This performance by the Dutch Chamber Choir, conducted from the piano by Reinbert de Leeuw, presents a rare opporunity to hear Liszt’s moving late work. The recording was made at the Church of St. Peter in Utrecht and is rich in visual imagery, using costumed singers positioned in striking tableaux to enhance the music. Inspired by a series of paintings depicting the Stations of the Cross, Liszt’s piety expresses itself in a composition of unadorned simplicity.
Daniel Barenboim: The Complete Schubert Sonatas
Star pianist Daniel Barenboim embarks on a survey of Schubert’s completed piano sonatas. In each of the four recitals in the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Barenboim offers a journey through Schubert’s creative life, from the youthful sonatas of the earlier years to the great masterworks written during his final months. Universally recognized as supreme expressions of the Romantic spirit, these works, ignored after the composer’s death for more than a century, today stand at the centre of the piano repertoire, side by side with the piano works of Beethoven, Schubert’s admired predecessor and contemporary. The press raves about the Maestro’s Schubert interpretation: “Superb Schubert from
an Old Master.” (Bachtrack) “This is Schubert at his most intense. Breathtaking!” (Guardian) // Concert I: 83′; Concert II: 97′; Concert III: 88′; Concert IV: 87′;
Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón – Episode 4
PROGRAM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture from Die Entführung aus dem Serail // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 “Italian” – Saltarello (Presto) // Emmanuel Séjourné: Concerto for Marimba and Strings – 2nd movement (Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez) // Iannis Xenakis: Rebounds b (Soloist: Alexej Gerassimez) // Gaetano Donizetti: “Una furtiva lagrima” from L’elisir d’amore (Soloist: Stefan Pop) // Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Allegro vivace (Soloist: Lise de la Salle) // Franz Liszt: Liebeslied after Robert Schumann (Soloist: Lise de la Salle) // Johannes Matthias Sperger: Contrabass Concerto No. 15 – Adagio (Soloist: Edicson Ruiz) // Heinz Holliger: Preludio (Soloist: Edicson Ruiz) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Il mio tesoro” from Don Giovanni (Soloist: Rolando Villazón)
Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón – Episode 5
PROGRAM: Gioachino Rossini: Overture from Der Barbier von Sevilla // Franz Lehár: „Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß“ from Giuditta (Soloist: Cristina-Antoaneta Pasaroiu) // Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Allegro appassionato (Soloist: Adam Laloum) // Robert Schumann: Träumerei from Kinderszenen (Soloist: Adam Laloum) // Amilcare Ponchielli: “Ombre di mia prosapia” from La Gioconda (Soloist: Kihwan Sim) // Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 – Moderato (Soloist: Ella van Poucke) // Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 – Sarabande (Soloist: Ella van Poucke) // Giuseppe Verdi: In solitaria stanza (Soloist: Adam Laloum) // Gioachino Rossini: Overture from Il barbiere di Siviglia // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Là ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni (Soloists: Cristina-Antoaneta Pasaroiu & Kihwan Sim)
Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazon – Episode 7
PROGRAM: Gioachino Rossini: Overture from Der Barbier von Sevilla // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 – Allegro molto vivace
Soloist: Fanny Clamagirand // Charles Gounod: “Depuis hier…Que fais-tu blanche tourterelle” from Roméo et Juliette (Soloist: Angela Brower) // Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra – 4th movement (sonic.art saxophone quartet) // Michael Nyman: Songs for Tony (sonic.art saxophone quartet) // Vincenzo Bellini: “Qui la voce” from I Puritani (Soloist: Pretty Yende) // Camille Saint-Saëns: Der Schwan from Karneval der Tiere (Soloists: Fanny Clamagirand & Vanya Cohen) // Cole Porter: “So in Love” from Kiss me, Kate (Soloist: Yvonne Gesler) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture from Le nozze di Figaro // Federico Moreno Torroba “¡Cállate corazón!” from Luisa Fernanda (Soloists: Angela Brower & Rolando Villazón)
Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazon – Episode 8
PROGRAM: Gioachino Rossini: Overture from Der Barbier von Sevilla // Gaetano Donizetti: “O luce di quest’anima” from Linda di Chamounix (Soloist: Regula Mühlemann) // Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor – Allegro vivace (Soloist: Sophie Pacini) // Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (Soloist: Sophie Pacini) // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Deh, per questo istante solo” from La clemenza di Tito (Soloist: Valer Barna-Sabadus) // Léo Delibes: Les filles de Cadix (Soloist: Tine Thing Helseth) // Edvard Grieg: Elsk (Love) from Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) (Soloists: Tine Thing Helseth & Sophie Pacini) // Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Soloists: Regula Mühlemann & Sophie Pacini) // Edvard Grieg : In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite // Giuseppe Verdi: “Addio, addio, speranza ed anima” from Rigoletto (Soloists: Regula Mühlemann & Rolando Villazón)
Stars of Tomorrow presented by Rolando Villazón – Episode 2
PROGRAM: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture from Die Entführung aus dem Serail // Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 3 // Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik // Johann Strauß: “Mein Herr Marquis” from Die Fledermaus (Soloist: Chen Reiss) // Franz Liszt: Rigoletto Paraphrase (Soloist: Benyamin Nuss) // Nobuo Uematso: Final Fantasy VI (Soloist: Benyamin Nuss) // Claude Debussy: Danse profane (Soloist: Teresa Zimmermann) // Robert Schumann: Der Nussbaum (Soloists: Chen Reiss & Teresa Zimmermann) // Camille Saint-Saëns: Romance for cello and orchestra (Soloist: Maximilian Hornung) Johann Sebastian Bach: Bourrée I & II
(Soloist: Maximilian Hornung) // Jules Massenet: “Ouvre tes yeux bleus” (Soloists: Rolando Villazón & Benyamin Nuss)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor Op.23
Hailed by the press as “the definitive video production” of Tchaikovsky’s music, this exceptional concert series, recorded live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt, features the leading Russian conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Fedoseyev’s perceptive reading of the works of his fellow countryman, the masterly playing of the orchestra and guest soloists combine to produce performances which are revelatory in their execution and understanding of Tchaikovsky’s music and the Russian heritage.
Mozart Week 2021: Quatuor Van Kuijk
The Quatuor Van Kuijk was founded only 6 years ago and already they have won all the prizes that can be won: the Wigmore Hall International Chamber Music Competition, the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy, they are BBC New Generation Artists… just to name a few. The young Viennese pianist, Maximilian Kromer, joins this exciting ensemble – what emerges is a ravishingly youthful Mozart sound. “accomplished Mozart interpreters on stage” (APA) PROGRAMM Mozart: Divertimento K. 136; Divertimento, K. 137; Piano Quartet, K. 478
Blomstedt conducts Reger and Beethoven
Max Reger’s Piano Concerto was created in the summer of 1910 in Leipzig and was there brought into the world by pianist Frieda Kwast-Hodapp and the Gewandhausorchester under Arthur Nikisch. To date, few other artists have dared to undertake this pianistic challenge: The American Peter Serkin, however, is one of those few whose repertoire includes this rare piece. In the second part of the concert, Herbert Blomstedt approached Beethoven’s evocative impressions of nature in the Symphony No 6, the “Pastoral”. PROGRAM: Reger: Piano Concerto in F minor; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6