Happy 100th birthday, Maria Callas! 🎈
#Callas100
Today, we celebrate the legacy of this diva unlike any other, whose breathtaking voice, awe-inspiring presence & pure talent capture our hearts.
Watch her electrifying performance of Carmen's Séguedille:
Happy birthday, Brahms! 🎈 Born
#onthisday
in 1833.
In this excerpt from 1968, Jacqueline du Pré and Daniel Barenboim play the second movement of his Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major. Discover this and more in the special Jacqueline du Pré edition:
Coming this April 🎶 Mythologies is Thomas Bangalter's first opus for orchestra, through which the co-founder of Daft Punk reinvents his relationship to composition.
Pre-order and learn more here:
OUT NOW! 🎻 The acclaimed Serbian-French violinist
@NemanjaRadulOFF
makes his Warner Classics debut with his ensemble
@doublesensorch
in Roots.
Buy and listen to the album here:
🎥 Zepter Creative Studio
Happy birthday, Martha Argerich! 🎈 The pianist, a true living legend, was born
#onthisday
in 1941.
Enjoy some of her greatest recordings – from her iconic 1965 Chopin album to her live Lugano concerts – on the dedicated playlist:
Congratulations to Aimi Kobayashi (
@aimi_piano
), 4th place ex aequo in the International Chopin Piano Competition! 🎉🎹
@ChopinInstitute
Her newest recording exemplifies the special relationship she has with this virtuoso Romantic composer. Enjoy here:
Happy New Year! 🎊🎇 Here's to another year of music that inspires, moves, and enchants us 🎶
Enjoy
@alisonbalsom
's Sound the Trumpet album, with Trevor Pinnock and the
@EnglishConcert
baroque orchestra, here:
Strings on fire! 🔥
@NemanjaRadulOFF
and
@doublesensorch
perform their lively Hommage à Aleksandar Šišić, a medley of pieces by the great Serbian violinist, arranged by Aleksandar Sedlar and directed by Goran Aleksić.
Watch the full video here:
Happy birthday, Martha Argerich! 🎈 The legendary pianist was born
#onthisday
in 1941.
Trace back to the beginning of her career with her 1965 Chopin recording, recently remastered, which she made shortly after winning the prestigious Chopin Competition:
Happy birthday to Hephzibah Menuhin, born
#onthisday
in 1920 🎈
Here, she plays Chopin's Étude Op. 25, No. 11 in A minor at the 1976
@UNICEF
concert. Discover her recordings and more about her life as a musician & philanthropist in the Homage collection:
Happy birthday to Jacqueline du Pré, born
#onthisday
in 1945 🎈
Cherish her legacy recordings with the dedicated playlist, compiling sparkling moments from her catalogue, from Elgar with Sir John Barbirolli & the
@londonsymphony
and beyond:
The opening movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K.457, is performed by pianist
@YundiMusic
, at the Great Hall of the Mozarteum in Salzburg. This recording is featured in YUNDI's latest album, "Mozart: The Sonata Project - Salzburg." 🎧
OUT NOW! 📣
@BeatriceRana
, Yannick
@nezetseguin
, and the
@ChambOrchEurope
further the legacy of one of history's most talented musical couples, Clara Wieck-Schumann and Robert Schumann, in their new album.
Discover here:
Written in 1735, Le Coucou by the French composer Louis-Claude Daquin imitates the sprightly call of the cuckoo bird, at its most vocal during the day 🐦
Listen to
@fazilsaymusic
's new recording for his Morning Piano collection:
Originally written for solo piano, "La fille aux cheveux de lin" ("The Girl with the Flaxen Hair") from Debussy's first book of Préludes transforms effortlessly in this arrangement from
@RCapucon
's newest album, with
@GuillaumeBellom
.
🎥 Keep watching:
Grief, heartbreak, and hurt resonate through every note of Chimène's aria that opens Act 3 of the opera Le Cid, following a horrifying turn of events 💔
Watch Maria Callas's 1962 performance from her recital in Hamburg here:
#Callas100
#Stravinsky
's Petrushka ballet premiered
#onthisday
in 1911, performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 🩰🎶
The story brings together music, dance, and incredible scenography in a spectacular production. Discover more about the Ballets Russes legacy:
Has there ever been a more perfect Norma? ✨
Maria Callas made her first studio recording as this tragic legendary character in 1954, under the baton of Tullio Serafin. 🎧 Listen to the remastered version now on digital platforms:
Written for Édith Piaf, "La Vie en Rose" is renewed in this solo-cello version by
@GautierCapucon
💖 Arranged by
@JeromeDucros
, also on piano with the
@ON_Bretagne
and Johanna Malangré.
Pre-order Sensations and listen to this piece on digital platforms:
Written by the great Ennio Morricone for the 1986 film The Mission, "Gabriel's Oboe" has since flourished into a multitude of musical reimaginations.
Enjoy
@GautierCapucon
's new rendition, with the
@ON_Bretagne
and conductor Johanna Malangré:
Elisabeth Leonskaja, especially known for interpretations of Classical and Romantic Austro-German repertoire, takes on Mozart's 18 spectacular piano sonatas in her next musical expedition. Out February 18th!
🔊 Listen to a new track from the album:
Passion and power 🔥 Maria Callas sings a dramatic passage of Spontini's "Tu che invoco con orrore", from La Vestale, with Nicola Rescigno and the Sinfonieorchester des NDR.
🎥 Watch her full live performance, from 1959 in Hamburg:
#Callas100
#OnThisDay
120 years ago, Claudio Arrau was born 🎶 Today, he is recognized as one of the great pianists of the 20th century.
Much of his vast Warner discography is now available for streaming, and you can explore all the recordings in the 24-CD boxset:
The divine Maria Callas sings "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), an iconic aria that demands a dazzling demonstration of skill, personality, and force ⚡
Watch her full performance:
#Callas100
One of Verdi's most masterful operas, Ernani, lends an aria to soprano repertoire that has become a favorite in recital settings: "Surta è la Notte ... Ernani, Involami" 💘
Watch Maria Callas's passionate performance from Hamburg in 1962:
#Callas100
Originally written for violin and piano, Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata is imbued with new color and character in this arrangement by
@NemanjaRadulOFF
, performed with his ensemble
@doublesensorch
.
Discover this and more on their new album:
Today is
#WorldOperaDay
! And who better to demonstrate the transcendent power of opera than the supreme Divina, Maria Callas 🎭⭐
Here, she sings "Tu che le vanità" from Verdi's Don Carlo, live in Hamburg in 1959. Watch more:
#Callas100
@WorldOperaDay
Today marks 35 years since Jacqueline du Pré's passing,
#onthisday
in 1987.
She established herself as one of the most impressive cellists the modern world has ever known ✨ Rediscover her artistic genius preserved in recording:
📺
@GautierCapucon
plays the lilting 'Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour' from Les contes d'Hoffmann in an original transcription by Jérôme Ducros, part of the cellist's 2023 release 'Destination Paris'. Played here with the
@orchambreparis
and conductor Lionel Bringuier.
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Édith Piaf 🎶
Among her many celebrated recordings is her rendition of "Les Feuilles Mortes", known in English as "Autumn Leaves" 🍂 Watch
@GautierCapucon
's performance with
@JeromeDucros
here:
Happy birthday, Itzhak Perlman (
@PerlmanOfficial
)! 🎈 The legendary violinist turns 76 today.
Enjoy some of his most iconic Tchaikovsky performances, including the Violin Concerto with conductor Eugene Ormandy, in this special digital compilation:
Wheels that are constantly turning, carrying us down a long and winding road – this is what the pianist Büşra Kayıkçı (
@kayikcibusra_
) imagines in the new version of her original piece "Yol/Path" 🌀
Out now on digital platforms! Listen here:
As if written for it, the sparkling flute beautifully assumes the melody of Mendelssohn's Violin Sonata in F Major in this transcription, recorded by
@EPahud
and pianist
@eric_le_sage
for their new album of Romances ✨
Watch more:
Out today! 🎶 Thomas Bangalter reinvents his approach to composition in Mythologies, performed by the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under the direction of Romain Dumas.
Discover the recording:
Piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin died
#onthisday
in 1849 🎶
@BeatriceRana
has dedicated her newest album to
#Chopin
's rich and captivating music. Discover here:
We were saddened to learn of the passing of conductor Seiji Ozawa. Celebrate his lifelong contribution to music-making with a collection of some his finest recordings in this specially curated Spotify playlist, including works by Prokofiev and Sibelius.
OUT NOW! 📣 David Fray presents his own interpretations of Bach's Goldberg Variations in his new landmark album.
Buy, download, and listen here:
🎥 Chagar Productions
Today is the 12th anniversary of the death of
#MstislavRostropovich
, regarded by many as the greatest cellist of the 20th century 🎶
He was equally a master of traditional repertoire as of new music. Listen to some of his best recordings:
The world lost a legend
#onthisday
in 1977 💔
Maria Callas, born 100 years ago, possessed a voice that defied simple classification and rare talent that has set her apart in history. Immerse yourself in her voice unlike any other:
#Callas100
Happy birthday, Martha Argerich! 🎈
She was born
#onthisday
in 1941 in Buenos Aires.
Enjoy some of her most iconic recordings, from Mozart to Piazzolla, with the dedicated playlist:
A longing farewell to the Montmartre of the past, "La Bohême" was first sung by Charles Aznavour in 1965 🎶
This new version by
@GautierCapucon
was transcribed for solo cello and piano by
@JeromeDucros
, also accompanist on the recording. Listen here:
This milestone studio performance by Maria Callas tells the compelling story of Amina, whose sleepwalking causes a scandal that puts her at risk of losing the love of her life.
🎧 Listen to the 1957 recording of La Sonnambula, with Antonino Votto:
Maria Callas soars through the emotional range of the aria "O Don Fatale, O Don Crudel", from Act III of Verdi's Don Carlo, in this concert recorded live in Hamburg in 1962 🎙️
Watch the complete aria here:
#Callas100
.
@NemanjaRadulOFF
and
@doublesensorch
perform the Rondo (Allegro) of Beethoven's Violin Concerto, which Nemanja describes as "the concerto I’ve performed most often in public and one that, I believe, has brought me great luck." 🎻
Enjoy the recording:
In this 1962 stage performance from Hamburg, Maria Callas conveys the incredible battle that Chimène, the heroine from Massenet's opera Le Cid, faces within herself after the loss of her father at the hands of her love 🥀
Watch more here:
#Callas100
100 iconic performances by La Divina 🌟 From complete operas to recitals, both live and in the studio – this new digital collection invites you into Maria Callas's radiant artistic world through a selection of her very best recordings.
Listen:
#Callas100
Clarinetist David Orlowsky and lutenist David Bergmüller play their original arrangement of Henry Purcell's hauntingly beautiful Sarabande ✨
Now available for streaming in their new EP! Listen to Alter Ego – Postlude here:
The violin of Maria Ioudenitch sings in place of the human voice in this alluring transcription, made by the violinist herself and recorded with pianist Kenny Broberg, of Rachmaninoff's "Don't sing, my beauty, for me", from 6 Romances, Op. 4.
🎧 Listen:
A moment of breathtaking beauty with Thibaut Garcia, playing "Una Limosnita por el Amor de Dios" ("El último trémolo") by Agustín Barrios 💫 He has recorded this splendid piece for his new solo album, releasing next month.
Watch his complete performance:
WATCH! Renaud Capuçon plays music written by Georges Delerue from the Academy Award-nominated 1980 film Le Dernier Metro (‘The Last Metro’), performed here with Les Siècles and conductor Duncan Ward from the album 'Les choses de la vie'.
Is Erik Satie still relevant? To composer John Cage: "It’s not a question of Satie’s relevance; he’s indispensable." 💡
Bertrand Chamayou (
@ChamayouB
) plays works by these innovative composers on his next album – out November 17th! Listen to a new single:
Happy birthday, Pablo Casals! 🎊
The cellist was born
#onthisday
in 1876 in El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain.
Enjoy his recordings of the Bach Cello Suites, made from 1936-1939:
Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, and
@PlacidoDomingo
– The Three Tenors – sing Verdi's famous brindisi from La Traviata with Zubin Mehta and the
@LAPhil
, live in 1994 🌟
Keep watching here on YouTube:
#ThrowbackThursday
#tbt
Jean-Claude Petit's iconic main theme from Jean de Florette - an evocative wistful melody played here by
@RCapucon
and
@LesSiecles
with
@DuncanWardMusic
- is one of many enchanting tracks on Capucon's album Les Choses de la Vie - Cinema II. 🎧
Today is Robert Schumann's birthday! 🎈 The German composer and pianist was born
#onthisday
in 1810.
Enjoy
@BeatriceRana
's performance of his romantic Widmung, which she sees as emblematic of his relationship with his wife, the virtuoso pianist Clara:
Happy 200th birthday to César Franck! 🎈 The Romantic composer is especially admired for his works for orchestra, organ, piano and chamber ensembles.
Enjoy
@RCapucon
&
@BuniatishviliKh
's recording of his Violin Sonata and more in the César Franck Edition:
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe sings the Air des clochettes from the opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes, with
@fxrroth
and
@LesSiecles
.
Discover this and more on her 2017 album Mirages:
#tbt
#throwbackthursday
OUT NOW! 🎉 Step into a classical haven of Mozart's entire piano sonata collection, performed by the great pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja.
Album available here to buy, download, and stream:
Out today on CD & digital platforms! 🎵
Piano works by three Central European composers form the program of Piotr Anderszewski's new recording: Bartók, Janáček, and Szymanowski, all of whom drew inspiration from the musical traditions of their homelands:
.
@RCapucon
's newest solo album is now available in a vinyl edition! 💝 Discover here:
The recording with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne presents his milestone interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons alongside concertos by Chevalier de Saint-George.
The intense rhythmic pulse of
@philipglass
's "Music in Similar Motion" coaxes us into a daze as we propel through its variations, played by saxophones, strings, and percussion.
🎧 Listen to BL!NDMAN's new recording here:
Today marks the first anniversary of the death of Ennio Morricone 🎶
Here,
@RCapucon
plays one of his most famous and cherished melodies, the theme from Cinema Paradiso, with Stéphane Denève and the
@BrusselsPhil
. Enjoy more:
Cellist
@GautierCapucon
plays Rameau’s scene-setting Danse des Sauvages from the 18th century opéra-ballet “Les Indes galantes” with Paris Chamber Orchestra, from the Destination Paris album.
🎧
📺
Happy birthday, Verdi! Born
#onthisday
in 1813 🎈
Maria Callas sings the emotion-laden aria "Tu che le vanità", from the final act of Don Carlo, in this performance with Nicola Rescigno and the Sinfonieorchester des NDR. Watch more:
#Callas100
More Stories by
@AnnelLenaerts
is out now! ✨
The new EP brings together more music that has played a special part in her musical life, in beautiful transcriptions for solo harp. Listen here:
Maria Callas is a radiant Madama Butterfly in this 1955 studio recording of Puccini's heartrending operatic masterpiece, led by Herbert von Karajan 🦋🎶
Now available for streaming! Listen to her sing the famous aria "Un bel dì vedremo" and more:
Elisabeth Leonskaja plays the second movement of
#Mozart
's Piano Sonata in F major, a first taste of her upcoming release of the Complete Piano Sonatas.
Watch the full video:
Maria Callas's 1964 recording of the famous "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen has become one of her most beloved performances, striking admiration in classical aficionados and casual listeners alike with its fiery spirit and humor 🔥
🔊 Listen here:
Today, we celebrate
#WorldMusicDay
! Happy Fête de la Musique! 🎶🎉
What better way to start the day than with this lively medley played by
@NemanjaRadulOFF
and
@doublesensorch
? Enjoy the complete piece, an homage to the violinist Aleksandar Šišić, here:
Inspired by her experience performing operas at the Wiener Staatsoper,
@AnnelLenaerts
has chosen an excerpt from Korngold's Die tote Stadt (The Dead City) to recreate in an enchanting solo-harp transcription 💫
Listen to the new single:
During a career of just 12 years, Jacqueline du Pré made a lasting impact on the world of music 💫
This June, rediscover the treasures of her EMI Classics catalogue in a special 23-CD set, featuring newly remastered recordings and unissued performances:
Coming February 2024! 🎞️✨
@RCapucon
returns to the magical world of cinema in his next album, exploring music written by French film composers or for iconic French films, with
@LesSiecles
& conductor
@DuncanWardMusic
.
Pre-order & listen to one track now:
Ahead of
@YundiMusic
’s new album release later this week 'Mozart: The Sonata Project - Salzburg', watch the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition winner share his personal reflections on what Mozart’s writing means to him. Full video - 🎹
"Klemperer approached the essence of what he wanted directly and without hesitation." –
@DBarenboim
on Otto Klemperer, with whom he collaborated in this historic 1967 recording of
#Beethoven
's "Emperor" Piano Concerto.
Available once more on vinyl! 🎶
"Otto Klemperer literally embodied a vast amount of 20th-century musical history ... There remains a tension, and a sense of architectural command, to his finest recordings that takes the listener to the heart of the music." –
@nytimes
Discover more:
Jacqueline du Pré plays the 2nd movement of Brahms's Cello Sonata No. 2, with
@DBarenboim
at the keys 🎻🎹
This 1968 recording is assembled alongside her entire Warner catalogue in the new 23-disc special edition. Pre-order here:
🎥 Allegro Films
Happy birthday, Frédéric Chopin! 🎈 The composer and piano virtuoso was born
#onthisday
in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, Poland.
Here, Yoav Levanon plays his fervant Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, featured on the young pianist's debut album. Watch the full video:
The moving main theme from the score to Schindler's List, composed by the legendary John Williams, is featured on
@GautierCapucon
's most recently released album: Sensations. Discover here:
With Jérôme Ducros,
@ON_Bretagne
, and conductor Johanna Malangré.
Among the classical selections of
@GautierCapucon
's program for Destination Paris is the dancing melody of the Sicilienne by Fauré, transcribed and accompanied by pianist
@JeromeDucros
💫
Out today on digital platforms! Listen here:
For the 4th movement of his "Hammerklavier" sonata, Beethoven wrote a riveting fugue, full of resonance and passion 🔥
@BeatriceRana
presents her own rendition of this masterpiece on her next album, out March 8th! Listen to this movement now:
#OnThisDay
99 years ago, Maria Callas was born 🌟 She would become one of the greatest icons of the classical music world, awing and enchanting listeners around the world with her unparalleled voice.
🎧 Listen to the Maria Callas playlist here:
Tonight at Olympia Hall,
@GautierCapucon
plays a reverie of French music celebrating Paris incl. Piaf, Gounod, and Debussy. “So many hearts united beyond differences and singularities, united by talent, courage and passion.”
@OlympiaHall
, 8PM. 🎫
Simply divine ✨ Sabine Devieilhe sings "Tu del ciel ministro eletto" from Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The Triumph of Time and Disillusion), with the
@EnsPygmalion
and
@RaphaPichon
.
#ThrowbackThursday
#tbt
🎥 Full performance: