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Chopin – Etude, Op. 10, No. 12
Freddy Kempf, an English pianist born in 1977 in London to a German father and Japanese mother, began playing piano at four. At eight, he performed with the Royal Philharmonic…
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Purcell – Sound the Trumpet
James Bowman, 66, and Andreas Scholl, 40, performed an encore of Purcell’s “Sound the trumpet” at the Royal Festival Hall in June 2008. The duet was part of Purcell’s ode…
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Boris Godunov – Full Opera by Modest Mussorgsky
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…
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Tannhäuser – Full Opera by Wagner – Paris Version
Opera de Monte-Carlo presents Wagner’s “Tannhauser.”…
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Götterdämmerung from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Presented by Vienna State Opera
Wagner Götterdämmerung – Richard Wagner. Adam Fischer/Vienna State Opera, 2016….
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Die Walküre from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Presented by Vienna State Opera
Wagner Die Walküre – Richard Wagner. The Valkyrie. Adam Fischer, Vienna State Opera, 2016….
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Opera North Presents Das Rheingold from Wagner’s Ring Cycle
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…
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
…His works span a wide range of genres, including symphonies, operas, choral music, chamber music, and film scores. Vaughan Williams was deeply influenced by English folk music and the English…
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Beethoven 5th Symphony
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 performed by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim at the Royal Albert Hall in 2012….
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
…service of the future King of Prussia, Frederick II. A music aficionado himself, Frederick had a court orchestra that accompanied him in concert performances almost every night. This royal entourage…
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
…exposed to a diverse array of musical traditions from a young age. His family resided briefly in a quaint cottage at Royal and Esplanade in the Vieux Carré area, and…
