Ernest Bloch: Concerto Grosso No.2 for string quartet and strings | ORTensemble

Wagnerian chromaticism and Jewish mysticism often meet in Ernest Bloch's music. This work for strings is an example...

The Bunker (1981 TV film)

The Bunker is a 1981 American made-for-television historical war film based on the 1975 book "The Bunker" by James P. O'Donnell. The film, directed by George Schaefer, is a dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the Battle of Berlin. The film stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitler, plus an all star cast including Richard Jordan, Susan Blakely, and Cliff Gorman. (From Wikipedia)

Gabriel Fauré: "Cantique de Jean Racine" (orchestral version) | Choir of King's College, Cambridge

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From Kristallnacht to the fall of the Third Reich

Schumann: Manfred Overture (1848) | Wagner: Faust Overture (1840)

Walton: Symphony No. 1 | Alexander Shelley

 

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William Walton: Cello Concerto | Nicolas Altstaedt

Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 | Peter Oundjian

One might call it "Dvorak's tragic symphony", analogous to Mahler's "Sixth". Notice the influences of Brahms (esp. 2nd Symph.) and Bruckner.

Nadezhda Simonyan (1922-1997): Film Music

The Lady with the Little Dog (1960)

Rebecca (1940) | Alfred Hitchcock

The Paradine Case (1947) | Hitchcock Film Noir

Otto Klemperer: Symphonies No. 1 and 2 (Klemperer / Alun Francis)

Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.44

Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Dir. Gintaras Rinkevičius

 

Lili Boulanger: Du fond de l'abîme (Psalm 130)

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): Her life was tragically short but her talent as a composer was enormous! "Du fond de l'abîme" was composed in 1917.

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and Groot Omroepkoor, conducted by James Gaffigan.

Judit Kutasi, mezzosoprano

Fabio Trümpy, tenor

 

Delius: In a Summer Garden | Sir Andrew Davis

Mahler: Symphony No. 3 | Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Nathalie Stutzmann, Alto 

Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Dir. Andrés Orozco-Estrada

 

Richard Wagner: Albumblatt für Frau Betty Schott | Effie Agrafioti, Piano

Bruno Walter: the Maestro, the Man

Christoph Eschenbach: An interview

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

William Hagen, Violin

Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Dir. Christoph Eschenbach

Little moments in a Big City

Little "stories without words", filmed in the Acropolis area in Athens.

 

Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird (complete ballet music)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony

Dir. Andrés Orozco-Estrada

 

Frederick Delius: "Songs of Sunset" | Beecham

John Cameron · Maureen Forrester

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Beecham Choral Society

Dir. Thomas Beecham

 

The Great Caruso (1951) | Mario Lanza

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Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Martha Argerich (1970)

R. Wagner: Complete Piano Music | Pier Paolo Vincenzi

00:00:00 Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau M.W., WWV 85 

00:13:37 Piano Sonata in A Major, WWV 26 Op.4 ‘Große Sonate’

00:45:36 Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, WWV 21 Op. 1

01:13:02 Schluß zum Vorspiel, from Tristan und Isolde 

01:17:33 Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, WWV 22 Op. 3 

01:46:04 Albumblatt für Ernst Benedikt Kietz, WWV 64 ‘Lied ohne Worte’ 

01:48:13 Polonaise in D Major, WWV 23a 

01:51:10 In das Album der Fürstin M., WWV 94 

01:54:14 Züricher Vielliebchen-Walzer, WWV 88 

01:55:31 Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen, WWV 95 

02:00:42 Polka in G Major, WWV 84 

02:01:17 Notenbrief für Mathilde Wesendonck 

02:02:40 Polonaise for Piano Four Hands in D Major, WWV 23b Op.2 

02:07:59 Elegy in A-Flat Major 

02:09:37 Albumblatt für Frau Betty Schott, WWV 108 

02:15:12 Piano Sonata in A Major, WWV 26 Op. 4 ‘Große Sonate’: III. Maestoso: Tempo moderato e maestoso – Allegro molto (alternative version)

Outrage (1950)

"Outrage" is a 1950 film starring Mala Powers. It was directed by Ida Lupino, who also co-wrote the script. The film deals with the sensitive issue of rape... Read more

 

The Bigamist (1953)

Ida Lupino directs and co-stars in this 1953 classic drama.