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Glenn Gould Plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Glenn Gould’s 1981 rendition of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations is available on YouTube. The video features the first quarter of the Variations, performed with high-quality audio. The album was released…
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…
The Girl of the Golden West – Full Opera by Puccini

Puccini’s “La fanciulla del west” performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Featuring Anja Kampe as Minnie, Brandon Jovanovich as Dick Johnson, and John Lundgren as Jack Rance….
Prelude from Das Rheingold, Act 1, Part 1 – Wagner

Wagner’s Ring, Solti Conducts….
Richard Wagner – Das Rheingold – Der Ring des Nibelungen – Part 1, Scene 1
Wagner’s Das Rheingold – Act 1, Parts 2-3

Wagner’s Ring, Solti conducts….
Aaron Copland

…a concert by the Polish composer-pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Copland decided to become a composer. He began formal lessons in harmony, theory, and composition with Rubin Goldmark, a renowned teacher…
America’s First Orchestra

…first symphony orchestra in the United States. It was 1842. John Tyler was the president. The initial discovery of gold in California had just been documented earlier in the year….