Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne Op 9 N1, B flat minor
Mikayel Gabrielyan (Piano)
Frédéric Chopin - Valse in H Minor, Op.69 N2
Mikayel Gabrielyan (Piano)
Christmas 2011
December 26, 2011. Happy Holidays to all!
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, which this year almost coincided with Christmas, and Happy New Year to all musicians, and classical music lovers! 
Have a wonderful holiday season, and here to celebrate we have two pieces of great music.
First, from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, aria Schlafe, mein Liebster (Sleep now, my dearest). It’s especially appropriate because it comes from the part that was written for the second day of Christmas, December 26. Schlafe, mein Liebster is performed by the English Baroque Soloists, the Monteverdi Choir under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner. Bernarda Fink is the mezzo-soprano. To listen, click here.
We couldn’t find any appropriate classical music to celebrate Hanukkah. In the 3rd movement of his First Symphony, Mahler uses a Jewish folk tune, which he even orchestrated to sound like a klezmer band (it comes after the famous Frère Jacques quote). This is as close as we could come. The complete 3rd movement is here. Lorin Maazel conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker. Both musical excerpts are courtesy of YouTube.
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Davide Polovineo (Piano)
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Alexander Karpeyev (Piano)
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Stravinsky arr. Agosti - Three Pieces from 'Firebird'
György Ligeti - Etude No. 4 Fanfares
Alexander Karpeyev (Piano)
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Vic Voss (Orchestra)
Frédéric Chopin - 2 Valses Op.69 N1 & Op,64 N2
Mikayel Gabrielyan (Piano)