Descripción: Hermann Prey and Fritz Wunderlich singing "Strahlt auf mich der Blitz des Goldes" (or "All'idea di quel metallo" in it's original italian version) thanks to mendoncacorreia for suggesting to upload this excerpt! taped in black and white (and in German) at the Residenztheater Munich for a TV broadcast. Originally aired on Christmas Day, December 25, 1959. Bavarian State Opera Orchestra ...

Descripción: Jean Morel, conductor (1962) George London in the death scene of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov This video clip, recorded off the Arts Channel, was provided to them "courtesy of Nora London".

Descripción: Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York City in the notes, Mortimer H. Franks reports that the engineers were unfamiliar with Carnegie Hall, and that explains the less than ideal camera shots and directions. Also, the hot lights got the 85 year old Toscanini sweating so much that by the end of the symphony he had to close his eyes and bear it! He never telecasted another concer...

Descripción: WARNING!! CONTAINS GRAPHIC SCENES OF TORTURE! Helen Mirren ... Queen Elizabeth I Patrick Malahide ... Sir Francis Walsingham Ian McDiarmid ... William Cecil, Lord Burghley Barbara Flynn ... Mary Queen of Scots Elizabeth I (2005) (TV) Directed by Tom Hooper (who worked with Mirren on "Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness") Written by Nigel Williams note to my YouTube friends:...

Descripción: Currently posted by "TheGreatPerformers," I've added English subtitles. (Subtitles by John Huntington).

Descripción: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Zurich Opera House Orchestra from 2002---titles end at about 2:34 and you see him conduct the rest of the overture. From start of opera to the entrance of the Commendatore. to see Matti Salminen's powerful Commendatore in this scene, go here: http:// youtube.com/watch?v=lhuFL44htTk Rodney Gilfrey (Don Giovanni) and Laszló Polgár, with Isabel Rey as Donna...

Descripción: I just love James Levine's conducting and those marvelous Met musicians for a "big band" version of this overture! "It was his bequest to mankind, his appeal to the ideals of humanity. His last work is not Tito or the Requiem; it is Die Zauberflöte. Into the Overture, which is anything but a Singspiel overture, he compressed the struggle and victory of mankind, using the symbolic means of polyp...

Descripción: with the Phila Orch, conducted by Riccardo Muti Born: February 6, 1903 - Chillán, Chile Died: June 9, 1991 - Mürzzuschlag, Austria Arrau's most important teacher, Martin Krause (a pupil of Liszt's), died in the 1918 flu epidemic--but Arrau's career was off and running a few years later. "He will be my masterwork," said Krause.

Descripción: A celebrated performance conducted by Leopold Stokowski with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, London, 14 June 1972. "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" by Claude Debussy. Yes, Stokowski without a baton. He used one on and off for years, but finally gave it up entirely in the 1920s. "Instead of one baton, I now have ten!" adapted from the liner notes by Edward Johnso...

Descripción: Beethoven Piano Sonata 27 in E minor, op 90 filmed the year of Beethoven's bicentennial, 1970, in a studio at the ORTF, January 19. Kempff (November 25, 1895 -- May 23, 1991) was 75 years old. He always seems to find so much warmth in Beethoven.

Descripción: duet: "Papagena! Papagena!" recitative and chorus: "Nur stille...Die Strahlen der Sonne" Barbara Kilduff as Papagena Manfred Hemm as Papageno Kurt Moll as Sarastro James Levine and the Met Orch (1991)

Descripción: Hagen, left to keep watch, broods on his plot's success ("Hier sitz ich zur Wacht"), at end of Act 1, scene 2. Then transition into scene 3. Levine and those superb Met players, plus a terrific Matti Salminen! Matti Salminen as Hagen music by Richard Wagner, film production from 1991.

Descripción: Dizzy played for Lucky Millinder's band in the early '40s. It was a riff this band played, after a Dizzy solo in the tune "Little John Special", that Dizzy developed into his tune "Salt Peanuts". who are the sidemen here? Is that Max Roach on drums, TheApeLad?

Descripción: The great A Major Piano Concerto, K. 488, number 23, Zoltán Kocsis at the piano with the Virtuosi di Praga under Jirí Behlohlávek, recorded live At The Rittersaal Of Palais Waldstein, Prague, 29 August 1990

Descripción: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2 go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff "Just read Shakespeare's The Tempest", said Beethoven when he was asked about this piece (and the Appassionata, Op. 57)---So reports Anton Schindler, who is not the most trustworthy source. recorded in Paris, 1968

Descripción: Sir Colin Davis conducts the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House Covent Garden. then some talking heads speak about the opera (last one is Jonathan Miller on the French Revolution), with snippets of performances from the Magic Flute by Sarastro • Alfred Reiter The Queen of the Night • Anna Kristiina Kaappola Papageno • Klaus Häger Papagena • Nadine Lehner Staatsopernchor Staatskapelle B...

Descripción: The Kuumba Singers perform "Ride On", and after a documentary bit, are joined by guest artist Bobby McFerrin for the traditional spiritual "Hold On". The Kuumba Singers are directed by Sheldon Reid. filmed at the Market Square in Leipzig, 2002. article here on Johanna Paretzky's ('03 graduate) experience with Kuumba and Bobby McFerrin at Leipzig: http:// hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/06.0...

Descripción: Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act III of his opera "Lohengrin" Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, at Studio 8-H, New York City. from TV broadcast of March 20, 1948. Toscanini (born 1867) first performed "Lohengrin" with his school friends in Professor Carini's violoncello school at the conservatory of Parma. He collected a few nicknames at school--"genius" and also "scisso...

Descripción: Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2, go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff recorded in Paris, 1968

Descripción: Fritz Wunderlich singing the count's canzone From Barber of Seville in German, "Wollet Ihr Meinem Namen Jetzt Kennen" go here to see Wunderlich and Prey sing "All'idea di quel metallo": http:// youtube.com/watch?v=KXiegdO1Xu4 taped in black and white for a TV broadcast at the Residenztheater Munich, originally broadcast on Christmas day, December 25, 1959. Hermann Prey - Figaro Bavari...