Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)01 - Scherzo No. 1 In B Minor, Op. 20
02 - Scherzo No. 2 In B Flat Minor, Op. 31
03 - Scherzo No. 3 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 39
04 - Scherzo No. 4 In E Major, Op. 54
Ivo Pogorelich - Piano
Recording Date
9/1995
This blog is dedicated to those geniuses who, with their music, made this world a better place to live.
Lorenzo Perosi (1872 - 1956)
Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916)
Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (1907 - 1993)
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
Ernest Bloch (1880 - 1959)
Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935)
Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957)
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
Nino Rota (1911 - 1979)
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
John Williams (1932 - )
Hans Werner Henze (1926 - )
Thomas Adès (1971 - )
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007)
Miklós Rózsa (1907 - 1995)
Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
Nino Rota (1911 - 1979)
Today, it's been one year since the greatest tenor of the last century left us. A humble hommage to the man whose voice thrilled millions around the world, me included.
Giuseppe Di Stefano (1921 - 2008)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Miklós Rózsa (1907 - 1995)
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
For the majority of Béla Bartók's devotees this is the best cycle of his marvelous quartets. On Tuesday and Wednesday the remaining quartets.
It was the celebration of the century, a party of truly operatic proportion. In the Opera House itself some 7,500 opera-goers gathered to pay tribute to the grande dame of America's cultural institutions on the occasion of her one-hundredth anniversary. In a technical tour de force, simultaneous radio and television transmission on four satellites expanded the party of well-wishers by millions of viewers in Europe and throughout the United States.
Hildegard Von Bingen (1098 - 1179)
Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)