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    12/20/2024 6:00 pm

    Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 24, KV 491

    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.

    12/20/2024 6:36 pm

    György Ligeti - Concert Românesc

    Barbara Hannigan conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a concert recorded at the Lucerne Festival of 2014. There are pianists who also conduct, and concert masters who lead their orchestra from the violin desk.

    12/20/2024 6:51 pm

    Works for Cello and Piano by Schumann, Chopin a.o

    Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich invites her lifelong music partner, cellist Mischa Maisky, to play chamber music in Geneva. Between the pieces, Martha opens up to her daughter, Annie Dutoit, in an interview about their relationship and the music.

    12/20/2024 7:44 pm

    Graupner: Magnificat anima mea

    Patrick Debrabandere conducts the Vox Mago chamber choir in a performance of Christoph Graupner's (1683-1760) cantata Magnificat anima mea.

    12/20/2024 8:06 pm

    Dance on screen

    The invention of the film camera and television has allowed audiences to experience the artistic intimacy beyond that of beautiful dancing. Exploring how twentieth-century modern media influenced the development of dance, and vice versa.

    12/20/2024 9:05 pm

    PIAM

    Ying Li performs Claude Debussy's `Images, Book I', Frédéric Chopin's `Nocturne in C-sharp minor', and Franz Liszt's `Paraphrase' from Verdi's `Rigoletto' at the Teatro EDI Barrio's in Milan.

    12/20/2024 9:36 pm

    Classica Spotlight

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

    12/20/2024 10:03 pm

    Bruckner

    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.

    12/20/2024 11:21 pm

    Monteverdi - Madrigals, Book III

    British tenor Paul Agnew Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants in the madrigals of `Book III'. Published in 1592, the book contains twenty madrigals for five voices. This performance was recorded at the Cité de la musique in Paris, France in 2012.

    12/21/2024 12:30 am

    Brazilian Music for Cello and Piano

    A look at the life and work of the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, taking the viewer on a journey through the the experiences of a legend of the classical music scene in Brazil.

    12/21/2024 12:58 am

    Christmas Concert

    On 18 December 2017, the Valerius Ensemble played a Christmas concert in Concordia, Enschede. The ensemble consists of Robert Windak (violin), Annemarie van Vliegen (violin), Eva Šušliková (viola) and Réne Geesing (cello).

    12/21/2024 1:28 am

    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.

    12/21/2024 1:44 am

    Classica Spotlight

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

    12/21/2024 2:00 am

    Rogério Tutti in Concert

    Rogerio Tutti and his orchestra perform a mix of famous pop, jazz, and classical tunes, from Russian melodies by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff to warm Latin sounds by South American composers.

    12/21/2024 3:27 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.

    12/21/2024 4:20 am

    Rachmaninoff

    The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz won his first praise on his interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto from the composer himself. When Rachmaninoff heard the young Kiev-born pianist play his work shortly after Horowitz's arrival in New York in 1928, he exclaimed - "he swallowed it whole". Fifty years later, on 24 September 1978, Horowitz electrified his audience once again with this monumental work.

    12/21/2024 5:14 am

    Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488

    Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Romantic repertoire, Francesco Attesti (*1975) gave his first recital at age 11 and by the time he was 23, had earned the highest honours in piano from Florence's Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini.

    12/21/2024 5:42 am

    Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

    Elusive, eccentric, wilful and capricious are some of the milder words used to describe Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004), the man widely considered the most venerated conductor since Arturo Toscanini.

    12/21/2024 6:23 am

    Liszt's 1st Piano Concerto & Mahler's 7th Symphony

    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 by the incredible piano virtuoso Russian.

    12/21/2024 8:18 am

    Liszt Competition 2017 - Semi Final Transcriptions

    Italian Pianist Michelle Candotti performs Liszt's Ballade No 2, Verdi/Liszt's Don Carlos - `Coro di Festa e Marcia Funèbre', and Verdi/Liszt, `Ernani - Paraphrase de Concert' during the semi finals of the International Liszt.

    12/21/2024 8:47 am

    Classica Spotlight

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

    12/21/2024 9:00 am

    Fantasymphony - One Concert to Rule them all

    Featuring film music hits from multiple Oscar-winning movies such as The Lord of the Ring, Game of Thrones, The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter. Concert orchestration based on the original arrangements and instruments of the film scores.

    12/21/2024 10:41 am

    Martinu - Concertino for Piano Trio and Strings

    Italian-Swiss ensemble Trio des Alpes team up with Orchestra da Camera di Mantova to perform Bohuslav Martinu's `Concertino for Three Pianos and String Orchestra, H 232'. Recorded at Teatro Bibiena in Mantua, Italy, on 21 January 2016.

    12/21/2024 11:02 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.

    12/21/2024 11:30 am

    Liszt/Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture S.442

    Mengjie Han performs Franz Liszt's transcription of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture, S 442 during the quarter finals of the Liszt Piano Competition 2014. Han studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Marlies van Gent.

    12/21/2024 11:47 am

    Classica Spotlight

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

    12/21/2024 12:00 pm

    Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi

    From the San Francisco Opera - I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835). Conductor - Riccardo Frizza: Stage director - Vincent Boussard.

    12/21/2024 2:18 pm

    Europa Konzert

    Europakonzert 2004 was held in Athens, Greece. This concert featured the Berliner Philharmoniker performing live at the ancient Herodes Atticus Theatre along with an interesting combination of conductor and soloist: Sir Simon Rattle wielding the baton as pianist Daniel Barenboim plays Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 and Arnold Schoenberg's arrangement of Brahms' Piano Quartet No 1.

    12/21/2024 4:00 pm

    Heitor Villa-Lobos Music for Cello and Piano: V

    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'.

    12/21/2024 4:24 pm

    Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53

    For the 2016 edition of the Waldbühne, the Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Québécois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin join the Berliner Philharmoniker for a beautiful concert.

    12/21/2024 4:58 pm

    IVC 2021

    Soprano Sara Gouzy and pianist Seri Dan perform various works by Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Olivier Messiaen, Sergueï Rachmaninov, Francis Poulenc, Bart Visman or Hugo Wolf as part of the semi-finals of the 2021 edition of the IVC.

    12/21/2024 5:25 pm

    Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, S.125

    Alexander Ullman performs Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 (S125) during the final of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht 2017.

    Stingray Classica

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

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