P. I. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1 “Winter Daydreams” (Fedoseyev)

 

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P. I. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1 “Winter Daydreams” in G minor, Op. 13 (1866)
П. И. Чайковский – Симфония № 1 «Зимние грёзы» соль минор, соч. 13:
1. «Грёзы зимнею дорогой (Dreams of a Winter Journey)». Allegro tranquillo g-moll
2. «Угрюмый край, туманный край» (Land of Desolation, Land of Mists). Adagio cantabile ma non tanto
3. Скерцо (Scherzo). Allegro scherzando giocoso
4. Финал (Finale). Andante lugubre. Allegro maestoso

Moskow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Vladimir Fedoseyev
Recorded live at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1991

Make music Part of Your Life Series: Mozart:Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (Elvira Madigan) Pollini/Muti

Mozart:Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Riccardo Muti, conductor
(2004)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on March 9, 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto, K. 466.^[1][2]

The concerto has three movements:

 

1. Allegro maestoso; in common time. The tempo marking is in Mozart’s catalog of his own works, but not in the autograph manuscript.^[3]
2. Andante in F major. In both the autograph score and in his personal catalog, Mozart notated the meter as Alla breve. ^[4]
3. Allegro vivace assai

Recordings:  This work has been recorded numerous times by many famous pianists including Géza Anda, Piotr Anderszewski,Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Malcolm Bilson, Alfred Brendel, Robert Casadesus, Ivan Drenikov, Annie Fischer, Walter Gieseking, Friedrich Gulda, Stephen Hough, Keith Jarrett, Wilhelm Kempff, Walter Klien, Alicia de Larrocha, Giorgi Latsabidze, Rosina Lhevinne, Dinu Lipatti, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Maria João Pires,Maurizio Pollini, Arthur Rubinstein, Fazil Say, András Schiff, Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, Howard Shelley,Mitsuko Uchida, and Christian Zacharias.

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