Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven: Triple Concert


Three classical music giants, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth by recording the Triple Concerto. Pairing the Concerto with the Seventh Symphony, the album also marks the 20th birthday of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The Triple Concerto has a special place in Beethoven’s oeuvre, revealing his revolutionary spirit and ingrained humour both in its sophisticated architecture and in its musical idiom. Ever inventive, creative and original, here Beethoven stages a lavish musical feast over-flowing with melody, a feast. Yo-Yo Ma puts it in these words: “For me, in the Triple Concerto, it’s the constant invention that always takes me by surprise. You know what I love about the piece? It’s so celebratory, so positive.” Performed by three of today’s most renowned classical artists and Beethoven interpreters – Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yo-Yo Ma and Daniel Barenboim and accompanied by the acclaimed West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Watch them perform Beethoven's Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56, No.2 Largo – Attacca, Live at Philharmonie, Berlin (2019). Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma – Beethoven: Triple Concerto C Major, Op. 56, No. 2

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Overture to "Iphigenie in Aulis" by Christoph Willibald Gluck


Overture to "Iphigenie in Aulis" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, performed by the DeKalb Symphony Orchestra June 20, 2017.

"Festive Overture" by Dmitri Shostakovich

Beethoven - Romance for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50


From the Church of St. Nicolai, Leipzig, Germany 20 Years Peaceful Revolution - Leipzig commemorates the 9th of October 1989 Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Soloist: Renaud Capuçon Conductor: Kurt Masur Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50 Watch the full concert here:    • Kurt Masur and the Gewandhausorcheste...   On 9 October 1989, 70,000 people staged a non-violent demonstration calling for more freedom and democracy in the GDR. Thanks to the claim “Peaceful Revolution”, initiated by Kurt Masur as one of six prominent citizens of Leipzig, everything proceeded peacefully. That evening, the Gewandhausorchester played under his baton Brahms’ Second Symphony at the St. Nicolas Church. The following regular "Monday Demonstrations", which came to be described as the “Peaceful Revolution”, became a major milestone on the way to open the Berlin Wall one month later on November the 9th in 1989 and paving the foundations for the reunification of the two German states. Exactly 20 years later, the Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur commemorate the beginning of the German reunification by presenting the same symphony at the same location.

MOZART | Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat K. 595


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) | Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat K. 595 Aris Alexander Blettenberg - piano Klangkollektiv Wien Rémy Ballot - conductor MUSIK MERAN 12.10.2023 - Kursaal, Meran (I) 00:00 Allegro 14:37 Larghetto 22:40 Ronde. Allegro

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