Video duration: 640 seconds
Global video hits: 438547
Rachmaninov was of course the brilliant virtuoso we all know, but as a genious composer he has as well his place in the standard classical repertoire. Here we hear him play the adagio sostenuto from his second piano concerto. This unique recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski was made for RCA in 1929.
Video duration: 522 seconds
Global video hits: 34397
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto for Clarinet and Military Band. Special thanks to Chemistry Professor Oliver Seely at CSUDH for the arrangment. You can download the finale score at http://www.csudh.edu /oliver/clarmusi/cla rmusi.htm
Video duration: 605 seconds
Global video hits: 107034
Ayako Uehara is soloist with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit (NHK Hall, Tokyo, December 3, 2004). Uehara was 1st prize winner of the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 2002.