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You can see Elīna Garanča during the recording session of the Deutsche Grammophon "Mozart Album", May 2006:
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Seán wrote:Ms Elina Garanca, beautiful:


Seán, did you know that song comes from the opera "The Bohemian Girl" which was written by an Irishman, Michael William Balfe?
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fergus wrote:
Seán wrote:Ms Elina Garanca, beautiful:


Seán, did you know that song comes from the opera "The Bohemian Girl" which was written by an Irishman, Michael William Balfe?
Thanks Fergus, I know that it was written by a chap called Balfe but I didn't know that it was from an opera, I am ignorant about such things. I must say that Ms Garanca is enchanting.
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Abbado on his recording the Beethoven Symphonies with the BPO:

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This is a gorgeous performance of Mozart's last piano concerto:



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 27 B flat major
1. Allegro
2. Larghetto in E-flat major 13:58
3. Allegro 20:40

Maria Joao Pires, piano
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Trevor Pinnock conducting.
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Thanks for posting these Seán!
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Aleg wrote:

Enjoy and be amazed ...
I thoroughly enjoyed that video Aleg, thank you. Alma Deutscher, what can I say? What an extraordinarily talented child she is, a wonderful force of nature, she is a beautiful precious talent. I hope that life is good to her.
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Bernstein on Mozart's Symphony # 40 in G minor
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One of my favourite orchestras performing music by Bach, this is as good as it gets:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra


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