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Bart van Oort 

John Atkinson Grimshaw - Roundhay lake, From Castle

Maurice Bourbon, Ensemble Métamorphoses de Paris

Paul Gauguin - The Forest Path

Charles Münch, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise

Childe Hassam - Mount Hood and the Valley of the Willamette

Jascha Heifetz, Lillian Steuber

Ivan Aivazovsky - The ship thrown on the rocks

"Concerto in C major, RV 558, counts among Antonio Vivaldi's last works and, even within his enormous output, one of his most unique. It perhaps owes its rather festive nature to its inclusion on a concert for Prince Frederick Christian of Poland at the Ospedale della Pietà (the famous orphanage-cum- conservatory) during his visit to Venice in 1740. The most immediately striking aspect of this piece is its elaborate instrumentation. RV 558 calls for two recorders, two mandolins, two chalumeaux (offspring of the bagpipe chanter and forerunner of the clarinet), theorbos (a kind of bass lute with two sets of strings running parallel, but with a separate sets of tuning pegs for the lower strings), a single violoncello, and two violins "in tromba marina." This last instrumentational detail is the most curious, perhaps interpreted as instructing the violinists to perform in the manner of a tromba marina -- a large, archaic instrument with a single string stretched across a special rattling bridge, the buzz of which gives each note a horn-like sound."

Alfred Sisley - The Station at Sevres

The Hilliard Ensemble

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Pear Tree

Wilhelm Kempff

Frits Thaulow - House by the Water's Edge

Josef Suk, Václav Neumann, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Claude Monet - Morning on the Seine in the Rain

The Borodin Trio