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    02/02/2024 6:00 pm

    Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 8, KV 246

    The young lady for whom Mozart wrote Piano Concerto No. 8, was not a very accomplished performer, but in all its simplicity, this concerto is seldom short of sublime. Soloist Christian Zacharias performs Mozart's Piano Concerto.

    02/02/2024 6:26 pm

    Vocal Baroque Works by Cavalli, Strozzi & Bembo

    Argentinian conductor and harpsichordist Leonardo García Alarcón leads his ensemble Cappella Mediterranea in a program of Italian Baroque music. Argentinian soprano Mariana Flores presents the vocal works.

    02/02/2024 7:40 pm

    CMIM Piano 2021

    Chaeyoung Park performs works by Haydn, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff during the semi-finals of the 2021 piano edition of the Concours Musical International de Montréal.

    02/02/2024 8:23 pm

    Music In The Air

    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.

    02/02/2024 9:22 pm

    Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, S.124

    Dazzling, virtuosic, and spectacular: no other adjectives are better suited to describe the piano music of Franz Liszt. Enjoy a sparkling performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major.

    02/02/2024 9:44 pm

    Classica Spotlight

    Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

    02/02/2024 10:02 pm

    Bruckner

    Considered by Bruckner as the artistic climax of his career, the Symphony No 8 followed in the wake of the triumphs celebrated by his 7th Symphony and Te Deum. However, the conductor put aside the original version of the work - which Franz Welser-Möst conducts here - when his friend the conductor Hermann Levi rejected it. The original version was first performed in 1954 and first published in 1972. Recorded live at Cleveland's Severance Hall with The Cleveland Orchestra.

    02/02/2024 11:38 pm

    Roberto Giordano Plays Brahms and Beethoven

    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.

    02/03/2024 12:41 am

    Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - VI

    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.

    02/03/2024 1:07 am

    Brahms

    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.

    02/03/2024 1:28 am

    Brahms

    Manfred Honeck conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms' Tragic Overture, Op 81 during the Easter concert in Baden-Baden in south-western Germany in the spring of 2016.

    02/03/2024 1:43 am

    Classica Spotlight

    Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

    02/03/2024 2:02 am

    Big Nightmare Music

    Russian violinist, conductor and composer Aleksey Igudesman and British-Korean pianist and composer Hyung-ki Joo started their dynamic duo in 2004, when they created their show `A Little Nightmare Music', a humorous take on Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

    02/03/2024 3:12 am

    Handel

    The Messiah (HWV 56) by Georg Frederich Handel, also known as A New Sacred Oratorio, tells the life and suffering of Christ: a story of passion, fire, and sacrifice. This is one of Handel's best-known works, which took only three weeks to compose.

    02/03/2024 4:39 am

    Piano works by Bach, Chopin & Liszt

    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.

    02/03/2024 5:45 am

    Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 21 - III

    Julijana Sarac performs the third movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's `Piano Sonata No 21'. The work was completed in 1804 and is considered one of Beethoven's most technically challenging piano sonatas.

    02/03/2024 6:00 am

    Bizet - L'Arlésienne Suite

    Mikhail Pletnev leads the Russian National Orchestra in a performance of Maurice Ravel's `Piano Concerto No 1' with Lucas Debargue as the soloist. The concert opens with a selection of music by Georges.

    02/03/2024 6:28 am

    Jansons Conducts Stravinsky, Hummel & Beethoven

    Celebrating his 75th birthday with a programme of Stravinsky, Hummel and Beethoven, Mariss Jansons exudes joy and sovereignty, as written by Süddeutsche Zeitung.

    02/03/2024 8:00 am

    Franz Liszt Competition 2017 - Semi Final I

    Sergey Belyavskiy (1993, Russia) performs Rapsodie hongroise No. 9 'Carnival in Pest', S244/9 and Grandes Études de Paganini, S141 during semi-final of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017.

    02/03/2024 8:35 am

    Classica Spotlight

    Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

    02/03/2024 9:00 am

    BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019

    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.

    02/03/2024 11:02 am

    Stravinsky

    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.

    02/03/2024 11:18 am

    Bach

    Celebrated German violinist Isabelle Faust performs JS Bach's `Sonata No 3' in C major, a piece that includes an extensive fugue in which Bach employs many contrapuntal techniques.

    02/03/2024 11:42 am

    Classica Spotlight

    Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

    02/03/2024 12:00 pm

    Purcell: King Arthur

    `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'.

    02/03/2024 1:42 pm

    Europakonzert 2007: Berlin

    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.

    02/03/2024 3:25 pm

    Behind the Scenes

    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.

    02/03/2024 4:19 pm

    Brahms

    The Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim and Claudio Abbado star at the Europakonzert 1994 in Meiningen, Germany, performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2. Popularly known as the Emperor Concerto and composed in Vienna between 1809 and 1811, Piano Concerto No. 5 is Beethoven's last completed piano concerto and often performed by star pianists such as Daniel Barenboim.

    02/03/2024 4:59 pm

    Escaich - Trois Motets

    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.

    02/03/2024 5:14 pm

    Beethoven

    Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz was born in Milan in 1986 and completed his studies at the Conservatorio of Milan as a student of acclaimed musicians such as Riccardo Risaliti, Leonardo Leonardi, and Annibale Rebaudengo. He graduated with Honorable Mention and continued his piano studies at the Accademia Pianistica of Imola. Here, he performs Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32, Op. 111.

    02/03/2024 5:41 pm

    Classica Spotlight

    Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists.

    Stingray Classica

    Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 Time zone: (NZST) UTC Country: United States Language: English

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