Today's Birthdays in Music: May 7 (Brahms, Tchaikovsky)
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A mini-biopic of Johannes Brahms. The music is his Hungarian Dance no.11
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, 3rd movement (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting)
1870 - Piotr Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia; composer
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Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovksy's 1812 overture - Berliner Philharmoniker. Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Rocco Rilippini plays Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana led by Karl Anton Rickenbacher
Soprano Egle Chisiu and baritone Nauris Indzeris sing the final duet of Tatyana and Onegin from Eugene Onegin - Klaipeda Opera Theatre (Lithuania), August 2007(Conductor - I.Lapinsch)
Ramon Flowers performs "Trepack" from The Nutcracker (production of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Montreal, Canada)
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