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2.2.14

In Brief: Red Wings Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.


  • Watch a concert recorded last Wednesday at the Salle Pleyel, with Paavo Järvi leading the Orchestre de Paris in a Haydn symphony (no. 82, "The Bear"), two Sibelius symphonies (nos. 6 and 7), and a Mozart piano concerto (K. 488) with Menahem Pressler, celebrating his 90th birthday. [Cité de la Musique Live]

  • From the Opéra Bastille in Paris, Philippe Jordan leads a performance of Mahler's second symphony with the Orchestre National de France, the Choeur de l'Opéra de Paris, soprano Julia Kleiter and la mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster. [France Musique]

  • Listen to Jiri Belohlavek conduct Dvorak's Rusalka, starring Michael Schade and Krassimira Stoyanova, from the Wiener Staatsoper. [ORF]

  • Ulf Schirmer leads a performance of Wagner's Feuersnot with the Munich Radio Orchestra. [BR-Klassik]

  • Watch the new production of Janáček's Jenůfa, directed by Alvis Hermanis at the Théâtre de La Monnaie in Brussels, with Ludovic Morlot and a cast starring Sally Matthews (Jenůfa), Charles Workman (Laca), Nicky Spence (Števa), and Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Kostelnička). [Medici.tv]

  • René Jacobs conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester and RIAS Kammerchor Berlin in C. P. E. Bach's Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu at the Mozartwoche Salzburg. [ORF]

  • Francesco Cera conducts the Ensemble Arte Musica in Gesualdo's fifth book of madrigals, recorded at the Wiener Konzerthaus last month. [ORF]

  • Donizetti's Maria di Rohan, with Mark Elder and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, starring José Bros (Riccardo di Chalais), Christopher Purves (Enrico di Chevreuse), Krassimira Stoyanova (Maria di Rohan), recorded in 2009 in London. [ORF]

  • Music by Szymanowski and Rachmaninoff with Olari Elts conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Baiba Skride. [RTBF]

  • String quintets by Mozart performed by Alina Ibragimóva, Renaud Capuçon, Gérard Caussé, Léa Hennino, and Clemens Hagen. [ORF]

  • From the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm last August, the Estonian National Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Chorus, conducted by Neeme Järvi in music by Schnittke, Ligeti, Jennefelt, Lauridsen, Larsson, Grieg, and Tubin. [RTBF]

  • The sixth book of Monteverdi's madrigals, as performed by members of Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew, at the Cité de la Musique. [France Musique]

  • An all-Schubert recital by Paul Lewis, including the German dances and two sonatas (D. 784 and 845), recorded in 2012 at the Schubertiade Hohenems. [ORF]

  • Guy van Waas conducts Les Agremens and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur in Rodolphe Kreutzer's La Mort d'Abel, recorded in Lüttlich in 2010. [ORF]

  • The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs music by Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schubert at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos. [France Musique]

  • A recital earlier this month by the Quatuor Béla, recorded at the Cité de la Musique. [France Musique]

  • Recorded at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, chamber music by Brahms, Mozart, and Debussy, with Vesko Eschkenazy (violin), Jasper de Waal (horn), and Marietta Petkowa (piano). [ORF]

  • Pianist Nicolas Stavy performs music by Bartók, Debussy, Bach, and Liszt, recorded in the Auditorium du Musée d'Orsay. [France Musique]

  • From a 2012 recital in Geneva, songs by Liszt and Rachmaninoff by soprano Diana Damrau and pianist Helmut Deutsch. [ORF]

  • From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a recital by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet with music by Haydn, Beethoven, and Bartók. [France Musique]

  • Tzimon Barto joins the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, conducted by Cornelius Meister, in Prokofiev's third piano concerto, plus the world premiere of a new piece by Erin Gee, Mouthpiece XX. [ORF]

  • Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in music by Maxwell Davies, Brahms, and Walton. [BBC3]

  • Tenor Mauro Peter sings Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Helmut Deutsch. [BBC3]

  • Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni sings songs by Beethoven, Reichardt, Brahms, and Liszt at the Wigmore Hall in London. [BBC3]

  • From the Cité des Congrès de Nantes, Jean-François Heisser conducts violinist Tai Murray and the Orchestre Poitou Charentes in music by Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, and Samuel Barber. [France Musique]

  • A performance of Antheil's Le Ballet mécanique and Ionisation by Varèse, also from La Folle Journée de Nantes, with pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger joining percussionists from the Ensemble AdONF. [France Musique]

  • The Orchestre d'Auvergne, under conductor Robert Fores Veses, performs music by Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. [France Musique]

  • Claudio Abbado conducts Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims at La Scala in 1984. [RTBF]

  • Beloved soprano Barbara Hendricks sings a jazz program in Nantes, with music by or associated with Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. [France Musique]

  • Listen to violinist Nicola Benedetti and the Sinfonia Varsovia, under Jean-Jacques Kantorow, perform Korngold's violin concerto, plus music by John Williams and George Gershwin. [France Musique]

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