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The very famous duet Papageno Papagena from Mozart's The Magic flute, by Roth and Le Roi

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.

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano

Schumann – Kreisleriana – Trifonov, Piano

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and a revised version appeared in 1850. In 1839, soon after publishing it,

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka – Sokolov, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrouchka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky is very explicit in stating that …

Anne-Sophie Mutter is playing Mozart's Violin Concerto No 5 in A major

CLASSICAL MUSIC / Concerto / Violin

Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish – Anne-Sophie Mutter

The Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219, often referred to by the nickname The Turkish, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775, premiering during the Christmas season that year in Salzburg.

BAROQUE MUSIQUE / Piano / Prelude / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Bach / Siloti – Prelude in B minor – Sokolov, Piano

Alexander Siloti made an arrangement of Bach’s prelude in E-minor from The Well Tempered Clavier, first book, transposing it to B minor.

The violinist Chloe Chua and the guitarist Kevin Loh perform the second part, Cafe 1930, from Piazolla's Histoire du Tango

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Guitar / Tango / Violin

Piazolla – Histoire du Tango – 2. Cafe, 1930 – Loh, Guitar; Chua, Violin

Histoire du Tango is one of the most famous compositions by tango composer Ástor Piazzolla, originally written for flute and guitar in 1986. It is often played with different combinations.

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.

Piano

Marx Brothers- Chico and Harpo Piano Duet (The Big Store)

From the movie “The Big Store”, Chico and Harpo play in piano duet “Mamãe Eu Quero” (Mom, I want it), a very famous Brazilian song composed in 1937 by Vicente Paiva and Jararaca.

Symphony / CLASSICAL MUSIC

Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor – Line Riders

More than 100 000 000 (100 Million) views on Youtube for this wonderful animation on Beethoven’s 5th. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.