Classical corner
The first movement of Maurice Ravel's piano suite, Gaspard de la Nuit, performed by Seong-Jin Cho.Bonus video! Yet another musical instrument I had never heard of. Source link
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Classical corner
French baroque-period composer Jean-Féry Rebel's "Le Cahos" from his ballet Les élémens. The opening sounds astonishingly modernist in its dramatic dissonance. Source link
Classical corner
This sounds very much ahead of its time: Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor, performed by Maria João Pires. Source link
Classical corner
J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed by Armenian harpist Ashkhen Gavorkian. Source link
Mark Felton pokes around in another obscure corner of WWII…
...and finds volunteers from a Waffen-SS unit fighting for the French in post-war Vietnam. Source link
Classical corner
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra on Arabian Themes, by Fikret Amirov and Elmire Nazirova (performed by Khatia Buniastishvili and the Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte-Carlo). Source link
Classical corner
Alexander Glazunov's Concert Waltz No. 1 (the Russian National Orchestra, under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev. Source link