Bruch: Jubilate, Amen op.3. Sung by Cheryl Studer with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Ambrosian Singers.

https://youtu.be/9mnoAiG3uUg

 

Franz Liszt - Transcendental Etude No. 5 (Feux Follets)

Played by Evgeny Kissin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsggmCF1Cys

Paganini - Etude No. 3 (La Campanella)

Arranged by Franz Liszt

Played by Evgeny Kissin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naaebgU0rLo

 

Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir

Flute: Kenneth Smith

Piano: Matthew Schellhorn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhEHsGrRfyY

 


@papermoon.lady wrote:

Franz Liszt - Transcendental Etude No. 5 (Feux Follets)

Played by Evgeny Kissin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsggmCF1Cys


It's fantastic in the best sense of the word. Exciting and full of hurtling (but never uncontrolled) cascades.

 

I thnk my favourite is György Cziffra - https://youtu.be/ITROC-Dn9zo - but I love Trifanov playing all of these as well... (https://youtu.be/enGs1nAFNa4), and Lazar Berman (https://youtu.be/9wkYT7CSpsU), ... and I nearly forgot Boris Berezovsky - https://youtu.be/wc1nu3Z5xVQ - playing like the Angel Gabriel.

 

What a piece!


@papermoon.lady wrote:

Paganini - Etude No. 3 (La Campanella)

Arranged by Franz Liszt

Played by Evgeny Kissin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naaebgU0rLo

 


Gorgeous - I can hear those bells in the upper register. Kissin's clean technique and interpretative heart are amazing.

Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.22. Played by Bertrand Chamayou, with Orchestre National de France, cond. Krivine.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLbLjxOu7tafrhsUnh-c7voLKHSKetOK

This is extremely fine playing. There isn't a subtlety overlooked.

Handel: Where'er you walk (from Semele). Sung by John Mark Ainsley.

https://youtu.be/BYOZnwQQV18

 

Charpentier: Depuis le jour (from Louise). Sung by Mirella Freni.

https://youtu.be/BowtHopXu4w

 

(My favourite recording of this aria.)

For a 9-year old she was pretty good. 

(The singing starts at about 2:40.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEMR3A4WLC8