Bach: A Passionate Life, With John Eliot Gardiner
The conductor John Eliot Gardiner is one of the foremost experts on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Under both groups that he founded, The English Baroque Soloists and The Monteverdi Choir, he has...
View ArticleAndrás Schiff Discusses Performing Bach
András Schiff is one of the world’s leading performers of the piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Here he discusses The Well-Tempered Klavier at an interview in New York City.
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein Rehearses Mahler 5 With The Vienna Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein was a key player in helping make the music of Gustav Mahler a mainstay in concert halls around the world. Here is a clip from the TV documentary ‘Leonard Bernstein Rehearses Mahler‘...
View ArticleJacqueline du Pre Performs The Elgar Cello Concerto
There are many great recordings of Elgar’s cello concerto, whether it be Pierre Fournier or maybe even today with Alisa Weilerstein. But in my mind, nothing tops the performance(s) given by Jacqueline...
View ArticleBach Cantatas BWV 179, 191 & 113, St. David’s Cathedral, Dyfed
In the year 2000, conductor Sir Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Solists embarked on what was called the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, an ambitious 52-week project of performing...
View ArticleJulia Fischer & Gordan Nikolić Perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante
I have to say this performance by Julia Fischer and Gordan Nikolić of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra is one of the most gratifying performances I’ve seen in a...
View ArticleThe Making Of Amadeus
I doubt there are many classical music fans that have never seen the movie Amadeus. Besides being a great story and having a great cast, I also think it’s the best Hollywood movie with actors looking...
View ArticleAmericans For The Arts –“Brahm’s Breakfast”
This is a pretty clever ad. I wish it was a Super Bowl ad.
View ArticleLeonard Bernstein & The Vienna Philharmonic Perform Brahms 2nd Symphony
Back in the late 1970s and early 80s, Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic often appeared on PBS performing Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and, as seen here, all of the Brahms symphonies....
View ArticleBruno Walter Discusses Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler died in 1911 at the age of just 51 year of age, way too early in my book, even if composers have had a tendency to die at young ages. Mozart died at the age of 35, Schubert at age 31,...
View ArticleCarlos Kleiber Documentary “Traces To Nowhere”
Carlos Kleiber was one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, no doubt. His recording, for example, of Beethoven’s 5th and 7th symphonies is the standard as well as for so many other pieces....
View ArticleHap-Pi Birthday To Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was an avid amateur violinist for most of his life and even in 1911 performed a recital of Mozart violin sonatas. Also I’ve always found it so fitting that Einstein’s birthday falls on...
View ArticleIvry Gitlis On The Meaning Of Life
Ivry Gitlis is a pretty intense guy and one who stands out from all the other great violinists in the world, and I mean that in a good way. Here he talks about his philosophy on life.
View ArticleIvry Gitlis Performing With John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton & Mitch...
Here is a clip of Ivry Gitlis playing at The Rolling Stones 1968 production of Rock & Roll Circus. It’s a bit of an odd performance, I have to say, especially with Yoko Ono’s contribution to it....
View ArticleHeifetz, Piatigorsky & Rubinstein Perform Schubert, 1953
Here is a rare film of violinist Jascha Heifetz, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and pianist Arthur Rubinstein performing Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat D. 988. It was filmed in 1953.
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