Classical 2012

Classical 2012 allows you to sample some of the finest new recordings of the year and introduce yourself to some of the most exciting new talents in the world of classical music today. Discover just why artists such as pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, guitarist Milos, and singers Aleksander Kurzak and Anna Prohaska are taking the classical world by storm. Enjoy the artistry of some of today's greatest classical starts from soprano Anna Netrebko to pianist Lang Lang and from tenor Jonas Kaumann and Joseph Calleja to conducting sensation Gustavo Dudamel. Also includes legendary performances from some of the greatest artists of all time, including Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339 :: Laudate Dominum

Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Running Time: 5 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Written: 1780

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23

Performer: Lang Lang (Piano)
Running Time: 4 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1901

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée

Performer: Andrea Bocelli (Tenor)
Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874

Pergolesi, Giovanni : Nel chiuso centro

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Running Time: 2 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Cantata/Oratorio
Written: circa 1736

Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) : Suite española, Op. 47 :: Granada

Performer: Milos Karadaglic (Guitar)
Running Time: 5 min. 54 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1886

Francesco Cilèa (1866 - 1950) : Adriana Lecouvreur :: La dolcissima effigie

Performer: Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor)
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1902

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Symphony no 5 in E minor :: 3. Valse. Allegro moderato

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Running Time: 6 min. 19 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1888

Puccini, Giacomo : Suor Angelica :: Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto

Performer: Renée Fleming (Soprano)
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1918

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Symphony no 8 in F major :: 2. Allegretto scherzando

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1812

Verdi, Giuseppe : Rigoletto :: La donna è mobile

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1851

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) : Nocturne for piano in C sharp minor (doubtful), KK Anh.Ia/6

Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor (Piano)
Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Romantic

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: Près des remparts de Séville

Performers: Elina Garanca (Mezzo Soprano); Roberto Alagna (Tenor)
Conductor: Karel Chichon
Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874

Gluck, Christoph Willibald : Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits

Performer: Karlheinz Zoeller (Flute)
Conductor: Herbert Karajan
Running Time: 6 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Classical

Bizet, Georges : The Pearl Fishers, opera :: Je crois entendre encore

Performer: Joseph Calleja (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1863

Striggio, Alessandro : Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno" :: Agnes Dei II

Conductor: Robert Hollingworth
Ensemble: I Fagiolini
Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Prokofiev, Sergei : Concerto for Piano no 1 in D flat major :: 2. Andante assai

Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano)
Conductor: Andre Previn
Running Time: 4 min. 39 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Concerto
Written: 1911-1912

Cardillo, Salvatore : Core' ngrato

Performer: Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor)
Conductor: Giancarlo Chiaramello
Running Time: 4 min. 55 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Vocal
Written: 1911

Debussy, Claude : Clair de lune

Performers: Janine Jansen (Violin); Itamar Golan (Piano)
Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1890-1905

Brahms, Johannes : Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49 :: Wiegenlied, Op. 49/4

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
Running Time: 2 min. 4 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1868

Strauss I (Senior), Johann : Radetzky March, Op. 228

Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: March
Written: 1848

Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948) : Das Land des Lächelns :: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Villa-Lobos, Heitor : Bachianas brasileiras no 5 :: Aria (Cantilena)

Performer: Patricia Petibon (Soprano)
Conductor: Josep Pons
Running Time: 5 min. 36 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1938-1945

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) : Berceuse for Piano in D flat major, B 154/Op. 57

Performer: Daniel Barenboim (Piano)
Running Time: 4 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1844

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Gott soll allein mein Herze haben, BWV 169 (Cantata) :: 2. Arioso

Performer: Andreas Scholl (Countertenor)
Conductor: Julia Schroeder
Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 10/20/1726

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Rondo a Capriccio for piano in G major ("Rage Over a Lost Penny"), Op. 129

Performer: Alice Ott (Piano)
Running Time: 6 min. 19 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Written: 1795-1798

Ariel Ramírez (1921 - 2010) : Misa Criolla :: Kyrie

Performer: Juan Flórez (Tenor)
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Choral
Written: 1964

Schubert, Franz : Schwanengesang, D 957

Performer: Nicola Benedetti (Violin)
Conductor: Kenneth Sillito
Running Time: 4 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1828

Strauss II (Junior), Johann : Die Fledermaus :: Mein Herr Marquis

Performer: Aleksandra Kurzak
Conductor: Omer Wellber
Running Time: 3 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1874

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 :: 1. Allegro moderato

Performer: Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Concerto
Written: 1730

Vivaldi, Antonio : Tito Manlio :: Sonno, se pur sei sonno

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1719

Liszt, Franz : Consolations (6) for Piano, S 172

Performer: Jorge Bolet (Piano)
Running Time: 3 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1849-1850

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Rusalka :: Mesícku na nebi hlubokém (Song to the Moon)

Performers: Anna Prohaska (Soprano); Eric Schneider (Piano)
Running Time: 5 min. sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Verdi, Giuseppe : La traviata :: Act 1. Prelude

Conductor: Sir Solti
Notes: Composition written: 1853.
Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1853

Verdi, Giuseppe : I vespri siciliani :: Mercè, dilette amiche

Performer: Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano)
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Running Time: 4 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1855

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66 :: Valse. La Belle au bois dormant

Performers: Sergei Roldugin (Cello); Uri Zagorodniuk (Violin)
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Running Time: 4 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Ballet
Written: 1888-1889

Massenet, Jules : Werther :: Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?

Performer: Giuseppe Di Stefano (Tenor)
Conductor: Franco Patanè
Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Kreisler, Fritz : Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the style of Francoeur

Performers: Joshua Bell (Violin); Paul Coker (Piano)
Notes: Composition written: Circa 1905.
Running Time: 4 min. 1 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: circa 1905

Pochin, Morgan : Lucrezia (after Handel)

Performer: Danielle Niese
Conductor: James Morgan
Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary

Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891) : Coppélia :: The last rose of summer

Performer: Joan Sutherland (Soprano)
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
Running Time: 2 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Ballet
Written: 1870

Flotow, Friedrich von : Martha :: The last rose of summer

Performer: Joan Sutherland (Soprano)
Conductor: Richard Bonynge
Notes: Composition written: 1847.
Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1847

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