Classical Music In Concert

Thursday, 11 December 2025

Mancia: La Partenope - Kai Wessel

Luigi MANCIA

(c1665 - 1708 or later)

La Partenope

dramma per musica in 3 acts (Naples, 1699)

libretto: Silvio Stampiglia

Anastasiia Kolabanova*, soprano (Emilio)

Rita Rolo Morais*, soprano (Partenope)

Netta Or, soprano (Rosmira [Eurimene])

Lana Sophie Westendorf*, soprano (Arsace)

Nima Pournaghshband*, alto (Armindo)

Zi-Zhe Lo*, tenor (Anfrisa)

Younes Müller*, tenor (Ormonte)

Daeyeon Won*, bass-baritone (Beltramme)

(*) Students of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne

Orchestra Kairos

DIR.: KAI WESSEL

recorded: Sept 5, 2025, Studio WDR, Cologne

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: WDR3 (Cologne) (stream)

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(01) act 1 (pt 1) [49'16"]

(02) act 1 (pt 2) & act 2 (pt 1) [30'10"]

(03) act 2 (pt 2) & act 3 (pt 1) [27'23"]

(04) act 3 (pt 2) [24'45"]

Picture: The Fountain of the Spinacorona, a depiction of Parthenope in Naples

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Pathenope

Luigi Mancia

Anastasiia Kolabanova

Rita Rolo Morais

Netta Or

Lana Sophie Westendorf

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Vier ernste Gesänge op. 121

Tuesday, 9 December 2025

Brahms: Vocal music & Symphony No. 1 - Stéphane Degout & Raphaël Pichon

Johannes BRAHMS

(1833 - 1897)

Vocal music & Symphony No. 1

Pygmalion

Stéphane Degout, baritone

DIR.: RAPHAËL PICHON

recorded: Nov 22, 2025, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: NPO Klassiek (NL) (stream)

Programme (NL) with lyrics included [pdf]

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(01) Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?, op. 74,1 [11'15"]

Vier ernste Gesänge, op. 121 (orchestration: Robert Percival) [17'20"]

(02) Denn es gehet dem Menschen wie dem Vieh [04'38"]

(03) Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle [04'24"]

(04) O Tod, wie bitter bist du [03'36"]

(05) Wenn ich mit Menschen- und mit Engelszungen redete [04'42"]

(06) Geistliches Lied, op. 30 (orchestration: Robert Percival) [06'12"]

(07) Schicksalslied, op. 54 [14'39"]

Symphony No. 1 in c minor, op. 68 [40'47"]

(08) un poco sostenuto - allegro [13'43"]

(09) andante sostenuto [08'04"]

(10) un poco allegretto e grazioso [04'13"]

(11) adagio - più andante - allegro non troppo, ma con brio [14'47"]

[encore]

Fest- und Gedenksprüche, op. 109:

(12) Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk [05'55"]

Picture: autograph of Symphony No. 1

links:

Motets op. 74

Geistliches Lied op. 30

Schicksalslied op. 54

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Sunday, 7 December 2025

Mattheson & Telemann: Magnificat, cantata & oratorio - Michael Alexander Willens

Johann MATTHESON

Georg Philipp TELEMANN

Magnificat, cantata & oratorio

Nicki Kennedy, Anna Crookes*, soprano

Ursula Eittinger, Dorothee Merkel*, contralto

Andreas Post, Sven Hansen*, tenor

Stephan MacLeod, Johannes Gsänger*, bass

Kölner Akademie

DIR.: MICHAEL ALEXANDER WILLENS

(*) ripienists

recorded: Nov 8, 2009, Deutschlandfunk (Kammermusiksaal), Cologne

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 230 kbps)

source: Deutschlandfunk

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Johann MATTHESON (1681-1764)

(1) Deutsches Magnificat (Meine Seele erhebt den Herren) [19'26"]

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681-1767)

(2) In deinem Wort und Sacrament (TWV 1,931),

cantata for the 1st Sunday of Advent [14'08"]

Johann MATTHESON

(3) Die heilsame Geburt und Menschwerdung unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi,

oratorio [35'16"]

Picture: Birth of Christ (Antoine Pesne, 1745)

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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre - scores

Friday, 5 December 2025

Women4Baroque - Spirit of Musicke

Women4Baroque

Spirit of Musicke

recorded: June 6, 2025, Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg (A)

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 192 kbps)

source: ORF1 (Vienna) (stream)

Maria Loos, recorder

Lukas Praxmarer, violin

Gabriele Ruhland, viola da gamba, cello

Veronika Braß, harpsichord

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MRS PHILARMONICA (fl 1715)

(01) Sonata I in d minor [05'14"]

Isabella LEONARDA (1620-1704)

(02) Sonata I, op. 16,1 [09'40"]

Élisabeth JACQUET DE LA GUERRE (1665-1729)

(03) Sonata No. 5 in a minor [09'31"]

Anna BON DI VENEZIA (1738-after 1767)

(04) Sonata I in C, op. 1,1 (allegro) -

Sonata I in C, op. 2,1 (largo) -

Sonata I in C, op. 1,1 (presto) [06'16"]

Élisabeth JACQUET DE LA GUERRE

(05) Sonata in D [06'12"]

Marianna MARTINES (1744-1812)

Sonata da cimbalo in G:

(06) allegro brillante [03'31"]

WILHELMINE OF BAYREUTH (1709-1758)

(07) Sonata in a minor [05'29"]

MRS PHILARMONICA

(08) Sonata II in F [05'59"]

[encore]

MRS PHILARMONICA

Sonata VI in G:

(09) largo e staccato [02'13"]

Picture: Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

links:

Mrs Philarmonica - scores

Isabella Leonarda - score

Anna Bon di Venezia - scores

Marianna Martines - score

Wilhelmine of Bayreuth

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Choeur de Chambre de Namur

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Handel: Acis and Galatea - Leonardo García Alarcón

George Frideric HANDEL

(1685 - 1759)

Acis and Galatea

masque in 2 acts (version Cannons, 1718) (HWV 49a/b)

libretto: John Gay

Charlotte Bowden (Galatea), soprano

Valerio Contaldo (Damon), tenor

Guy Cutting (Acis), tenor

Staffan Liljas (Polyphemus), bass

Choeur de Chambre de Namur

Cappella Mediterranea

DIR.: LEONARDO GARCÍA ALARCÓN

recorded: Oct 10, 2025, Grand Manège, Namur

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: NPO Klassiek (NL)

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(01) act 1'[40'06"]

(02) act 2 [54'46"]

Picture: Acis and Galatea (Jacob van Schuppen, c1730)

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Cappella Mediterranea

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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Tuesday, 2 December 2025

Mayer: Overture, Piano concerto, Symphony - Alexander Melnikov, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Emilie MAYER

(1812 - 1883)

Overture, Piano concerto & Symphony

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Alexander Melnikov, fortepiano

[Blüthner, 1850s]

DIR.: BERNHARD FORCK

recorded: Oct 28, 2025, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

period instruments

flac (original bitrate: 192 kbps AAC)

source: Deutschlandfunk Kultur (stream)

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(01) Overture No. 2 in D [09'15"]

(maestoso - andantino - andante maestoso - allegro)

Concerto for pianoforte and orchestra in B flat [28'50"]

(02) [allegro] [12'46"]

(03) un poco adagio [06'03"]

(04) allegretto - adagio - tempo I - adagio - vivace [10'01"]

Symphony No. 3 in C 'Militair' [31'27"]

(05) adagio - allegro con brio [10'32"]

(06) un poco adagio [07'00"]

(07) scherzo. allegro [05'52"]

(08) finale militair. adagio - allegro vivace [08'03"]

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Sunday, 30 November 2025

JS & CPE Bach: Magnificat - Pablo Heras-Casado

Johann Sebastian & Carl Philipp Emanuel

BACH

Magnificat

Núria Rial, soprano

Shira Patchornik, soprano

Sophie Harmsen, contralto

Michael Schade, tenor

Johannes Kammler, bass

Collegium Vocale 1704

Concentus musicus Wien

DIR.: PABLO HERAS-CASADO

recorded: June 6, 2025, Stiftskirche, Melk

[Barocktage Stift Melk 2025]

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 320 kbps)

source: RTBF (Brussels)

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

(01) Magnificat in D (BWV 243) [26'19"]

Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788)

(02) Magnificat in D (Wq 215 / H 772) [36'08"]

Picture: Madonna of the Magnificat (detail) (Sandro Botticelli, 1445–1510)

links:

JS Bach, Magnificat - score

CPE Bach, Magnificat - score

Collegium Vocale 1704

Concentus musicus Wien

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Friday, 28 November 2025

Biblical heroines - Shira Patchornik & Ottavio Dantone

Biblical heroines

Shira Patchornik, soprano

Accademia Bizantina

DIR.: OTTAVIO DANTONE

recorded: June 7, 2025, Stift Melk (Kolomanisaal)

[Barocktage Stift Melk 2025]

period instruments

flac (original bitrate: 320 kbps AAC

source: RAI3 (Rome) (podcast)

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Alessandro SCARLATTI (1660-1725)

Cain, overo Il primo omicidio:

(01) sinfonia [03'46"]

(02) Di serpe ingannator - Caro sposo, prole amata, rec & aria [06'18"]

(03) Ferma del figlio mio – Madre tenera, rec & aria [05'35"]

Alessandro STRADELLA (1643-1682)

Esule dalle sfere:

(04) sinfonia [02'31"]

(05) Su, su spariscano [02'46"]

(06) A cor supplicante [04'16"]

Antonio CALDARA (1670-1736)

La morte d'Abel figura di quella del nostro Redentore:

(07) sinfonia [05'10"]

(08) Sento che il gran contento [05'02"]

Alessandro SCARLATTI

(09) Concerto grosso No 5 in d minor (R. 533b) [05'52"]

Nicola Antonio PORPORA (1686-1768)

Davide e Bersabea:

(10) Bel Pianeta de' fulgidi rai [08'24"]

Pasquale CAFARO (1716-1787)

La Betulia liberata:

(11) Del pari infeconda [07'05"]

Antonio VIVALDI (1671-1743)

(12) Concerto for viola d'amore, strings and bc in d minor (RV 394) [11'34"]

Juditha triumphans (RV 644):

(13) Si fulgida per te [04'29"]

(14) Armatae face et anguibus [03'45"]

Picture: Judith with the head of Holofernes (Cristofano Allori, 1577 - 1621)

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Alessandro Stradella

Antonio Caldara

Nicola Antonio Porpora

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Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Funeral music - Netherlands Bach Society (Lionel Meunier)

Funeral music

Netherlands Bach Society

DIR.: LIONEL MEUNIER

recorded: Nov 4, 2025, Musis, Arnhem (NL)

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: NPO Klassiek (stream)

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Henry PURCELL (1659-1695)

(01) Hear my prayer, O Lord (Z 15) [02'02"]

Henry PURCELL / Thomas MORLEY (1557/58-1602)

Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Henry PURCELL

(02) The Queen's Funeral March (Z 860) [06'12"]

Thomas MORLEY

(03) [The First Dirge Anthem] [05'23"]

I am the resurrection and the life

I know that my Redeemer liveth

We brought nothing into this world

[The Second Dirge Anthem]

(04) Man that is born of a woman [01'13"]

(05) In the midst of life we are in death [01'38"]

Henry PURCELL

(06) Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our heart (Z 58b) [01'56"]

(07) Canzona (Z 860) [01'46"]

[The Third Dirge Anthem]

Thomas MORLEY

(08) I heard a voice from heav'n [01'41"]

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Johann Michael BACH (1648-1694)

(09) Ich weiss, dass mein Erlöser lebt (JMB 4) [03'22"]

Johann Christoph BACH (1642-1703)

(10) Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren (JCB 5) [04'05"]

(11) Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig (JCB 14) [13'15"]

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Johann Joseph FUX (1660-1741)

Requiem in c minor 'Kaiserrequiem' (K 51-53) [40'25"]

(12) Introitus [06'28"]

(13) Kyrie [03'16"]

(14) Sequenza [15'19"]

(15) Offertorium [04'49"]

(16) Sanctus - Benedictus - Hosanna [03'28"]

(17) Agnus Dei [01'53"]

(18) Communio [05'12"]

links:

Thomas Morley

Johann Michael Bach

Johann Christoph Bach

Johann Joseph Fux

Netherlands Bach Society

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Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Salieri: La grotta di Trofonio - Rüdiger Lotter

Antonio SALIERI

(1750 - 1825)

La grotta di Trofonio

dramma giocoso in two acts (Vienna, 1785)

libretto: Giovanni Battista Casti

Elisabeth Freyhoff, soprano (Dori)

Maria Hegele, mezzo-soprano (Ofelia)

Jorge Navarro Colorado, tenor (Plistene)

Jan Petryka, tenor (Artemidoro)

Nikolay Borchev, baritone (Trofonio)

Jonas Müller, baritone (Aristone)

Hofkapelle München Choir & Orchestra

DIR.: RÜDIGER LOTTER

recorded: Nov 16, 2025, Kulturzentrum, Herne

[Tage alter Musik Herne 2025]

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: WDR3 (Cologne) (stream)

Libretto included [pdf]

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(01) act 1 [1.17'43"]

(02) act 2 [1.14.36"]

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La grotta di Trofonio

score

Elisabeth Freyhoff

Maria Hegele

Jorge Navarro Colorado

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Victoria, Gaudent in caelis (score)

Sunday, 23 November 2025

Eternity - New York Polyphony

Eternity

New York Polyphony

recorded: June 2, 2024, St Ursula, Cologne

lossless (flac)

source: WDR3 (Cologne) (stream)

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Tomás Luis DE VICTORIA (1548-1611)

(01) Gaudent in caelis

anon

[ms Cambridge]

(02) Magno gaudens gaudio

(03) Ad cantus laetitiae

(04) In natali novi regis

[Worcester fragments]

(05) Flos regalis

(06) Gloria / Spiritus procedens a Patre

(07) Sanctus

(08) Agnus Dei

(09) Beata viscera

William BYRD (c1540-1623

Mass for 4 voices:

(10) Kyrie

(11) Gloria

(12) Ecce quam bonum

Mass for 4 voices:

(13) Credo

Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA (1525-1594)

(14) Sicut cervus (1. Pars) - Sitivit anima mea (2. Pars)

William BYRD

Mass for 4 voices:

(15) Sanctus - Benedictus

(16) Agnus Dei

Giovanni Pierluigi DA PALESTRINA

(17) Gaudent in caelis

Johann CRÜGER (1598-1662)

(18) O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

(19) O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (after BWV 20)

Picture: Enthroned Madonna and Child between Angels, c500/560

(Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy)

links:

Worcester Fragments

Byrd, Mass for 4 voices (score)

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Saturday, 22 November 2025

Handel: Alexander's Feast - Peter Whelan

Saint Cecilia's Day

George Frideric HANDEL

(1685 - 1759)

Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music

Ode in three parts (version Dublin, 1742) (HWV 75)

libretto: Newburgh Hamilton (after John Dryden)

Hilary Cronin, soprano

Hugh Cutting, alto

Stuart Jackson, tenor

Irish Baroque Orchestra & Chorus

DIR.: PETER WHELAN

recorded: August 30, 2025, Royal Albert Hall, London

[BBC Proms 2025]

period instruments

flac

sources: BBC Radio 3/RAI Radio 3

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(01) Part 1 [52'25"]

(02) Part 2 [34'57"]

(03) Part 3 [13'00"]

Picture: Saint Cecilia (Jacques Stella, 1596-1657)

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Irish Baroque Orchestra

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"Newly discovered organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach"

Thursday, 20 November 2025

JS Bach: Ciaconas BWV 1178 & 1179 - Ton Koopman

Johann Sebastian BACH

(1685 - 1750)

Ciaconas BWV 1078 & 1079

Ton Koopman, organ

recorded: Nov 17, 2025, Thomaskirche, Leipzig

flac

original bitrate: 128 kbps AAC

The first performance of two organ works which were discovered in the 1990s,

and after thorough research could be attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach.

They date from his time in Arnstadt (1703-1707).

The presentation is available at YouTube.

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(01) Ciacona in d minor (BWV 1178) [06'38"]

(02) Ciacona in g minor (BWV 1179) [04'03"]

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"Emilie Mayer’s Stunning Symphonies"

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Mayer: Overtures & symphonies - Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Emilie MAYER

(1812 - 1883)

Overtures & symphonies

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

DIR.: BERNHARD FORCK

recorded: Oct 24, 2025, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

period instruments

mp3 (bitrate: 192 kbps AAC)

source: Deutschlandfunk Kultur (stream)

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(01) Overture in d minor [08'27"]

Symphony No. 1 in c minor [32'57"]

(02) adagio - allegro energico [09'57"]

(03) adagio [07'05"]

(04) allegro vivace [06'38"]

(05) finale. adagio - allegro [09'18"]

(06) Overture in C [10'16"]

Symphony No. 2 in e minor [33'48"]

(07) un poco adagio - allegro assai [14'01"]

(08) scherzo [06'37"]

(09) un poco adagio cantabile [05'55"]

(10) finale. allegro vivace [07'15"]

links:

Emilie Mayer

scores

project

"Emilie Mayer's Faust Overture and Symphony No. 1 in C"

"Composer Emilie Mayer: Was She the Female Beethoven?"

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

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La Capella Ducale & Musica Fiata

Sunday, 16 November 2025

Monteverdi: Messa per Santa Maria Salute - Roland Wilson

Claudio MONTEVERDI

(1567 - 1643)

Messa per Santa Maria Salute

La Capella Ducale

Musica Fiata

DIR.: ROLAND WILSON

recorded: June 22, 2025, Basilika St. Ursula, Cologne

[Romanischer Sommer 2025]

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: WDR3 (Cologne) (stream)

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(01) Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius [04'46"]

(02) Kyrie a 4 da capella [02'47"]

(03) Gloria a 4 da capella [12'19"]

(04) Jubilet tota civitas à voce sola in dialogo [04'37"]

(05) Credo à 8 voci concertato (ed. Roland Wilson) [16'37"]

(06) Ab aeterno ordinata sum voce sola in basso [06'45"]

(07) Sanctus - Benedictus [04'10"]

(08) Salve regina - Audi coelum con dentro un ecco,

voce sola risposta d‘ecco e due violini [09'09"]

(09) Agnus Dei da capella [03'13"]

(10) Pianto della Madonna à voce sola [07'38"]

(11) Laetaniae della Beata Vergine à due cori [08'50"]

Picture: Venice supplicating the Virgin Mary to intercede with Christ

for the Cessation of the Plague, 1630–31 (Domenico Robusti)

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Beethoven, Piano concerto No. 1 - score

Friday, 14 November 2025

Beethoven & Tchaikovsky: Concerto & symphony - Piotr Anderszewski & John Eliot Gardiner

Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY

Piano concerto & symphony

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Académie d'Orchestre

Piotr Anderszewski, piano

DIR.: JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

recorded: July 16, 2024, Le Corum - Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier

[Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier 2024]

modern instruments, period style

lossless (flac)

source: WDR3 (Cologne) (stream)

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Carl Maria VON WEBER (1786-1826)

(01) Overture Oberon [09'55"]

Ludwig VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Concerto for pianoforte No. 1 in C, op. 15 [34'02"]

(02) allegro con brio [14'40"]

(03) largo [10'16"]

(04) rondo. allegro scherzando [09'06"]

Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)

Symphony No. 2 in c minor, op. 17 [35'06"]

(05) andante sostenuto - allegro vivo [11'08"]

(06) andantino marziale, quasi moderato [07'08"]

(07) scherzo. allegro molto vivace - trio [05'08"]

(08) finale. moderato assai – allegro vivo – presto [11'42"]

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Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 2 - score

Piotr Anderszewski

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

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