Saturday Night Music – Brahms' Symphony No. 2

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2019)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897)

Symphony No. 2

Saturday Night Music – Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition


Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881)

Pictures at an Exhibition

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2019)

Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

Voice of a Century

 

 Maria Callas (2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977)

Saturday Night Music – Moon Song*

Asmik Grigorian * 12 May 1981

Rusalka

Antonin Dvořák (8 September 1848 – 1 May 1904)

* for Paula @ el racó de sa luna ;-)

Saturday Night Music – The Age of Anxiety

Basque National Orchestra

The Age of Anxiety

Yulianna Avdeeva *3 July 1985

Leonard Bernstein (25 August 1916 – 14 October 1990)

Saturday Night Music – Piano Sonata No.1

Last weekend Mark rhapsodised over Yulianna Avdeeva: "On Shostakovich piano sonata no.1, honestly she is super human!!!"
Voilà, Mark, here she is (not only) for you ... ;-)

Yulianna Avdeeva *3 July 1985

Dmitri Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975)

Saturday Night Music – Eighth Day

Hazel O'Connor *16 May 1954

Saturday Night Music – Gulda & Hancock

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

Herbie Hancock *12 April 1940

Saturday Night Music – Gulda plays Mozart

 

Friedrich Gulda (16 May 1930 – 27 January 2000)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) 

Saturday Night Music – Fazil Say

Fazil Say *14 January 1970

Saturday Night Music – Maria Farantouri

Maria Farantouri *28 November 1947

Mikis Theodorakis (29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021)

Saturday Night Music – Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007)

Saturday Night Music – Luciano Pavarotti

 

Luciano Pavarotti (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007)

Saturday Night Music – Itzhak Perlman

 Itzhak Perlman * 31 August 1945

Saturday Night Music – Iva Bittová

 

Alfred Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998)
Iva Bittová *22 July 1958

Saturday Night Music – Canto General

Pablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973)

Canto General

Mikis Theodorakis (12 July 1925 – 2 September 2021)

Maria Farantouri * 28 November 1947

Saturday Night Music – Sergiu Celibidache/Bolero

Sergiu Celibidache (11 July 1912 – 14 August 1996)

Saturday Night Music – The Impossible Dream

 Bryn Terfel *9 November 1965

Saturday Night Music – Pictures at an Expedition

Pictures at an Expedition

Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881)

Evgeny Kissin * 10 October 1971

Saturday Night Music – The Great Gate of Kiev

The Bogatyr Gates or The Great Gate of Kiev
from Pictures at an Expedition

Modest Mussorgsky (21 March 1839 – 28 March 1881)

Viktor Hartmann (5 May 1834 – 4 August 1873