Schedules
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05/31/2024 4:00 pm |
Lucerne Festival 2004: Pollini Plays Beethoven |
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| Maurizio Pollini and the Lucerne Festival play under the baton of maestro Claudio Abbado. At the yearly Lucerne Festival in Switzerland they perform the beautiful Piano Concerto No 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven. This Piano Concerto was composed between 1805 and 1806 and Beethoven himself played the solo when the concerto premiered in December 1808. | |||||
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05/31/2024 4:36 pm |
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez |
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| Juan Manuel Cañizares is the soloist in a performance of Joaquín Rodrigo's `Concierto de Aranjuez'. He is accompanied by the Berliner Philharmoniker led by conductor Sir Simon Rattle. | |||||
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05/31/2024 5:01 pm |
Haydn |
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| It's New Year's Day 1791 and Joseph Haydn is visiting London for the first time in his life. It is in the British capital where Haydn witnesses several performances of Handel oratorios. This inspires him to give his musical vision of God's creation. | |||||
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05/31/2024 6:45 pm |
CMIM Voice 2022 |
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| Baritone Michael Lafferty performs `Greeting' from Edvard Grieg's `Six Songs, Op 48', `Chera mï vstretilis' from Sergei Rachmaninoff's `15 Romances, Op 26', and `Ae Fond Kiss' from Healey Willan's `Songs of the British Isles'. | |||||
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05/31/2024 7:08 pm |
Summertime at the Domaine Forget |
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| Introducing internationally renowned treasure: the Domaine Forget festival in Saint-Irénée, Québec. Domaine Forget is one of Canada's leading music academies and hosts this annual festival to promote music and dance. Every summer, 500 music students from around the world gather for an intensive course programme featuring masterclasses, individual lessons, chamber music sessions, lectures and special workshops. | |||||
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05/31/2024 7:23 pm |
Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 5 KV. 283 |
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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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05/31/2024 7:37 pm |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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05/31/2024 8:05 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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05/31/2024 9:33 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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05/31/2024 10:24 pm |
My Heart Is Burning |
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| René Pape sings and plays various roles that showcase the impressive versatility of his voice and the many facets of his personality. | |||||
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05/31/2024 11:07 pm |
Villa-Lobos |
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| Quarteto Radamés Gnattali performs Heitor Villa-Lobos's String Quartet No 2 at the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The ensemble was founded in 2006 and consists of Carla Rincón and Francisco Roa. | |||||
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05/31/2024 11:33 pm |
Britten |
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| Marin Alsop conducts the Britten-Pears Orchestra in a performance of Benjamin Britten's `The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'. This performance took place at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Bridge in the UK in 2017. | |||||
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06/01/2024 12:04 am |
The Morricone Duel |
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| An exclusive live concert production presents a mixture of the wild wild west with the soulful sound of Italy. | |||||
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06/01/2024 1:16 am |
Bruckner |
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| Bruckner's Fifth Symphony has been called `the Medieval' because of its multi-layered, Baroque, contrapuntal tonal textures and `the Catholic' because of its solemn majesty. These designations are uniquely fitting to the work. Bruckner himself called it his `Fantastic', especially when it is performed at the Monastery of St Florian, as on this recording. It is not without reason that Bruckner also called the Fifth his contrapuntal masterpiece. | |||||
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06/01/2024 2:34 am |
Celebrate St. Patrick 2020 |
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| A joyous mixture of secular and sacred music, combined with readings from St Patrick's own words. The breathtaking music comes from sites of spiritual and historical importance, including his first church and grave. | |||||
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06/01/2024 3:24 am |
Beethoven |
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| 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. 30, Op. 109. | |||||
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06/01/2024 3:43 am |
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 77 |
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| Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No 1 in A-minor, Op 77. Soloist is violinist Fumiaki Miura. | |||||
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06/01/2024 4:27 am |
Britten |
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| Paul McCreesh conducts the Orquesta Gulbenkian and Coro Infantil da Academia de Música de Santa Cecília in a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Op 66. | |||||
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06/01/2024 6:00 am |
Franz Liszt Competition 2017 - Semi Final I |
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| Yonghwan Jeong (1991, South Korea) performs Poetic and Religious Harmonies, No. 7 Funeral, S173/7 and Paganini's Great Studies, S141 during semi-final I of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 2017. | |||||
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06/01/2024 6:38 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||
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06/01/2024 7:00 am |
Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor |
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| Speranza Scappucci leads the Philharmonia Zürich and the Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich in a performance of Gaetano Donizetti's opera `Lucia di Lammermoor'. The work tells the story of Lucia as she falls in love with Edgardo, her family's enemy. | |||||
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06/01/2024 9:16 am |
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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06/01/2024 9:32 am |
Classica Spotlight |
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| Cinematic classical clips and energising concert pieces featuring a range of artists. | |||||