Dietrich Buxtehude is one of the founding fathers of the 17th century German school, whose influence on composers cannot be overestimated. Not only was he an indisputable master of organ music, but also a prolific composer.
A hundred years of Neapolitan music for violin consort and basso continuo: this is the tasty menu Enrico Gatti and his Ensemble Aurora have prepared for your listening pleasure. The flourishing musical life of Naples around 1700 was the breeding ground for many styles and genres. Ensemble Aurora ...
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 s...
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 Honourable Mention and continued his piano studies at t...
In this 2018 concert, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra is lead by Canadian conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin in a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43. Born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec, the charismatic young musician was awarded the role of the 11th ...
Beatrice Rana, piano, plays the 'Flower Piece' op. 19 and the Symphonic Etudes op. 13 by Robert Schumann, 'Miroirs' by Maurice Ravel and the 'Firebird Suite' by Igor Stravinsky.
The life and work of Franz Schubert, born in Vienna in 1797. For a composer of such joyful melody there is a sad side to his story.
Dina Ivanova performs Liszt'sTotentanz, Schubert and Liszt's Auf dem wasser zu singen during the Solo Finals of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition.
The 2017 Prague Spring festival is brought to a powerful close as Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Choir in a performance of his monumental seventh symphony Seven Gates of Jerusalem. This work bears witness to an introspective thought about...
Claudio Abbado conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's `Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125'. The European Concert has been a tradition of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 1991. The musicians commemorate the anniversary of the orchestra's founding on ...
From the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Paavo Järvi conducts. The Eighth Symphony was premiered in 1910 with triumphant success in Munich. Here it received its nickname Symphony of a Thousand because under the baton of the composer 1030 took part.
Piano Concerto No. Three in C minor, Op. 37. Featuring Anton Bruckner, Alfred Brendel, Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado.
Europa-Konzert 2007 took place in Berlin, on the 125th Anniversary of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Philharmonic in a performance of Gustav Mahler's `Symphony Number 9', recorded at Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall, Prague in April 2019.
Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Romantic repertoire, Francesco Attesti 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. In this recording of his 2016 Deeply Mozart concert tour, Attesti ...
The 2007 Europa-Konzert takes place in Berlin, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Under the theme The Year 1882.
Pietro Spagnoli and Tom Randle present Haydn's most successful opera at the Berlin Staatsoper.
The Easter Festival is an internationally renowned event among classical music lovers, traditionally opened in Moscow on Easter Sunday.
Haydn is very famous for his 68 string quartets that he wrote between 1762 and 1803. `Father of the String Quartet' is therefore also a title that describes Haydn as a composer.