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Ever so young, but already the winner of multiple prizes: Cristiano Gaudio is a harpsichord player to keep an eye on over the coming years. Here, he performs a harpsichord recital of toccatas and sonatas by Alessandro Scarlatti and Francesco Durante, the primo maestroof the Conservatorio dei Pove...

Filippotto and Antonello da Caserta were the first Neapolitan composers whose music was preserved.

Minsoo Hong interprets variations of motifs by J.S. Bach during semi-final I (transcription) of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017.

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 proceeded his piano studies at the...

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 ...

In 1842, his `chamber music year', Robert Schumann composed no less than five great pieces: three string quartets, one piano quintet and one piano quartet. Apart from a single piano quartet, Schumann had never written chamber music before. Because of the small set-up, the quartet has an intimate ...

The city of Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace influenced his peripatetic life. He hated the city and despised working for the Archbishop of Salzburg as a servant, a musical servant writing only for the pleasure of the Archbishop.

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).

Directed by Hans Hulscher. Recorded in 2006 at the Musikverein, Vienna.

Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis leads his ensemble MusicAeterna alongside Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja in a performance showcasing young, accomplished and energetic musicians. For this concert, they went searching for a new definition of the meaning of the word beauty. Th...

Dina Ivanova (1994, Russia) performs `La notte' (S377a) and `Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12', (S379a) during semi-final II (chamber music) of the 11th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, held in TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, in 2017. The competition actively presents, develops, and promotes pian...

The Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Boris Berezovsky are led by conductor Vladimir Verbitsky.

Philippe Jaroussky sings Bach and Telemann in a portrait of a very special vocalist, and of two exceptional composers.

Bernard Haitink conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra for the Easter Concert in Baden-Baden, Germany. Performing Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major Pastoral with violinist Isabelle Faust.

Mozart's `Le nozze di Figaro' asks basic questions about the relationships of men and women, the aristocracy and their servants, and is, to this day, the most mature and genuine human operatic composition ever written. With sublimely beautiful music that supports, intensifies, and enhances the dr...

Conrad van Alphen conducts Sinfonia Rotterdam in a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns' (1835-1921) Symphony No. 3, Op. 78. Soloist Geert Bierling plays the organ of concert hall De Doelen. Recorded on 20 October 2018 in Rotterdam.

The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres on the European continent, is the home of the Berlin Philharmonic's summer concerts. With over 22.000 in attendance, they are some of the most popular classical music concerts in the world. Here, Camille Saint-Saëns' `Intro ...

Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, 'Pastorale', is a text book example of programme music: Beethoven cleverly sketches the peace and quiet of the country life. Performers: Claudio Abbado & Berlin Philharmonic.

The Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his fifth symphony in 1888. It was first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on November 17 with Tchaikovsky himself as the conductor.

Louis Langrée conducts the Metropolitan Opera in a performance of Bizet's masterpiece of the gypsy seductress, who lives by her own rules, no matter the cost. The opera's melodic sweep is as irresistible as the title character herself, a force of nature who has become a defining cultural figure. ...

French-Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón is accompanied by the Südwestdeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Konstanz, performing a colourful recital from the Berliner Philharmonie in 2006.

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

Alexander Ullman performs Wagner/Liszt - Isoldens Liebestod: Schlußszene aus Tristan und Isolde, S447 and Beethoven/Liszt - Symphony No. 1 in C major.