61 |
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| Pianist Maria João Pires performs the Polonaise-fantasy in A-flat major, Op 61 by the famous conductor, Frédéric Chopin. Composed in 1846, the piece is dedicated to a friend of the composer. | |||||