Aria Peter Breiner

• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): La bohème, SC 67:
• 1Puccini: La bohème, SC 67: Che gelida manina (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:38
• ianni Schicchi, SC 88:
• 2Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, SC 88: O mio babbino caro (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)01:46
• Madama Butterfly, SC 74:
• 3Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74: Un bel dì vedremo (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:17
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): L'elisir d'amore, A. 36:
• 4Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, A. 36: Una furtiva lagrima (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:36
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787): Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30:
• 5Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Che farò senza Euridice? (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:30
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Don Giovanni, K. 527:
• 6Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Dalla sua pace (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)04:06
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919): Pagliacci:
• 7Leoncavallo: Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:03
• Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626:
• 8Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I Am Laid in Earth (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)04:09
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Rigoletto:
• 9Verdi: Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:35
• Giacomo Puccini: Tosca, SC 69:
• 10Puccini: Tosca, SC 69: E lucevan le stelle (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:37
• Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata:
• 11Verdi: La traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:42
• Giacomo Puccini: Turandot, SC 91:
• 12Puccini: Turandot, SC 91: Nessun dorma (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:44
• Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891): Lakmé:
• 13Delibes: Lakmé: Sous le dôme épais (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)01:50
• Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948): Die lustige Witwe:
• 14Lehár: Die lustige Witwe: Vilja Lied (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)04:27
• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Serse, HWV 40:
• 15Handel: Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu "Largo" (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:28
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880): Les contes d'Hoffmann:
• 16Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann: Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour "Barcarolle" (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:11
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492:
• 17Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Voi, che sapete (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:43
• Don Giovanni, K. 527:
• 18Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527: Deh, vieni alla finestra (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:20
• Franz Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns:
• 19Lehár: Das Land des Lächelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:32
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875): Carmen, WD 31 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner):
• 20Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner): La fleur que tu m'avais jetée03:50
• 21Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner): L'amour est un oiseau rebelle04:48
• Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner):
• 22Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner): Donna non vidi mai02:21
• 23Puccini: Manon Lescaut, SC 64 (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner): Tra voi belle brune e bionde01:09
• Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto:
• 24Verdi: Rigoletto: Questa o quella (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:03
• George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17:
• 25Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Piangerò la sorte mia (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)03:03
• Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899): Die Fledermaus:
• 26Strauss II: Die Fledermaus: Brüderlein, Brüderlein und Schwesterlein (Arr. for Piano by Peter Breiner)02:24
• Total Runtime01:15:52

Info for Aria

Known as a conductor, pianist, arranger, and composer, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, some of the most prestigious orchestras around the world. He is one of the world's most recorded musicians, with over 260 CDs released and millions of albums sold.

“Astounding virtuosity, daring inventiveness, incredible skill and acrobatic wonders...master of improvisation...not only a briliant virtuoso but also a consummate entertainer” — The Review, Washington D.C.

Peter Breiner, piano

Peter Breiner
Known as a conductor, pianist, arranger and composer, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Westdeutsche Rundfunk Symphony, Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, Nicolaus Esterhazy Orchestra Budapest, Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lille, France, and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, to mention just a few. He is one of the world's most recorded musicians, with over 260 CDs released and over 2 million albums sold and uncountable streams/downloads mostly stolen.

Some of his most acclaimed recordings include Beatles Go Baroque (over quarter of million CDs sold worldwide) and Elvis Goes Baroque representing the collections of his commercially most successful Baroque arrangements together with Christmas Goes Baroque 1 and 2. The follow-up to this bestseller - Beatles go Baroque Again was recorded in December 2018 with some of the best soloists in the world and released in 2019 on Naxos label to general critical acclaim and massive interest at streaming sites.

His arrangements of national anthems of ALL participating countries were used during the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and illegally in Beijing in 2008. He recorded his own arrangements of the anthems of the participating countries of the Rugby World Cup 2011 and a new 10 CD set of the National Anthems of the World 2013 Edition was written to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London and was released in July 2013 by Naxos.

Peter recorded his own arrangements of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death and The Nursery and Tchaikovsky's Operatic Suites from The Voyevoda and The Queen of Spades for Naxos. These recordings, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Peter, are the subject of a movie documentary entitled Bask. In addition, September 2012 saw the award-winning Naxos release of Peter's own arrangements of Debussy's 24 Piano Preludes.

The world premiere recording for Naxos of his own arrangements of Janacek’s Six Operatic Suites with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and himself conducting earned similar acclaim, Gramophone stating “ Splendid disc .... conducted with passion and sympathetic understanding .. “ the Chicago Tribune adding “ Breiner fills the void with beautifully crafted symphonic suites based on the music of Jenufa”. All of these albums achieved places on worlwide Top Seller and Best Recording lists. His trio, Triango’s latest album was released in the fall of 2011 by First Impression Music.

Premiered live in July 2013 was the music for a huge Transmedia project to consist of audio recording, several interactive videos, and audience-involvement platforms – Slovak Dances, Nasty and Nice. This project is based on Peter’s own 100 minute orchestral suite of dances which was recorded in September 2018 by Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra with the composer conducting and released in September 2020 on Naxos. It was performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York in December 2016 and also performed as a ballet at the Slovak National Theater for three seasons. Peter also conducted Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet for two seasons there and the same company commissioned a full length ballet based on a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov Master and Margaret for their 100th season in 2021.

In general, Peter's music, whether his own or his arrangements, has been used by choreographers at numerous remarkable ballet companies (American Ballet Theater, Houston Ballet, Royal Ballet (GB), Balet Jorgen Canada, Queensland Ballet, Ballet am Rhein and many others).

Peter's compositions and arrangements have been played in concerts worldwide. Films that include his musical scores have enjoyed very wide international exposure (such as Anne of Green Gables , Timothy Findley's Piano Man's Daughter , produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and The Magic Flute ) and his music has been featured many times on the most popular TV shows (including CBC television show Wind at My Back and a CBS movie Seasons of Love ).

It is difficult to assign a title to this artist - is he the conductor who composes or is he the pianist who arranges? As he simply states, "I am a musician". In this age of high specialization, it is not so easy to find someone who, with the same ease, takes the podium for a popular light classics concert, plays/directs from the piano, conducts a symphonic orchestra in Barber or Janacek or in a program of his own arrangements, a chamber orchestra with baroque programme while playing harpsichord or a group of almost 200 musicians recording a score for Universal Studios' movie.

Peter was the curator of “Sounds of Serendipity” – a series of Contemporary Classical Music Concerts featuring new and emerging composers and performers with a unique connection to both Peter and Czechoslovak music culture. The annual series was presented at the Bohemian National Hall, New York.

In 2018-2019 Peter's musical "Anne of Green Gables" has been in two full stage readings with the Broadway's most famous producer Jack Viertel and it is currently in further development.

Peter began to study piano in his early childhood (1961) and his exceptional artistry led to his early acceptance at the Conservatory in Kosice (1971). He studied piano (L. Kojanova), composition (J. Podprocky), conducting and percussion. In 1975-1981 he studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia) with Prof. Alexander Moyzes, one of the most significant figures in modern Slovak music - and this way he became a compositional great-grandson of Antonin Dvorak.

Peter Breiner lived in Toronto, Canada since 1992 till 2007 when he moved to New York and in July 2020 he moved to London, United Kingdom.

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