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| x Gilles Apap | Swing | Nice | No Piano On That One |
Gilles Apap (born May 21, 1963) is a french violinist who plays Romani (gypsy) music, swing, Irish music, and bluegrass music, as well as the masterpieces of classical music.
Born in Bougie, he was raised in Nice, France. In 1985 he won the first...
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| x Pablo Casals |
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European Classical music | Cello Suites - Pablo casals (Disc 1) |
Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876 – October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and...
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| x Adrian Boult |
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European Classical music |
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
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| x Boston Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Boston |
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the five American orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1881, the BSO plays the majority of its concerts at Boston's...
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| x San Francisco Symphony |
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European Classical music | San Francisco | S&M DVD |
The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) is a leading orchestra based in San Francisco, California. The current music director is Michael Tilson Thomas, who has held the position since September 1995.
The orchestra has long been an integral part of city...
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| x BBC Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | London |
The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal broadcast orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.
The orchestra was founded as a full time organisation in 1930, with Adrian Boult as its first chief...
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| x Dallas Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Dallas |
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra. It performs its concerts in the Meyerson Symphony Center in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States.
The orchestra traces its origins to a concert given by a group of...
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| x Seattle Symphony |
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European Classical music | Seattle |
The Seattle Symphony is an American orchestra based in Seattle, Washington. Gerard Schwarz has served as its music director since 1983.
The orchestra's first performance was given on December 29, 1903, with Harry West conducting. Known from its...
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| x Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Liverpool | Stabat Mater |
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra based in Liverpool, England, is Britain's oldest established orchestra and one of the oldest in the world. It is owned and administered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society (RLPS), a registered...
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| x Hallé Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Manchester |
The Hallé is a symphony orchestra based in Manchester, England. It is the UK's oldest extant symphony orchestra (and the fourth oldest in the world), supports a choir and a youth orchestra, and releases its recordings on its own record label, though...
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| x Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Leipzig |
The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; sometimes simply referred to as Gewandhausorchester) is a famous German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus (...
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| x Minnesota Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Minneapolis |
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra in 1903 as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which gave its first performance on November 5 of that year. The name was changed...
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| x Gareth Morris | European Classical music | London |
Gareth Charles Walter Morris (13 May 1920 - 14 February 2007) was a British flautist. He was the principal flautist of a number of London orchestras including the Boyd Neel Orchestra before joining the Philharmonia Orchestra. He was the principal...
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| x Karel Ančerl |
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European Classical music |
Karel Ančerl (April 11, 1908 – July 3, 1973), born Karel Antscherl, was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. His recordings with Czech Philharmonic acquired many...
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| x Antal Doráti | European Classical music | Stravinsky / Firebird, Fireworks and Song of the Nightingale |
Antal Doráti KBE (April 9, 1906 – November 13, 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1947.
Doráti was born in Budapest in a Jewish family, where his father was a violinist with the Budapest...
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| x Joachim Raff |
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European Classical music | Klavierkonzert / Ode (Radio-Sinfonieorchester Basel feat. conductor: Matthias Bamert, piano: Peter Aronsky) |
Joseph Joachim Raff (May 27, 1822 - June 24 or June 25, 1882) was a Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon,...
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| Romantic music | Symphony No. 4 in G minor / Symphony No. 3 in F major (Milton Keynes City Orchestra feat. conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton) | ||||
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| x Roberto Alagna | European Classical music | Opera Arias |
Roberto Alagna (born June 7, 1963) is a French operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Alagna was born outside of the city of Paris in 1963 to a family of Sicilian immigrants. As a teenager,...
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| Sacred Songs (feat. Roberto Alagna: tenor, City of Toulouse Choir and Orchestra feat. conductor: Michel Plasson) | |||||
| x Leonard Slatkin |
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European Classical music | Orff / Carmina Burana |
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor. Long associated with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, he is now music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and...
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| x Ambroise Thomas |
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European Classical music | Mignon (The Chorus of Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels & l'Orchestre National de Belgique feat. conductor: George Sebastian) |
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (Metz 5 August 1811 - Paris, 12 February 1896) was a French opera composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871-1896....
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| x Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Hong Kong |
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (traditional Chinese: 香港管弦樂團; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Guǎnxián Yuètuán), commonly abbreviated HKPO (港樂), is the largest symphony orchestra in Hong Kong. First established in 1895 as an amateur orchestra named Sino...
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| x Fritz Reiner |
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European Classical music |
Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner (December 19, 1888 - November 15, 1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.
Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary to a secular Jewish family that resided in the Pest area of...
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| x George Szell |
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European Classical music | Mozart - K 525 Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K 320 Posthorn |
George Szell (pronounced /ˈsɛl/) (June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the...
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| Russian Favourites (feat. Conductor George Szell) | |||||
| x Michael Tilson Thomas |
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European Classical music | Los Angeles | The Phantom of the Opera (disc 2) |
Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944), is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles, California to Ted and Roberta Thomas, Broadway stage...
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| x Jukka-Pekka Saraste | European Classical music |
Jukka-Pekka Saraste (born April 22, 1956, Lahti) is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
With the beginning of the 2010/2011 season, Jukka-Pekka Saraste will start his position as Chief Conductor of the WDR Radio Orchestra in Cologne.
Since August...
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| x Domenico Dragonetti |
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European Classical music |
Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti (April 7, 1763 – April 16, 1846) was an Italian double bass virtuoso. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown of Venice, Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in...
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| x Paavo Järvi | European Classical music | Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, Lieutenant Kijé Suite |
Paavo Järvi (born December 30, 1962) is an Estonian-American conductor.
Järvi was born in Tallinn, Estonia, to conductor Neeme Järvi and Liilia Järvi. His siblings, Kristjan Järvi and Maarika Järvi, are also musicians. "A Maestro And His Plans For...
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| x Alban Berg Quartet | European Classical music | Vienna | String Quartets |
The Alban Berg Quartett was a string quartet founded in Vienna, Austria in 1970, named after the famous composer Alban Berg. Its debut performance was in 1971. The widow of the composer attended one of their earliest concerts, and was moved by their...
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| x Gary Karr |
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European Classical music |
Gary Karr (born November 20, 1941), is an American classical double bass virtuoso and teacher.
Although he comes from seven generations of bassists, he was not encouraged by them to go into music. In an interview with ActiveBass magazine he said...
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| x Karl Davidov |
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European Classical music |
Karl Juljewitsch Davydov (Russian: Карл Юльевич Давыдов), (15 March [O.S. 3 March] 1838 - 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1889) was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists"...
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| x Albert Coates |
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European Classical music |
Albert Coates (April 23, 1882 – December 11, 1953) was an Anglo-Russian conductor and composer.
Coates was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, the youngest of seven sons of an English father and a Russian mother.
He studied at the conservatory...
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| x Niels Wilhelm Gade |
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European Classical music |
Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.
Gade was born in Copenhagen, the son of a joiner and...
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| x Virgil Fox |
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European Classical music |
Virgil Keel Fox (born Princeton, Illinois May 3, 1912– died Palm Beach, Florida October 25, 1980) was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach. These events appealed to audiences in the...
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| x L. Shankar | Jazz | Touch Me There |
Lakshminarayanan Shankar (born April 26, 1950), also known as L. Shankar, Shankar or Shenkar, is a violinist, vocalist and composer.
L. Shankar was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu. Growing up in Jaffna, Ceylon, where his father V. Lakshminarayan was a...
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| x Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | St. Louis | A Slavonic Festival: Slavic and Russian Favorites (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra) |
The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1880 by Joseph Otten as the St. Louis Choral Society, the SLSO is the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States as it is...
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| x Jose Iturbi |
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European Classical music |
José Iturbi (28 November 1895 – 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor and pianist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the 1943 musical, Thousands Cheer and in the 1945 film, Anchors Aweigh. He was...
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| x Lenny Breau |
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Jazz | Boy Wonder |
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a Canadian guitarist. He was known for blending many styles of music including: jazz, country, classical and flamenco guitar. Breau, inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, used fingerstyle...
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| European Classical music | Cabin Fever | ||||
| Live at Bourbon St. [disc 1] | |||||
| Standard Brands (feat. Chet Atkins) | |||||
| The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau - Live! | |||||
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| x Ferenc Erkel |
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Romantic music | Hunyadi László (Male Chorus of the Hungarian People's Army & Hungarian State Opera Chorus & Orchestra feat. conductor: János Kovács) |
Ferenc Erkel (Hungarian: Erkel Ferenc(z) Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛrɛnts ˈɛrkɛl], German: Franz Erkel; November 7, 1810 – June 15, 1893) was a Hungarian composer. He was the father of Hungarian grand opera, written mainly on historical themes,...
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| European Classical music | Bánk Bán (Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra & Hungarian State Opera Chorus feat. conductor: Ferencsik János) | ||||
| x Wilfred Gibson |
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Rock music | Northumberland |
Wilfred Gibson (born 28 February 1945, Dilston, Northumberland, England) is an English violinist who played in the band Electric Light Orchestra, and has performed as a session musician. He replaced original ELO violinist Steve Woolam in 1972 and...
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| x Rashid Behbudov |
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Folk music |
Rashid Behbudov (Azerbaijani: Rəşid Behbudov) (December 14, 1915 – June 9, 1989) was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Armenian, Urdu and Bengali among other languages.
Rashid Behbudov was...
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| x Utah Symphony Orchestra | European Classical music | Salt Lake City |
The Utah Symphony Orchestra is a full-time symphony orchestra located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The first attempt to create a symphony group in the Utah area occurred in 1892, before Utah was a state. The Salt Lake Symphony was created and presented...
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| x Leon Fleisher |
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European Classical music | Great Pianists of the 20th Century (Leon Fleisher) |
Leon Fleisher (born July 23, 1928) is an American pianist and conductor.
He was born in San Francisco, California, where he started studying the piano at age 4. He made his public debut at age 8 and played with the New York Philharmonic under Pierre...
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| x Hélène Grimaud |
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European Classical music | Chopin & Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas (feat. piano: Hélène Grimaud) |
Hélène Grimaud (born November 7, 1969) is a French pianist.
She was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is descended from Sephardi Jews from Corsica on her mother's side and from Berber Jews on her father's side. She has stated that as a child she...
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| x Artur Rodziński |
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European Classical music |
Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music.
Artur Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on January 1, 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the...
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| x André Watts |
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European Classical music | Andre Watts plays Liszt |
André Watts (born June 20, 1946) is a classical pianist and Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University. Born in Nürnberg, Germany, Watts is the son of a Hungarian mother, Maria Alexandra Gusmits, who played the piano, and African...
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| x Adrien-Francois Servais |
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European Classical music |
Adrien François Servais (June 6, 1807–November 26, 1866) was one of the most influential cellists of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Halle, Belgium.
Servais was originally trained as a violinist before switching to the cello later on...
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| x Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Oslo |
The Oslo-Filharmonien (Oslo Philharmonic) is a symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra was founded in 1919, and has since 1977 had its home in the Oslo Concert Hall. The orchestra consists of 69 musicians in the string section, 16 in...
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| x Yang Xuefei |
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European Classical music |
Yang Xuefei (simplified Chinese: 杨雪霏; traditional Chinese: 楊雪霏; pinyin: Yáng Xuěfēi; born March 15, 1977 in Beijing, China) is an award-winning Chinese classical guitarist.
Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive...
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| x Nancy Honeytree | Christian music | Fort Wayne |
Nancy Honeytree (born Nancy Henigbaum 1952) is an American Christian musician.
Honeytree was born into a family of professional classical musicians. Honeytree (a translation from German of her family name) was drawn toward the hippie kids at school....
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| x Jack Gibbons |
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European Classical music |
Jack Gibbons (born 1962) is an English classical pianist and composer. He performs music from a wide repertoire, but has especially championed the music of Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan and George Gershwin.
Jack Gibbons has established a...
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| x Vladimir Sofronitsky | European Classical music | Russian Piano School Vol.5 (disc 2) |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Sofronitsky (or Sofronitzky, Russian: Владимир Владимирович Софроницкий, Vladimir Sofronitskij; May 8 [O.S. April 25] 1901 – August 26, 1961) was a Russian pianist, best known as an interpreter of the Russian composer...
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| Russian Piano School, Volume 5 (piano: Vladimir Sofronitsky) (disc 1) | |||||
| x Vermont Symphony Orchestra | European Classical music |
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) is a symphony orchestra based in, and supported in part by, the U.S. state of Vermont. It is a 501(c)(3) corporation. It is one of the few, and the oldest, state-supported symphony orchestras in the United States...
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| x Borodin Quartet | European Classical music | Moscow | 60th Anniversary |
The Borodin Quartet is a string quartet that was founded in 1945 in the former Soviet Union. It is one of the world's longest lasting string quartets, marking its 60th anniversary season in 2005.
The quartet were one of the Soviet Union's best-known...
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| x John Mack |
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European Classical music |
John Mack (October 30, 1927 – July 23, 2006) was a renowned American oboist.
Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music...
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| x Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Baltimore |
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a major American symphony orchestra based in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a major American orchestra.
The BSO made musical history in September 2007, when Maestra Marin...
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| x Yuri Bashmet |
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European Classical music | Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Hayashi: Viola Concerto; Takemitsu: Nostalgia |
Yuri Abramovich Bashmet (Russian: Юрий Абрамович Башмет, Ukrainian: Юрій Башмет; born 24 January, 1953) is a leading Russian conductor and violist.
In 1971, he graduated from the Lviv secondary special music school. From 1971 till 1976, he studied...
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| x Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra |
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European Classical music | Milwaukee |
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an orchestra based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its primary performing venue is the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. Founded in 1959, the MSO presents more than 150 Classics, Classical Connections, Pops,...
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| x Anoushiravan Rohani | European Classical music | Rasht |
Anoushirvan Rohani also spelled Anooshiravan Rowhani(born 1939) is an Iranian pianist and songwriter.
Born in Rasht, Iran in 1939, Anoushiravan received music lessons from his father Reza Rohani, himself a poet and violinist. Anoushiravan later...
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| x Nasrat Parsa |
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Pop music |
Nasrat Parsa (Persian: نصرت پارسا, February 22, 1968 – May 8, 2005) was a singer from Afghanistan. Up until his murder, he continued his music in exile from Hamburg, Germany, occasionally touring other countries.
Nasrat Parsa was born in a suburb of...
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| x Tereza Kesovija | Pop music | Dubrovnik |
Tereza Ana Kesovija (born October 3, 1938) is an internationally acclaimed Croatian singer, and previously an important artist of the former Yugoslavia. She also had a successful career in France.
Kesovija was born in Dubrovnik where she got her...
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| x Adam Lopez | Funk | Brisbane |
Adam Lopez Costa billed as Adam Lopez (born 26 August in Brisbane, Australia) is a pop musician, vocal coach, and session vocalist. He is noted for his ability to produce extremely high notes in his whistle register and for his extensive vocal range...
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