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Pierre Fournier, known as “the aristocrat of cellists,” was a renowned French musician. Born in Paris in 1906, Fournier overcame polio as a child and turned to the cello after…

Boris Godunov, an epic opera based on Pushkin’s play, is notoriously difficult to stage in the West. This version from Bolshoi, featuring Nesterenko as Godunov, is considered one of the…

Wagner Götterdämmerung – Richard Wagner. Adam Fischer/Vienna State Opera, 2016….

Wagner Die Walküre – Richard Wagner. The Valkyrie. Adam Fischer, Vienna State Opera, 2016….

Opera North’s acclaimed concert staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle, filmed in Leeds, UK, in June 2016. The Ring begins with music evoking the dawn of time and takes us through…

Edvard Grieg’s “Suite for Brass” was performed by Per Gade’s International Brass Quintet in Japan in 1982. The recording, found recently on a cassette tape, captures the live concert experience…

Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 performed by Inghelbrecht and the French National Radio Orchestra and Chorus. Read my essay on classical music at http://bokunoongaku.blog39.fc2.com/….

Joseph Haydn composed the German national anthem. It’s part of Haydn’s Kaiser Quartet….

The National Symphony Orchestra performs Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” composed in 1942 as part of a series of patriotic fanfares….

Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs the Radetzky March, composed by Johann Strauss, Sr.

The National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, plays the first movement from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1…