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The guitarist Julian Bream and John Williams play The Spanish Dance from Manuel de Falla's opera, La Vida Breve
ROMANTIC MUSIC / Dance / Duet / Guitar / Opera

Falla – La Vida Breve, Spanish Dance – Bream & Williams, Guitar

La vida breve (Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla. It was written between August 1904 and March 1905, but not produced until 1913.

Rameau - Les Tendres Plaintes - Sokolov, Piano
BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Opera / Piano / Suite

Rameau – Les Tendres Plaintes – Sokolov, Piano

Les Tendres Plaintes from the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is the first piece from his Suite in D major, RCT 3 (Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1706). Rameau will make a …

Rameau - Les Cyclopes - Sokolov, Piano
BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Opera / Piano / Suite

Rameau – Les Cyclopes – Sokolov, Piano

Les Cyclopes from the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau is the eighth piece from his Suite in D major, RCT 3 (Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin, 1706). The subject of …

Rameau - Les sauvages - Sokolov, Piano
BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Opera / Piano / Suite

Les Sauvages (Rameau) – Sokolov, Piano – Happy Note!

Later used as the fourth and last entrée from Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies), Les Sauvages from Jean-Philippe Rameau is the sixth piece from his Suite in G major/G minor for harpsichord (Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin).

Ferruccio Furlanetto sings Mozart's aria Madamina, il catalogo è questo, from Don Giovanni Act I
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Aria / Opera

Mozart – Don Giovanni – Il catalogo – Furlanetto, Bass

Madamina, il catalogo è questo (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous and popular arias.

The very famous duet Papageno Papagena from Mozart's The Magic flute, by Roth and Le Roi
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Duet / Opera

Mozart – The Magic Flute – Papageno, Papagena – Roth, Le Roi

Papageno, Papagena is a very famous duet from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s masterpiece, The Magic Flute,  an opera in two acts. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue.

Nicolas Rivenq and Patricia Petibon sing the rondo from Les Sauvages, the fouth and last entrée from the french opera-ballet, Les Indes Galantes, composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau
BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Dance / Opera

Rameau – Les Sauvages – Rivenq, Baryton ; Petibon, Soprano

Les Sauvages (The Savages) is the fourth and last entrée from Les Indes galantes (The Amorous Indies), an Opéra-ballet with a prologue and initially two entrées written by the French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, James Levine, Mikhail Pletnev, and Staffan Scheja play Wagner's Ride of the Walkyries with 8 pianos
ROMANTIC MUSIC / Opera / Piano

Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries – 8 piano

This is a crazy version with 8 pianos and big classical music stars (Levine, Lang Lang, Kissin…) of The Ride of the Valkyries, the so famous beginning of Die Walküre Act III.

Maria Callas is singing Puccini's famous aria "O Mio Babbino Caro"
ROMANTIC MUSIC / Aria / Opera / Piano

Puccini – O Mio Babbino Caro – Maria Callas

O mio babbino caro (Oh my dear papa) is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.

Christine Schäfer sings l'aria L'ho perduta opening Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro IV act
CLASSICAL MUSIC / Aria / Opera

Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro – L’ho perduta… – Schäfer, Soprano

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The aria: L’ho perduta, me meschina (I lost it, poor me) opens the act IV.

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Happy Birthday to You!

8 mice wish you a Happy Birthday!
But one needs more practice!

Tom, Jerry and Franz Liszt

Tom is playing Liszt's Second Rhapsody, but Jerry is sleeping inside the piano!

The Great Dictator

The very famous scene with Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5.

Für Elise by Lang Lang

Do you know the full version?

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther is absolutely determined to conduct Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Borg & Hambro play Chopin

2 grand pianos and 1 bench to play
Chopin's famous Minute Waltz

The Carnival of the Animals

Yo-Yo and flamingos: the music
of Saint-Saëns illustrated by Walt Disney

The Hollywood Bowl

Jerry wants to conduct Johann Strauss II too!

Pigs in a Polka

The Three Little Pigs story
set to Brahms’ Hungarian Dances

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