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Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

Piano:Lang Lang
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
At Royal Albert Hall.

The Nutcracker ballet

The Nutcracker, Op. 71 is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on [...]

Overture Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka

Ruslan and Lyudmila is an opera in five acts (eight tableaux) composed by Mikhail Glinka between 1837 and 1842. The opera is based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The multi-authored Russian libretto was written by Valerian Shirkov, Nestor Kukolnik, and N. A. Markevich, among others. Pushkin’s untimely death in [...]

Ferdinand Ries – Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Op. 80 (1814)

Symphony No. 2 by Ferdinand Ries.
Conducted by Howard Griffiths with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra.
I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo – 00:00
II. Andantino – 8:32
III. Menuetto – Allegretto – 14:45
IV. Allegro Ma Non Troppo – 20:10

From that piece you can also enjoy a visualization of the 1st violin of the 2nd symphony, 4th movement by Ferdinand [...]

Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – IV

Piece: New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak.
Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker.
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.

Mendelsohn Symphony no. 4 in A mayor, the Italian

The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847).
The Italian Symphony was finished in Berlin, 13 March 1833, in response to an invitation for a symphony from the London (now Royal) Philharmonic Society; he conducted the first performance himself [...]

J. S. Bach – “Jesus bleibet meine Freude” BWV 147

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