![Frédérique Peters – Chopin & Beethoven: A Piano Recital by Frédérique Peters (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/07/03/x2xseh0jqfvhb_600.md.jpg)
Frédérique Peters – Chopin & Beethoven: A Piano Recital by Frédérique Peters (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgian-American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musicians and premiered works by then relatively untried American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond, that are now widely played and celebrated. She also edited and published the ground-breaking newsletter, Women in Music, which highlighted the activities of professional women musicians throughout the ages
![Felix Slatkin – Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne & Symphonic Dances by Felix Slatkin (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/27/qb8vwh3wnjs1a_600.md.jpg)
Felix Slatkin – Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne & Symphonic Dances by Felix Slatkin (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Felix Slatkin (December 22, 1915 – February 8, 1963) was an American violinist and conductor.
Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a Jewish family originally named Zlotkin (though it is not certain) from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine.[2][3] He began studying the violin at the age of nine with Isadore Grossman. He began working professionally at the age of ten and won a scholarship to the Curtis Institute, where he studied violin with Efrem Zimbalist and conducting with Fritz Reiner.
![Felix Ayo – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons by Felix Ayo (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/26/dg69b3a7qrvza_600.md.jpg)
Felix Ayo – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons by Felix Ayo (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Felix Ayo (born 1933, Sestao) is a Spanish born, naturalised Italian, violinist. He is renowned as a founder of the Italian ensemble I Musici; as an internationally renowned violinist, who is often a soloist, and is a performer of chamber music; as a teacher; and as a recording artist with a career that has spanned more than fifty years.
![Fritz Busch – Mozart: Così fan tutte by Fritz Busch (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/05/18/b7u8zaipuq4ca_600.md.jpg)
Fritz Busch – Mozart: Così fan tutte by Fritz Busch (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Fritz Busch (1890-1951) was one the greatest German conductors of the first half of the twentieth century, noted for his illuminating performances and his ethical principles. His father was a former itinerant musician who became an instrument maker, and his brothers were violinist Adolf Busch and cellist Hermann Busch. Fritz Busch went to Cologne Conservatory in 1909, studying conducting with Steinbach.
![Eugene Ormandy – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1,2,7 & Orchestral Works by Eugene Ormandy (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/11/b892y5mlah7kb_600.md.jpg)
Eugene Ormandy – Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1,2,7 & Orchestral Works by Eugene Ormandy (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Has any musical reputation in the classical music world suffered more than Ormandy’s? I doubt it. Collectors can sneer all they want at the outdated styles of playing that Karajan and Bernstein brought to the party, but they buy the endless reissues all the same. Toscanini still sets a gold standard for many, and Stokowski is weird and famous enough to continue capturing hearts and minds. I’m not sure what Ormandy did wrong; he was a champion of new music, possibly the world’s greatest accompanist, and loved the world over. And then he died. Maybe that was it. In all seriousness, his musical achievements are worth hearing, and he was a persuasive advocate of Sibelius, among others.
![Eric Heidsieck – Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/21/r7yxh5urdp3ka_600.md.jpg)
Eric Heidsieck – Mozart: Sonata in D Major for Two Pianos, K. 448 (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Éric Charles Heidsieck (born 21 August 1936) is a French classical pianist.
Born in Reims, Heidsieck gave his first recital at the age of nine and his first concert with orchestra a year later.
He studied with Marcel Ciampi then Alfred Cortot and followed Wilhelm Kempff’s lessons on Beethoven.
In 1959, he won the Grand Prix du Disque (EMI) for the recording of Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 and No. 24. The following year, he and his wife Tania, also a pianist, founded a duo that shone on stages around the world.
In 1969, Heidsieck was the first French pianist of the 20th century to give, by memory and in public, Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, which he recorded with EMI Classics between 1970 and 1974 and again ten years later, then in 1997. He specializes in the performance and recording of integrals.
![Edwin Fischer – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 by Edwin Fischer (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/28/ixz84p1jzvb3b_600.md.jpg)
Edwin Fischer – Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books 1 & 2 by Edwin Fischer (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]
Edwin Fischer’s recording of the ’48’ was the first by a pianist of the set, and probably remains the finest of all.
Fischer might have agreed with András Schiff that Bach is the ‘most romantic of all composers’, for his superfine musicianship seems to live and breathe in another world. His sonority is as ravishing as it’s apt, never beautiful for its own sake, and graced with a pedal technique so subtle that it results in a light and shade, a subdued sparkle or pointed sense of repartee that eludes lesser artists. No matter what complexity Bach throws at him, Fischer resolves it with a disarming poise and limpidity. All this is a far cry from, say, Glenn Gould’s egotism in the ’48’. Fischer showed a deep humility before great art, making the singling out of one or another of his performances an impertinence.
![Edwin Fischer – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Edwin Fischer (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/05/05/eujipg7vp2luc_600.md.jpg)
Edwin Fischer – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 by Edwin Fischer (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Edwin Fischer (6 October 1886 – 24 January 1960) was a Swiss classical pianist and conductor. He is regarded as one of the great interpreters of J.S. Bach and Mozart in the twentieth century.
![Eileen Joyce – Grieg: Piano Concerto by Eileen Joyce (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/06/14/ubv74xi36y7lc_600.md.jpg)
Eileen Joyce – Grieg: Piano Concerto by Eileen Joyce (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Eileen Joyce, whose talent as a pianist was discovered by Percy Grainger in childhood, began studying with Artur Schnabel and Robert Teichmüller at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1927. In 1930 she was introduced to conductor Henry Wood, who arranged for her debut as a concert pianist at one of his well-known Promenade Concerts. She subsequently became both a well-known concert pianist and a recognized pianist for radio concerts. During World War II, she performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of conductor Malcolm Sargent in numerous cities in Britain destroyed by the bombardments of the German Luftwaffe.
![Erich Kleiber – Johann Strauss II: The Waltzes by Erich Kleiber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/11/m986axhjbn4kb_600.md.jpg)
Erich Kleiber – Johann Strauss II: The Waltzes by Erich Kleiber (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]
Erich Kleiber wurde am 5. Aug. 1890 in Wien geboren. Als seine Eltern, der Gymnasialprofessor Franz Otto Kleiber und seine Frau Vroni Kleiber, noch während seiner frühen Kindheit kurz hintereinander starben, lebten Erich Kleiber und seine Schwester ab 1896 in Prag beim Vater der Mutter, dem Kutschenmacher Johannes Schöppl. Nachdem dieser bald darauf ebenfalls gestorben war, kehrte Kleiber 1900 nach Wien zurück, wo er – nun bei einer Tante wohnend – das Gymnasium besuchte. In diese Zeit fällt seine erste intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Musiktheater, besuchte er doch – durch sein Elternhaus mit keiner besonderen musikalischen Ausbildung versehen, aber früh an das Klavier- und Orgelspiel seines musikbegeisterten Vaters gewöhnt – bereits als Schüler zahlreiche Opernaufführungen in der von Gustav Mahler geleiteten Wiener Hofoper. Nach der Matura 1908, die er gemeinsam mit Hans Gál ablegte, verließ Kleiber Wien, um in Prag (vermutlich an der deutschen Universität) Philosophie, Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte zu studieren und sich für die Aufnahmeprüfung am dortigen Konservatorium vorzubereiten, die er kurz darauf bestand. Gegen Ende seiner Studienzeit übernahm Kleiber Aufträge als unbezahlter Volontär am Deutschen Theater Prag sowie als Klavierbegleiter, ehe er schließlich 1912 am Hoftheater Darmstadt seinen ersten Kapellmeisterposten antrat.
![Emil Gilels – Scarlatti: 26 Keyboard Sonatas by Emil Gilels (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/11/z56p7cm1rtf6b_600.md.jpg)
Emil Gilels – Scarlatti: 26 Keyboard Sonatas by Emil Gilels (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Emil Grigoryevich Gilels[a] (19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Russian pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Gilels was born to a Jewish family on 19 October 1916 (6 October, Old Style) in Odessa (then part of the Russian Empire, and now Ukraine) to Gesya and Grigory Gilels. His father worked as a clerk in a sugar refinery. His sister Elizaveta, three years his junior, was a renowned violinist.
Emil Gilels and his sister, the violinist Elizabeth.
![(Dame) Janet Baker – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 by Dame Janet Baker (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/18/00929cb8.md.jpg)
(Dame) Janet Baker – Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Z. 626 by Dame Janet Baker (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH, DBE, FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz’s magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Dame Janet was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder as “intimate, almost self-communing.”
![Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Beethoven: 27 Lieder by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/09/hqnif4wwfs7mc_600.md.jpg)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – Beethoven: 27 Lieder by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 44,1 kHz]
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (born May 28, 1925 in Berlin; † May 18, 2012 in Berg) was a German singer (baritone), conductor, painter, music writer and reciter. Fischer-Dieskau is considered one of the most important song and opera singers of the 20th century. With over 400 records, he is the singer whose interpretations most of the recordings on phonograms are likely to exist at all.
![Chantal Stigliani – Mozart: Andante & Adagio from Piano Sonatas by Chantal Stigliani (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/02/20/jxia60e43orha_600.md.jpg)
Chantal Stigliani – Mozart: Andante & Adagio from Piano Sonatas by Chantal Stigliani (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
The French pianist Chantal Stigliani, of Venetian origin, studied the piano at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur. In 1971 she met Yvonne Lefébure, who had a decisive influence on her career through her teaching and friendship. She won first prize in the Claude Debussy International Competition and has inherited from her teacher an understanding of the subtleties of French music. Yvonne Lefébure transmitted to her pupils the secrets of those to whom she was close from the beginning of the last century: Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, Emmanuel, Fauré and others. This is a tradition that Chantal Stigliani passes on in masterclasses. Her own eclectic tastes give pre-eminence to J.S. Bach but also to music of the twentieth century. She is often heard in recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris and in various towns in France. She has made a number of recordings for radio and gives concerts regularly in Germany, England, the United States, Canada, Holland, Bulgaria, Italy and Greece, either in chamber music or as a soloist with orchestra. She is founder of the Philomuses Association for the promotion of gifted artists from different disciplines, bringing an enrichment through contact between painters, composers and poets. In the same spirit she has set up workshops for children to introduce them to music, dance, mime, and the history of art.
![Charles Munch – Mendelssohn: Symphony 4 & 5 by Charles Munch (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/16/qdm0d9jv1cyhb_600.md.jpg)
Charles Munch – Mendelssohn: Symphony 4 & 5 by Charles Munch (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Charles Münch was the son of the Alsatian organist and choir director Ernst Münch and the organist Eugene Münch was his uncle. He studied violin at the Strasbourg Conservatory and in 1912 with Lucien Capet in Paris. One of his teachers at the Strasbourg Conservatory was Hans Pfitzner.
![Bernardino Molinari – Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni by Bernardino Molinari (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/16/gqxtyowcrstyc_600.md.jpg)
Bernardino Molinari – Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni by Bernardino Molinari (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 96 kHz]
Bernardino Molinari (11 April 1880 – 25 December 1952) was an Italian conductor.
Molinari studied under Renzi and Falchi at the Accademia (then “Liceo Musicale”) of Santa Cecilia in his home town of Rome.
![Bruno Maderna – Mahler: Symphony No. 7 ‘Das Lied Der Nacht’ by Bruno Maderna (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/05/oazc69vfatgrc_600.md.jpg)
Bruno Maderna – Mahler: Symphony No. 7 ‘Das Lied Der Nacht’ by Bruno Maderna (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
“Bruno Maderna, like his close friend and fellow avant‐garde composer Pierre Boulez, had in recent years become a conductor of international reputation. Since his debut here in 1970 conducting Mercadante’s opera II GIURAMENTO at the Juilliard School, Mr. Maderna had led the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony and the Detroit Symphony. In Europe he had conducted widely, including the London Symphony, the B.B.C. Symphony and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. For the last two years of his life he was music director of the Italian Radio in Milan.
![Arthur Rubinstein – Chopin: 4 Scherzos & 4 Ballades by Arthur Rubinstein (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/08/03/c3hs4qkt74vwb_600.md.jpg)
Arthur Rubinstein – Chopin: 4 Scherzos & 4 Ballades by Arthur Rubinstein (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Arthur Rubinstein (Polish: Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) was a Polish-American pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music written by a variety of composers and many regard him as one of the greatest Chopin interpreters of his time. He played in public for eight decades.
![André Cluytens – Wagner: Overtures, Preludes & Aria by André Cluytens (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/02/19/ukdzg9roldbtc_600.md.jpg)
André Cluytens – Wagner: Overtures, Preludes & Aria by André Cluytens (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 44,1 kHz]
André Cluytens (pronunciation: [ɑn’dreː ‘klœytəns]) (born March 26, 1905 in Antwerp – † June 3, 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a Belgian-French conductor.
![André Cluytens – Bizet: Carmen by André Cluytens (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/01/y97rxzykxneoa_600.md.jpg)
André Cluytens – Bizet: Carmen by André Cluytens (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
André Cluytens (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe klɥitɛ̃s], Dutch pronunciation: [ɑn’dreː ‘klœytəns]; born Augustin Zulma Alphonse Cluytens; 26 March 1905 – 3 June 1967) was a Belgian-born French conductor who was active in the concert hall, opera house and recording studio. His repertoire extended from Viennese classics through French composers to 20th century works. Although much of his career was spent in France, he was the first French conductor at Bayreuth in 1955; he also conducted The Ring and Parsifal at La Scala.