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 …
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Chopin – Etude Op. 10, No. 1 in C major – Ashkenazy, Piano
Chopin’s Etude Op. 10, No. 1 in C major for solo piano was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1829. It was first published in 1833 in France, Germany, and England …
Gluck / Sgambati – Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Wang, Piano
Dance of the Blessed Spirits is a melody from Orpheus and Eurydice, an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, based on the myth of Orpheus and set to a libretto …
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata, 1st movement, harp guitar – Brin Addison
Brin Addison is playing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, on a Hubert Heerbeck 1940’s Schrammel-gitarre, also known …
Beethoven – Mancini – Pink, Plunk, Plink
The Symphony No. 5 in C minor composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written between 1804 and 1808. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work …
Mickey – The Opry House (1929) – Rachmaninov, Liszt
The Opry House was the fifth Mickey Mouse cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions and introduced Mickey’s gloves. You can listen some theme from Rachmaninov’s famous C-sharp minor prelude and …
Villa-Lobos – Etude No. 1 in E minor – Segovia, Guitar
Villa-Lobos etude No. 1 in E minor for guitar is an arpeggio study focusing on right-hand technique, but includes challenging left hand chord patterns. The same right-hand pattern is used …
Bach – Concerto For 4 Pianos – Argerich, Levine, Kissin, Pletnev
Bach made a number of transcriptions of Antonio Vivaldi‘s concertos, especially from his Op. 3 set, entitled L’estro armonico. Bach adapted them for solo harpsichord and solo organ, but for the …
Mozart – Piano concerto No 19 – Maurizio Pollini, Karl Böhm
The Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, KV 459 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written at the end of 1784: Mozart’s own catalogue of works records that it was …
Mozart – Sonata four hands in C major K. 521 – Argerich, Kissin, Piano
Mozart has written only six – or even five, the authenticity of some work has been disputed – sonatas for piano four hands. The sonata K 521 in C Major …