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    10/15/2024 5:00 pm

    Lucerne Festival 2004: Pollini Plays Beethoven

    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.

    10/15/2024 5:36 pm

    Bach

    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.

    10/15/2024 5:56 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.

    10/15/2024 6:59 pm

    CMIM Voice 2022

    Baritone Bryan Murray (USA, 1989) performs Henri Duparc's Phidylé; 'In der Fremde', 'Intermezzo', 'Waldesgespräch', 'Die Stille', and 'Mondnacht' from Robert Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 39; 'Requiescat' from Matthew Emery's Three Songs; and 'Chanson Romanesque', 'Chanson épique', and 'Chanson à boire' from Maurice Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, during the semi-finals of the Art Song division of the Concours musical international de Montréal 2022 (CMIM).

    10/15/2024 7:29 pm

    Discovering Masterpieces

    Excerpts of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos' are performed by the Freiburger Barockorchester, under the baton of Gottfried von der Goltz.

    10/15/2024 7:58 pm

    PIAM

    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.

    10/15/2024 8:33 pm

    Classica Spotlight

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

    10/15/2024 9:01 pm

    Mahler

    Jean Paul's novel `Titan', in which an artistically gifted young man, driven by his failure to find his way in society, eventually commits suicide in despair, inspired Gustav Mahler to compose his `Symphony No. 1'. The work did not come easily to Mahler: he composed it between 1887 and 1888 when he, in his twenties, was working as a conductor at the Oper Leipzig. The first version of the work was considered as a symphonic poem in two parts, as its titles told a specific musical story.

    10/15/2024 10:01 pm

    Piano Duets - Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninoff a. o

    Russian pianists Nikolay Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko join forces in a program for two pianos comprising works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Anton Arensky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Nikolai Kapustin.

    10/15/2024 11:30 pm

    England, My England: I

    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.

    10/15/2024 11:50 pm

    Liszt : Due Poemi Sinfonici

    The pianist duo Macro Sollini and Salvatore Barbatano perform several compositions by Franz Liszt. This performance was given in the Church of San Marco, in the heart of the village of Ponzano di Fermo in the Marche region, Italy.

    10/16/2024 12:18 am

    Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

    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.

    10/16/2024 12:45 am

    Classica Spotlight

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

    10/16/2024 1:02 am

    Josquin: Missa L'homme Armé Sexti Toni

    Josquin des Prez used the same melody twice to compose masses. Lionel Meunier, Marco Mencoboni and Katharina Bäuml perform the second of these compositions: `L'homme armé sexti toni'.

    10/16/2024 2:10 am

    Barenboim: 50 Years on Stage

    On 19 August 2000, the Teatro Colón was filled to the brim with spectators longing to hear Daniel Barenboim play the piano. Barenboim, who is currently best known as a conductor, started his career half a century ago.

    10/16/2024 4:09 am

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55

    Maestro Herbert Blomstedt makes his debut with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra at 2020's Lucerne Festival conducting Ludwig van Beethoven's celebrated Symphony No 3 in E-flat major, Op 55, Eroica.

    10/16/2024 5:02 am

    A Mozart Celebration From Berlin

    Performed in the grandeur of Berlin's foremost opera house, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the `Mozart Celebration' is dedicated to the life's work of the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

    10/16/2024 6:34 am

    Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach probably wrote this set of six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord during his time as chapel master in Köthen. Presumably, he wrote these sonatas for Prince Leopold and later adapted them for further use in Leipzig.

    10/16/2024 6:47 am

    Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano - IV

    A look at the composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist Heitor Villa-Lobos, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1887. Featuring a performance of his piece, `Music for Cello and Piano IV'.

    10/16/2024 7:13 am

    Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40

    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.

    10/16/2024 7:40 am

    Classica Spotlight

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

    10/16/2024 8:00 am

    Clash of the Soloists

    Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo have finally found common ground between classical music and professional wrestling. Clementi had to contend with Mozart's ingenuity, Beethoven blew Steinbelt out of Vienna, and Handel sparred Scarlatti in a joust of fingers.

    10/16/2024 8:36 am

    My Heart Is Burning

    René Pape sings and plays various roles that showcase the impressive versatility of his voice and the many facets of his personality.

    10/16/2024 9:21 am

    PIAM

    South Korean pianist Su Yeon Kim performs works by the composers Frédéric Chopin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a recital recorded at the Teatro EDI Barrio's in Milan in January 2020.

    10/16/2024 9:52 am

    Classical: Next 2019

    The Kathleen Tagg and Andre Petersen piano duo brings together two of South Africa's most celebrated pianists: one eclectic-experimental classical and one jazz artist, in a unique and highly personal collaboration.

    10/16/2024 10:27 am

    Villa-Lobos

    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.

    10/16/2024 11:00 am

    Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride

    A four-act tragic opera by German-born composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Written for the French stage, the work's premiere in 1779 at the Parisian Royal Academy of Music was a great success.

    10/16/2024 12:50 pm

    Festive Mozart Concert from Salzburg

    Recorded on 27 January 2006 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 250th birthday - in the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg during the Salzburg Mozart Week. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.

    10/16/2024 2:40 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.

    10/16/2024 3:34 pm

    Tchaikovsky

    Every year, the European Concert is hosted by the Berlin Philharmonic in a famous concert hall or on a special location. The 1993 concert was performed at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall in London, which the Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink starts with Tchaikovsky's `Fantasy Overture' from Roméo et Juliette.

    10/16/2024 3:56 pm

    Bach - Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82

    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.

    10/16/2024 4:20 pm

    Schumann - Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

    Schwartz presents Schumann's Symphonic Etudes, Op 13. Composed between 1834-37, the work began as a theme and a set of sixteen variations. The theme had been composed by Baron von Fricken, an amateur musician and father of Ernestine von Fricken.

    Stingray Classica

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

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