Descripción: this excerpt begins with end of recitative from scene one (Bidú Sayão as Susanna), then into scene two as Ezio Pinza sings "Se vuol ballare", then all the recitatives and ends with scene 3 and Bartolo's aria "La vendetta". audio from old cassette tape of a live Met broadcast (January 29, 1944) with pictures of Ezio Pinza, Irra Petina and Salvatore Baccaloni. go here to listen (with a few pi...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1.credits and overture 2."May the Fates be kind under thy shade" 3."listen! They are playing such sweet music" "Oh hark--Oh hark, all ye wounded" (part) yes, it's done in English translation "Some imbecilities, and the temerity of Xerxes (such as his being deeply enamour'd with a plane tree, and the building a bridge over the Hellespont to unite Asia to Europe) are the basis of th...

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.

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: 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: The great performer here has to be Levine and that superb Met Opera orchestra, tho Matti Salminen is terrific too! Siegfried Jerusalem as Siegfried Matti Salminen as Hagen music by Richard Wagner Met Orch conducted by James Levine

Descripción: Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York City

Descripción: Up a Lazy River Tiger Rag Rockin' Chair--Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden When The Saints Go Marchin' In Taken from movie of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, filmed by Bert Stern. The other postings of this on YouTube here are either too dark or bad color, and this complete set all broken up--so I hadda fix that! The All-Stars include Trummy Young on Trombone; Billy Kyle on Piano and Da...

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: 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: 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: 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: Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme", or "Jenamy", in E flat major, K. 271. Movement No. 3: Rondo (Presto), in E flat major and 2/2 time Leif Ove Andsnes (born April 7, 1970 in Karmøy) is the Artistic Director at the Risør Festival of Chamber Music. Andsnes conducts the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra from the piano, in an beautiful old Norwegian Post Office.