Schedules
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05/05/2024 4:00 pm |
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 8, KV 246 |
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| 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. | |||||
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05/05/2024 4:26 pm |
Bach |
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| Johann Sebastian Bach craved a career change in 1721. Wishing to join the court of Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, Bach presented him with six new concertos in the hopes of securing a position. | |||||
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05/05/2024 4:42 pm |
Handel |
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| 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. | |||||
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05/05/2024 6:09 pm |
IVC 2021 |
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| Tenor Ilja Aksionov and pianist Gustas Raudonius perform works by Bart Visman, Gerald Finzi, Henri Duparc, Claude Debussy, Hugo Wolf, Sergei Rachmaninoff or Franz Schubert as part of the IVC 2021 semi-finals. | |||||
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05/05/2024 6:33 pm |
Ginandrea Noseda |
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| Although the great Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi applied unsuccessfully to study at the Milan Conservatory, this renowned college of music was eventually named after him. Today, the 'Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi' counts numerous successful musicians among its alumni: from Giacomo Puccini, Alfredo Catalani, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Luigi Einaudi and Daniele Gatti, to Gianandrea Noseda. | |||||
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05/05/2024 7:09 pm |
Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op.12 |
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| A performance from the 25th anniversary edition of the Verbier Festival, Seong-Jin Cho pays tribute to Debussy on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the French composer's death. | |||||
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05/05/2024 7:35 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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05/05/2024 8:00 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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05/05/2024 8:48 pm |
In Between: Isang Yun in North and South Korea |
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| Exploring whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided country. Highly regarded Korean composer Isang Yun is one of the very few people acknowledged on both sides of Korea. | |||||
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05/05/2024 9:49 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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05/05/2024 10:24 pm |
PIAM |
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| The world renowned pianist Piotr Pawlak performs César Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, as well as Maurice Ravel's Pavane Pour Une Infant Défunte and Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No 4. | |||||
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05/05/2024 11:20 pm |
IVC 2019 |
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| Soprano Erika Baikoff and pianist Gary Beecher perform Franz Schubert's 'Suleika I, Was bedeutet die Bewegung', Op. 14, No. 1 (D. 720); Die Blumensprache, Op. 173, No. 5 (D. 519). | |||||
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05/05/2024 11:50 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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05/06/2024 12:03 am |
Wagner |
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| `Das Rheingold' is the prologue to Wagner's Ring Cycle, and opens up the rich world of gods, dwarves, giants, dragons and humans that the story inhabits. | |||||
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05/06/2024 2:38 am |
Pianomania: Daniil Trifonov - Gulbenkian Orchestra |
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| Daniil Trifonov and the Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu, play 'Cantus Arcticus' op. 61 by Einojuhani Rautavaara, the Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54 by Robert Schumann and the Symphony No. 2 in D major op. 43 by Jean Sibelius. | |||||
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05/06/2024 4:28 am |
Rimsky-Korsakov Suites |
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| In this exquisite 2016 concert from Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Russian National Orchestra and star-pianist Boris Berezovsky are led by conductor Mikhail Pletnev in a performance of magnificent works by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. | |||||
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05/06/2024 5:14 am |
Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op. 16 |
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| Conrad van Alphen conducts Sinfonia Rotterdam, recorded in De Doelen, Rotterdam, in 2018. Alvaro Siviero is the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto No. 1, and closes his performance with 'Dansa do Índio Branco' by Villa-Lobos. | |||||
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05/06/2024 5:50 am |
Heavenly Voices |
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| A look at the Legacy of Farinelli' and following the history of castrato in choral music: male singers who were castrated at a young age in order to preserve their high vocal range. | |||||
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05/06/2024 6:41 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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05/06/2024 7:00 am |
Offenbach |
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| In La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein by Jacques Offenbach, the authors of this comic opera mock the war on France's threshold. The charge against the powers, the army and the nobility is pointed but, to satisfy censorship, it is skilfully camouflaged by the grotesque costumes of an imaginary duchy and by some musical buffoonery of sparkling gaiety. | |||||
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05/06/2024 9:05 am |
Dvorák - Scherzo capriccioso in D♭ major, Op. 66 |
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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 and Mischa Maisky. | |||||
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05/06/2024 9:21 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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05/06/2024 10:00 am |
Verdi |
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| Based on a story by William Shakespeare, the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi wrote the opera Otello. Stage director David Alden created his version of this tragedy for the Teatro Real, in Madrid. Renato Palumbo conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real. The performance also features Gregory Kunde, Ermonela Jaho, and George Petean. Othello, the Venetian governor of Cyprus, returns to the island after a victorious campaign. | |||||
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05/06/2024 12:45 pm |
Boulez conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 2 |
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| The French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez leads the orchestra and choirs of the Berlin State Opera and the orchestra of the Staatskapelle Berlin in a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 2. | |||||
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05/06/2024 2:15 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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05/06/2024 2:36 pm |
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 |
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| Bernard Haitink conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, 2015. On the programme is Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No 6 in F major, Op 68. The composer wrote his Symphony No. 6 between 1802 and 1808. | |||||
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05/06/2024 3:21 pm |
CMIM Voice 2022 |
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| Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff performs `Deh, per questo istante solo' from Mozart's `La clemenza di Tito', `Vois sous l'archet frémissant' from Offenbach's `Les contes d'Hoffmann', and `Una voce poco fa' from Rossini's `Il barbiere di Siviglia'. | |||||
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05/06/2024 3:40 pm |
Chopin |
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| Roberto Prosseda performs Mozart's `Piano Sonata No 5' and `Four Impromptus Op 90' by Franz Schubert. The performance ends with Chopin's technically demanding `Ballade No 4, Op 52'. | |||||