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Beethoven\ Beethoven's Tempest Sonata mvt. 1 -- Wilhelm Kempff
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 311 seconds

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Opus 31 No. 2
go to movement 3 for a bio of Kempff
"Just read Shakespeare's The Tempest", said Beethoven when he was asked about this piece (and the Appassionata, Op. 57)---So reports Anton Schindler, who is not the most trustworthy source.

recorded in Paris, 1968

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Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 2nd mvt--Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symp
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 546 seconds

Telecast March 22, 1952 from Carnegie Hall, New York City

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Dizzy Gillespie - \"Salt Peanuts\" -  1947 Dizzy Gillespie - "Salt Peanuts" - 1947
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 235 seconds

Dizzy played for Lucky Millinder's band in the early '40s. It was a riff this band played, after a Dizzy solo in the tune "Little John Special", that Dizzy developed into his tune "Salt Peanuts".
who are the sidemen here?
Is that Max Roach on drums, TheApeLad?

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Mozart - The Magic Flute - end of opera (duet and chorus) Mozart - The Magic Flute - end of opera (duet and chorus)
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 579 seconds

duet: "Papagena! Papagena!"
recitative and chorus: "Nur stille...Die Strahlen der Sonne"
Barbara Kilduff as Papagena
Manfred Hemm as Papageno
Kurt Moll as Sarastro
James Levine and the Met Orch (1991)

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Stravinsky - The Rake\ Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress - Prelude, start of opera
Posted by: TheGreatPerformers

Video duration: 561 seconds

Tom Rakewell - Jerry Hadley
Anne Trulove - Dawn Upshaw
Trulove - Jonathan Best
Nick Shadow - Monte Pederson
conducted by Sylvain Cambreling
The production was conceived and directed by Peter Mussbach with set/costume design by Jörg Immendorff.
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