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If you think that Classical Music is boring, listen to this

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Piece Name: Liszt's Trascendental Etude no 8 "Wilde Jadg" Pianist Name: Yunchan Lim

Vienna Opera Ball 2024 - Full performance

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4,745 views Feb 18, 2024 The "Wiener Opern Ball 2024", broadcast on 2/8/2024 on ORF2, the Austrian national public broadcasting channel.

The Best of Haydn

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THE BEST OF HAYDN 1. Symphony no. 45 in F# min (Farewell) - I. Allegro Assai 2. Symphony no. 45 in F# min (Farewell) - II. Adagio 5:51 3. Symphony no. 45 in F# min (Farewell) - III. Minuetto 14:34 4. Symphony no. 45 in F# min (Farewell) - IV. Finale 18:40 5. Symphony no. 46 in B major - I. Vivace 26:21 6. Symphony no. 46 in B major - II. Poco Adagio 35:12 7. Symphony no. 46 in B major - III. Allegretto 40:59 8. Symphony no. 46 in B major - IV. Presto e scherzando 43:54 9. Symphony no. 48 in C major (Maria Theresia) - I. Allegro 48:13 10. Symphony no. 48 in C major (Maria Theresia) - II. Adagio 54:29 11. Symphony no. 48 in C major (Maria Theresia) - III. Minuetto 1:06:07 12. Symphony no. 48 in C major (Maria Theresia) - IV. Allegro 1:11:16 13. Symphony no. 49 in F minor (La Passione) - I. Adagio 1:14:35 14. Symphony no. 49 in F minor (La Passione) - II. Adagio 1:22:50 15. Symphony no. 49 in F minor (La Passione) - III. Minuetto 1:28:00 16. Symphony no. 49 in F Mi...

Max Fiedler and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra play Brahms's Symphony ...

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Johannes Brahms. Symphony no. 4 in E minor, op. 98. Orchester der Berliner Staatsoper; Max Fiedler, conductor. Recorded in 1930. I. Allegro non troppo ( 0:00 ) II. Andante moderato ( 12:32 ) III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto ( 24:33 ) IV Allegro energico e passionato ( 30:52 )

Yuja Wang performs Michael Tilson Thomas's "You Come Here Often?"

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7,141 views Feb 10, 2024 #MTT80 // Celebrating Yuja Wang on her birthday with this performance of MTT's composition "You Come Here Often?" This composition was featured on Yuja's Deutsche Grammophon album "The American Project," which just won the 2024 GRAMMY for "Best Classical Solo Performance." Congratulations, Yuja!

Herbert von Karajan: Documentary Portrait of the Conductor Legend

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Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), one of the 20th century’s most fascinating and complex geniuses, dominated the post-war classical music world like a colossus. At the same time, his ambitious, ambivalent personality, and particularly his troubling career history with the Third Reich cast a shadow on his reputation. This film reveals the phenomenon of the man and his music while touching on inspiring, but also controversial, and troubling aspects of his career. It is Karajan himself, in archive interviews, who talks of events in his life and relates them to his work as a conductor. Featuring performance excerpts of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Richard Strauss's Rosenkavalier. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00:00 - Intro: A Genius & His Influence ▷ 00:01:27 - Karajan's Childhood & Beginnings ▷ 00:10:40 - Career under Nazi regime, NSDAP membership & rivalry with Furtwängler ▷ 00:15:38 - Richard Strauss & World War II ▷ 00:17:55 - Meeting Walter Legge: Developmen...

Karajan's last concert: a tribute to exceptional leadership

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In his last concert, with Jessie Norman, Herbert von Karajan exhibits fully empowering Leadership despite his physical weakness, and the music is Divine