Descripción: Matti Salminen's powerful Commendatore. To see the opera from the start to this scene, go here: http:// youtube.com/watch?v=SotSKAYTyDw with Rodney Gilfrey (Don Giovanni) and Laszló Polgár

Descripción: Set to a video of outer space and the starry sky...Helmuth Rilling and Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart

Descripción: Aleksandar Madzar (Bösendorfer piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by André Previn second movement, Larghetto part one of the first movement is here: http:// youtube.com/watch?v=RCYidpqARGc Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto In B-Flat Major, K.595 No.27 [31.37 total time] Recorded At The Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 29 November 1990 Mozart's fi...

Descripción: extract from documentary on "Degenerate Music" (Entartete Kunst). It ends with commentary on by Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera "Das Wunder der Heliane". the musical scene in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s interview with conductor John Mauceri, composer Berthold Goldschmidt, and writer Norman Lebrecht. short clips of Kandinsky painting, shows and dancing from Berlin in the 20...

Descripción: beautifully sung with style! by Strauss Jr. - Wiener Blut, Op. 354

Descripción: nice to see a snappy dressed young Jimmy Rushing!

Descripción: From Act II of "Siegfried" by Richard Wagner -- end of scene two, and start of scene three. "Ist mir doch fast, als sprächen die Vöglein zu mir", and "Wohin schleichst du eilig und schlau, schlimmer Gesell?" Dawn Upshaw...voice of the Wood Bird (Stimme des Waldvogels, voix de l'oiseau) Siegfried Jerusalem...Siegfried Heinz Zednik...Mime Ekkehard Wlaschiha...Alberich go here to view the...

Descripción: filmed in Prague.

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: 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: 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: the first several minutes of the opera form a March 26, 1949 TV broadcast. Richard Tucker ... Radames Norman Scott ... Ramfis Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with the Robert Shaw Chorale.

Descripción: Vivaldi Concerto in D Major for Two Violins and Orchestra, with Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...from a VHS tape I recorded off TV (on the occasion of BSO's 100th Anniversary) over 25 years ago, but still in decent shape.

Descripción: Act 1 - Recitative: No Word From Tom (Anne) - Aria - Quietly, Night (Anne) - Recitative: My Father Can I Desert Him (Anne) - Cabaletta - I Go, I Go To Him (Anne) Dawn Upshaw a very fine Anne Trulove! conducted by Sylvain Cambreling The production was conceived and directed by Peter Mussbach with set/costume design by Jörg Immendorff. go here to see Isabel Rey sing "No Word From Tom"...

Descripción: the great Eva Dahlbeck (March 8, 1920-February 8, 2008), as the actress Desiree Armfeldt, has a visit with her mother (played by Naima Wifstrand) trading ripostes in an almost Wildean manner. Eva Dahlbeck attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dramatens elevskola) in 1941-44, then had many triumphs on stage and screen. She retired from acting years ago to write. Naima Wifstrand grew up very p...

Descripción: filmed in Paris, 1937.

Descripción: this is fun, the famous Met Opera star baritone Leonard Warren singing the Oley Speaks - Rudyard Kipling standard. with the Firestone Orchestra and Chrous, Howard Barlow, conductor, and the New England Conservatory of Music slightly better video quality here than the one I uploaded last year.

Descripción: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 1 in F major (KV 37) was completed in April of 1767, when Mozart was 11 years old. this concerto is a "pasticcio" arrangement for piano and orchestra by Mozart and his dad, based on works by other composers. But it is fun, light and pleasureable early Mozart. Leontzi Honauer, a composer in Strasbourg, wrote a sonata that is was the basis of this third movement...

Descripción: Dezsö Ránki (Steinway piano w/o lid) English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Tate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto In G Major, K.453 No.17 [32.12 total time] second movement, part one part two of the second movement is here: http:// youtube.com/watch?v=q-jzrT5fnSU Recorded at the Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, 15 November 1990 Sorry about hav...