Stingray Classica HD
Slovakya
Stingray Classica HD is a high-definition television channel available in Slovakia that focuses on classical music performances and related cultural content. Programming typically includes concerts, operas, ballets, and recitals recorded in venues across Europe and beyond. The channel presents works by composers from various historical periods, performed by orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. Broadcasts are generally in their original audio format, with minimal on-screen text or commentary. The channel is distributed through select satellite and digital cable platforms in the region, allowing viewers access to curated classical music programming without commercial interruptions. No original productions or locally produced segments are associated with the channel in Slovakia.
Program
00:00 - 01:43
Homage to Yehudi Menuhin
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On 22 April 2016, Yehudi Menuhin would have celebrated his 100th birthday. One of his most famous students - and one of his best friends - is violinist Daniel Hope. For him, Yehudi Menuhin was the reason he become a violinist. At first, his mother became the secretary of Menuhin...
01:43 - 02:58
Martha Argerich - A Birthday Celebration - II
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On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich explored repertoire for piano and violin in this wonderful concert, recorded at Château de Chantilly, France. The ‘Grande Dame’ of the piano is joined by various renowned artists, including pianists Evgeny...
02:58 - 03:50
Who has stolen the Boléro by Maurice Ravel?
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One of the world’s most popular pieces of classical music, Maurice Ravel’s Boléro (1928), was no longer copyrighted as of May 1, 2016. Up to then it had made Ravel and his heirs millions. Ravel died in 1937 and left all he owned to his brother Edouard. Edouard’s death in 1960...
03:50 - 05:01
The Four Seasons
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We all know "The Four Seasons of Vivaldi.
05:01 - 05:19
Schumann - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22
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After recording all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birth anniversary, celebrated Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz decided to record solo piano works by Robert Schumann. In this performance, Schwartz presents Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2...
05:19 - 06:00
Classica Spotlight
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Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists.
06:00 - 06:37
Danielpour - Elegies
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Richard Danielpour (*1956) is one of the most beloved American composers of his generation due to his frequent referencing of and connection with the past, being inspired by American icons such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Leonard Bernstein. His lush musical language is...
06:37 - 07:02
Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
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Juan Manuel Cañizares is the soloist in a performance of Joaquín Rodrigo's (1901-1999) Concierto de Aranjuez. He is accompanied by the Berliner Philharmoniker led by maestro Sir Simon Rattle.
07:02 - 08:22
The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres
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The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, also known simply as Tafelmusik, is a Toronto-based Canadian baroque orchestra, specialised in early music. The ensemble is directed by violinist Jeanne Lamon. In ‘The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres’ they perform music by Monteverdi,...
08:22 - 09:10
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132
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Renowned French string quartet Quatuor Ébène marked the 250th birth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) with a remarkable project: recording all of the great composer’s sixteen string quartets. For five years, violinists Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure,...
09:10 - 09:40
Teatro Regio behind the scenes
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Few Italian theatres can boast of being an absolute point of reference for national and world culture. The Teatro Regio in Turin is both a symbol of excellence in the national operatic tradition and a prestigious stage hosting operas, ballets, concerts, and musicals of great...
09:40 - 10:02
Schumann - Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 14
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After recording all 32 Ludwig van Beethoven piano sonatas to celebrate the composer's 250th birth anniversary, celebrated Italian pianist Riccardo Schwartz decided to record solo piano works by Robert Schumann. Schumann composed his Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14 (a...
10:02 - 10:59
Clara Haskil - Le mystère de l’interprète
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The documentary “Clara Haskil - Le mystère de l’interprète” (2017) tells the remarkable life story of Romanian pianist Clara Haskil (1895-1960). Born in Bucharest into a Jewish family, she began her career as a child prodigy, entering the Bucharest Conservatory at a very young...
10:59 - 11:10
Shostakovich - Concertino for two pianos
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On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich explored repertoire for piano and violin in this wonderful concert, recorded at Château de Chantilly, France. The ‘Grande Dame’ of the piano is joined by various renowned artists, including pianists Evgeny...
11:10 - 11:50
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 99
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The Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the world’s finest orchestras, its fame stretching all the way to Japan. Unsurprisingly, this 2000 concert, recorded at Tokyo’s magnificent Suntory Hall, was a resounding success. Mariss Jansons conducts a beautiful program that includes...
11:50 - 13:04
Baroque choral music by Bach, Schütz et al.
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Five-strong vocal ensemble amarcord is joined by an extra alto and two soprano voices for this unusual concert at Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church. As amarcordplus, the ensemble presents a program focused on the city of Leipzig, which includes sacred madrigals by Johann Hermann...
13:04 - 14:08
Beethoven - Last Sonatas, Op. 109, 110 & 111
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Beethoven’s last three sonatas - Opus 109, 110 and 111 - explore the intimate meanders of the human soul, from despair to transfiguration. At the time of their composition, Beethoven was already locked in himself by his deafness. This deeply affected his relationship to others...
14:08 - 15:41
Works by Bach, Bartók, and Brahms
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Iván Fischer leads his Budapest Festival Orchestra in an exciting concert program consisting of works by J. S. Bach, Béla Bartók, and Johannes Brahms. The program opens with Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048. This is followed by one of Bartók’s best-known...
15:41 - 15:53
Schubert - Overture to Rosamunde
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Andreas Spering conducts Philharmonie Zuidnederland in a performance of "Overture Rosamunde" (D. 644), by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Recorded in Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2015. Schubert initially composed the Overture for Georg Ernst von hofmann's play 'Die...
15:53 - 17:43
Romeo and Juliet
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Sergei Prokofiev based his ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on William Shakespeare's famous play of the same name, telling the story of two young lovers from the feuding families Montague and Capulet. Acclaimed French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot created a distinctive...
17:43 - 18:46
Roberto Giordano plays Brahms and Beethoven
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In this recital, Roberto Giordano plays the Six Pieces for Piano, op. 118 of Brahms, a collection completed in 1893 and dedicated to Clara Schumann who will be the penultimate produced by the composer during his lifetime. The concert program also includes two Beethoven sonatas,...
18:46 - 19:55
Franz in Vienna: Mozart and Schoenberg
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Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst leads his Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimento No. 2 in D major, KV 131, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31, recorded at Severance Hall in Cleveland, USA. In addition,...
19:55 - 20:23
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23, KV 488
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Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Romantic repertoire, Francesco Attesti (*1975) gave his first recital at age 11 and by the time he was 23, had earned the highest honours in piano from Florence’s Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini. In this recording of his 2016 Deeply...
20:23 - 21:00
Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals
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Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s musical suite The Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux, 1886). This suite consists of 14 movements, each depicting a different animal. The work...
21:00 - 22:06
A Tribute to Vienna
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Chamber music ensemble The Philharmonics pays tribute to the music of Vienna in this March 9, 2011 concert from Vienna's Café Sperl. The ensemble, which consists of musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic, performs arrangements of five popular waltzes...
22:06 - 22:48
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
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Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan and the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris recorded all of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies in 2014-2015. In this program, Jordan conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67. Beethoven composed his Symphony No. 5 between 1804 and...
22:48 - 23:46
Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D major, ‘Titan’
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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence Musical May) is Italy’s oldest opera and arts festival. It was founded in 1933 with the aim of presenting contemporary and forgotten operas. Over the years, the scope widened, and orchestral concerts have long been an integral part of the...
23:46 - 00:00
Classica Spotlight
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Cinematic classical clips and energizing concert pieces featuring up-and-coming artists.