BRAHMS Symphony No.3: III. Poco Allegretto

MAHLER, Gustav
Symphony #5 in C sharp minor - 4. Adagietto, sehr langsam

Gustav Mahler - Symphony #5 in C sharp minor - 4. Adagietto, sehr langsam

The second movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major — better known as "Air on the G String" — performed on virtual strings, harpsichord, and The Trumpet from Samplemodeling.

J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068, 2. Air - trumpet(2013.11.17)

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ARTIST BIO

The Sydney Consort is one of Australia’s most energetic music ensembles devoted to early music of the 17th and 18th Century. 
Originally consisting of three members the group brings together Australia’s finest musicians and singers to a small chamber orchestra of up to fifteen performers. Formed in 1997 and led by artistic directors Monika and Stan Kornel, the Sydney Consort is an ensemble dedicated to bringing beauty and wisdom of Baroque music to a rapidly growing audience. The ensemble has performed music ranging from the 16th to 18th Century, as well as contemporary Australian music, and with concert themes such as English, French, German and Italian Baroque, Music and Poetry, and the Johann Sebastian Bach concertos. 

In the year 2000, the Sydney Consort celebrated the vocal and instrumental music of Bach, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death with spectacular concerts at the St James’ Church. Frequently, the ensemble invites other well known and talented Australian artists, instrumentalists, and vocalists to further enrich performances and broaden the repertoire. The Sydney Consort performs regularly with Sydney actors and poets as a consequence of an ongoing relationship with the Poets and Writers Society. A concert of 17th Century English music and Shakespearian sonnets was a particularly successful product of this union of arts. 

The ensemble appears regularly on classical radio programs and on Sunday Live ABC Classic FM. From 2004 the group appeared for Musica Viva Australia with concerts in Sydney and NSW (countrywide program), and in June/July 2005 and 2007, the Sydney Consort performed on their European concert tour in Italy, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark and Poland. The ensemble has been invited to return to Europe in 2009 and will perform in Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Prague and Poland

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - Sonata for harpsichord & violin in C minor (Siciliano)

Philippe Jaroussky sings "Lascia ch'io pianga," from Händel's "Rinaldo"

The recording of Jaroussky's Hong Kong concert was broadcast by rthk radio; it will be re-broadcast on May 29th 2014 at 2 o'clock local time, so be sure to tune in! 
http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/index.php?c=radio4

*Lascia ch’io pianga* - (Let me weep my cruel fate)
Georg Friedrich Händel, Rinaldo
Philippe Jaroussky
Almirena’s aria

Lascia ch’io pianga mia cruda sorte
 E che sospiri la libertà!
 Il duol infranga queste ritorte
 de’ miei martiri sol’ per pietà.

Let me weep
 my cruel fate,
 and sigh for liberty.
 May sorrow break these chains
 Of my sufferings, for pity’s sake.

Laß mich mit Tränen mein Los beklagen,
 Ketten zu tragen, welch hartes Geschick!
 Ach, nur im Tode find’ ich Erbarmen,
 er gibt mir Armen die Ruh’ zurück.

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Händel's "Rinaldo"

Serenade Of The Autumm Leaves

Song To The Moon, Rusalka, Antonín Dvořák. Performed live by Olga Vilenskaia on Januari 2015 in Belgium. Together with Frascati Symphonic with conductor Kris Stroobants.

Song To The Moon, Rusalka, Antonín Dvořák

Johann Sebastian Bach - Aria Da Capo,  Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (Fine Classical Music)

Thomas Yu - F. Chopin:  Andante spianato and The Great Polonaise E flat major

Frédéric Chopin wrote his first piano concerto ever in 1830. It was premiered that same year, and published after his next concerto, hence it came to be known as the Piano Concerto no. 2, in F minor, even though it was the first to be composed. Written before Chopin finished his formal education, the piece betrays a certain sophistication in terms of formal development. It features an extremely dominant piano part, with the orchestra leaving all responsibility for musical development to the soloist, thus ignoring the interplay that is the mainstay of an instrumental concerto. 

Piano sextet version. 

Live from the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland.

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Piano: Hamburg Steinway D
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Frederic Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 21 - II. Larghetto

Puccini's most exquisite aria in a quite funky transcription. Crazy romantic :)

O Mio Babbino Caro, Puccini arr. Mikhashoff

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Frederic Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor, op. 21 - II. Larghetto

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