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LVB's weirdly underplayed Op.90 sonata in E minor. Here's the second movement played by me. Gentle, bi-polar, inward-looking, darker than it first appears...

Beethoven Piano Sonata OP 90, 2nd movement

Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky

The Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra
February 9, 2014
Reuben Blundell Conductor

Chabrier, Espana, Rhapsody for Orchestra

Royal Ballet’s Director Kevin O'Hare gives the inside track on a national dance scene with a plethora of young talent.

For decades, Britain has undoubtedly been one of the most exciting places to be a dancer and a choreographer. The British style is world-renowned, built on the rich heritage of Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan as well as iconic ballerinas like Margot Fonteyn and Darcey Bussell. But ballet training in Britain today looks forwards as well as backwards. For The Royal Ballet’s Director Kevin O’Hare, ‘British dance is having a renaissance.’

Kevin O'Hare on the UK ballet scene

Tchaikovsky's soul-stirring masterpiece, the Sixth Symphony, is among the greatest landmarks in the symphonic repertoire. The first movement's tender love theme for strings and the scherzo's electrifying march are just two highlights in a work of deep emotion. Scriabin's Second Symphony presents an enticing mix of drama and lyricism that leads to a spectacularly triumphant ending.

CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

In his Tchaikovsky symphonic series, Riccardo Muti reaches perhaps the most lively: Symphony No. 2, with its light-hearted opening, swaggering second movement processional and joyous finale. Beethoven's noble Triple Concerto artfully showcases the lyrical expressiveness of the violin and cello, beautifully played here by CSO members Stephanie Jeong and Kenneth Olsen and pianist Jonathan Biss.

CSO Program Notes: Muti Conducts Beethoven

Charles Dutoit leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program brimming with Gallic charm, color and variety. Canadian pianist Louis Lortie is the soloist in Franck's beguiling Symphonic Variations and D'Indy's delightful Symphony on a French Mountain Air. Bookending these works are two of Ravel's most ravishing scores: the sensuous Rapsodie espagnole and the Second Suite from his ballet, Daphnis et Chloe, with its glorious opening dawn music.

CSO Program Notes: Dutoit Conducts Ravel

Revered cellist and CSO Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma joins Concertmaster Robert Chen for a touching and tender duet in Saint-Saens' La muse et le poete, then returns as soloist in Lalo's noble and lyrical Cello Concerto. In the first half of this program, Charles Dutoit conducts Debussy's otherworldly The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and Ravel's poignant Valses nobles et sentimentales.

CSO Program Notes: Charles Dutoit and Yo-Yo Ma

"Mitsuko Uchida's annual visit to Orchestra Hall rank among the most life-affirming experiences granted to local concertgoers" (Chicago Tribune). The Japanese pianist, renowned for her Mozart interpretations, returns to play and conduct two of Mozart's most beautiful and uplifting concertos. Uchida also accompanies soprano Dorothea Röschmann in a Schumann song cycle, which movingly traces the intimate thoughts of a woman about her beloved.

CSO Program Notes: Uchida Plays Mozart

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a. III. Waltz of the Flowers

I was just practicing tonight and felt like recording one of the pieces.  Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2, or otherwise known as 'Quasi una fantasia' or the 'Moonlight Sonata'.  I recorded this on a Steinway D and mastered it in my mastering studio www.alpinemastering.com  

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Classical Piano Pieces Volume I

Moonlight Sonata

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Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (Glenn playing on a Steinway D)

Livemitschnitt 21.11.2015 aus der Oetkerhalle in Bielefeld
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Markus Poschner, Leitung
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - live 21.11.2015 Markus Poschner, Dirigent

The 2010 Proms season will include another Doctor Who Prom, this time receiving two outings on Saturday 24 July and Sunday 25 July, the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Arthur Darvill (Rory Williams) will host. The initial announcement indicated that the concerts would again feature music from the series, this time alongside pieces by John Adams, Gustav Holst, Karl Orff and Richard Wagner.[1][2] At the conclusion of the Saturday concert, it was announced it had been filmed, for broadcast in August, 2010

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

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Serenade Melancolique - Tchaikovsky

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Tchaikovsky Symphony No  6 In B Minor, Op.  74 (Pathétique) (December 2018)

Soyoung Yoon's debut album, released in 2012, contains recordings of two of most famous works for violin. The violin concerto in d minor, Op 47 of Jean Sibelius and well as Piotr Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in D major, Op 35. 
Th CD-album has been nominated to the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) 2013.

04 Tchaikovsky_ Violin Concerto In D, Op.35 - 1. Allegro Moderato.mp3

Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center, and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore, where it is in residency each summer. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and frequent sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe.

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CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6

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