The third movement is a highly nervous piece in sonata form, making heavy use of a figure of five eighth notes. The coda slows the tempo down, leading to a final outburst which fades to a quiet but agitated C major. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Maurizio Pollini performing the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen Video Rating: 4 / 5
Akira Miyagawa’s Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Mambo No.5 combination. Awesome synchronize! So cleaver Become Akira Miyagawa’s fan on Facebook www.facebook.com
youtube.com Barantschik and MTT demonstrate an approach to string articulation and style in the Finale of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Finale to Symphony No. 1 Kalinnikov’s First Symphony was a rousing success at its premiere in Kiev in 1897. This is an orchestration for wind symphony of it’s ‘Finale’, which provides a summation of the full symphony that is thoroughly nationalisticly Russian in character.
Turned loose on John Adams’s surprisingly flexible violin concerto, the team of conductor Kent Nagano and soloist Gidon Kremer do justice to its passionate verve. Nagano leads the London Symphony Orchestra to the point of near-explosion as it approaches Kremer’s sluicing take on the work. Kremer hits the right slipping scales and sometimes slashing skids like magic, with the orchestra seeping into the sound and leaping forward for Kremer to chase. The sound is effusively rich and far distant fr
** NOTICE ** Dear viewer, by sharing this free-of-charge TV broadcast, I do not intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you, however, are (one of) the copyright holder(s) and want it rather to be removed, please write me a message – instead of submitting a claim – and I will take it down immediately. Thank you! ** Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Symphony No. 104 in D major “London” IV. Finale: Spirituoso Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Mariss Jansons, conductor Recorded at Philharmonie im Gasteig, München, 2007 Video Rating: 4 / 5