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Béla Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta – 1st Movement
Béla Bartók’s “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta” was written in 1936 for conductor Paul Sacher. The piece consists of four movements: Andante tranquillo, Allegro, Adagio, and Allegro molto. Bartók…
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Bedrich Smetana – Die Moldau, 2 of 2 – Played by Brasilia Symphony Orchestra
B Smetana’s Die Moldau, Ira Levin….
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Mendelssohn – Reformation Symphony, 1st Movement, 1 of 4
In 2009, Ira Levin conducted the Orquestra Sinfonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro in Brasilia, performing Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. The symphony’s first movement includes the Dresden amen, a sequence of…
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Manon Lescaut – Full Opera by Giacomo Puccini (1980)
Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini, performed by Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by James Levine.
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Classical Clips Top 10: Classical Music for Kids
…resources to help you teach children about classical music, the best-selling A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra by Robert Levine (sponsored) is a fabulous option for the elementary ages. If…
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Liszt – Totentanz on Dies Irae
Liszt – Dance of Death…
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Dies Irae from Verdi’s Messa da Requiem
Verdi’s Requiem performed by Mariss Jansons and the Berliner Philharmoniker….
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Verdi – Requiem Dies Irae – Part 1
Rare footage of Maestro Ino Savini rehearsing Verdi’s Requiem in Prague in 1972. The performance took place at The Cathedral of St. Vitus on September 9th and was a great…
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John Williams
…world. He served as the Boston Pops Orchestra’s principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. He has also conducted the London Symphony and the Los Angeles…
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Flop or Masterpiece? Ten Classical Works That Made a Comeback
…due to inadequate rehearsal time and the interference of the other conductor, Albert Coates. Elgar’s wife was particularly critical of Coates, calling him a “brutal, selfish, ill-mannered bounder.” The lack…
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America’s First Orchestra
…but it was a successful one. The new orchestra kept giving concerts, and people kept coming. Over the decades, musicians and conductors came and went. The self-managing cooperative gave way…
