We can have "Nostr Shorts" too. Today, Angela Gheorghiu as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.

Always a mood-booster, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and Valentina Lisitsa rocks it. Have a great weekend!

Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker performing Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World". (Berlin Philharmonie, 1966) Watching this black-and-white video, I can't resist asking myself how it would be for us to be able to watch Bach or Mozart, for example. 🤷

For your coffee break, Nina Simone playing "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free". (Montreux, 1976)

I say goodbye with guitars. Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin showing off with "Mediterranean Sundance". Have a fine evening!

A moment of jazz with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and Joe Henderson performing live "L's Bop" at Wolf & Rissmiller's Club in Reseda, California. (1982)

"Siegfried’s horn call." As a side note, or a "fun fact", the coincidence is that Klaus Florian Vogt was a horn player before becoming a tenor. Still, the horn that you hear is played by Giovanni Emanuele Urso, principal horn player. View quoted note →

If you've been reading the news lately, you might need regular brain cleansing, like me. For today's lunch break, Rusanda Panfili (violin) and Donka Angatscheva (piano) are playing Jules Massenet's "Meditation" from Thaïs, for Violin and Piano. (Vienna, 2016)

I wish you all a beautiful evening with a trailer from LaScalaTv (by Teatro alla Scala) for Wagner's Die Walküre - Feuerzauber.

A moment of peace with Clark Terry's "My Gal Blues". (France, 1973) Because jazz doesn't tell you when to clap...

For today's coffee break, a change of rhythm with Cochemea playing "Pyramid of the Sun", live at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.

Did you ever hear Bach's Air with a soprano? The added pop elements "scratch" me a bit, but I'm also not a pro and I shouldn't judge. That being said, let's listen to Wendy Kokkelkoren.

For your afternoon coffee, Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili playing Piazzolla's Libertango. ☕🤌

If you're looking for a suggestion, let's go with Maxim Vengerov mastering Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77. I uploaded an "amuse bouche" and added the YouTube link for the whole performance.

Let's enjoy together Chopin's "Raindrop" prelude through Daniil Trifonov's hands, it might be the most beautiful thing we listen to today.

A good way to end the day and the week, before God knows what craziness will bring us the month of March, Strauss' homage to Nietzsche, "Also sprach Zarathustra", with Gustavo Dudamel and Berliner Philharmoniker.

I don't know any other genre that can so accurately describe the inner delirium like Jazz. Now let's have a fine Sunday with Sonny Rollins playing "There Will Never Be Another You". (Denmark, 1965)

We all know Joaquín Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. What amazes me is that Rodrigo was blind and never played the guitar. That being said, here's Pablo Sáinz-Villegas playing Adagio together with Orquesta de Radio y Televisión de España, directed by Carlos Kalmar.

This is more suitable to start the day than to end it, but I keep thinking about it, so here's Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, 4th Movement, "Allegro non troppo", with Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Georg Solti.

Always a pleasure to discover beauty! I'm a "normie", so don't judge if it's the most common thing in the world. The Ouverture of Barbiere di Siviglia, a Ferdinando Carulli/Duo Savigni arrangement for fortepiano and guitar. For those passionate, Laura Savigni performs on a fortepiano "Clementi & Company" from London, circa 1820, while Enrica Savigni plays a guitar stamped "Hijos De Gonzalez", Madrid, 1860/1870.