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3.7.16

Perchance to Stream: Independence Day Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio and online video from the week gone by. After clicking to an audio or video stream, you may need to press the "Play" button to start the broadcast. Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

  • Collegium Vocale Gent, under Philippe Herreweghe, performs the Le Lagrime di San Pietro of Orlando Lassus, recorded in April at the Oratoire du Louvre. [France Musique]

  • Watch a performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks at the Château de Chambord, with Hervé Niquet conducting Le Concert Spirituel. [ARTE]

  • Watch Philippe Jordan conduct the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris in arias by Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, and others, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anita Rachvelishvili, and others. [ARTE]

  • Watch the double-bill of Senza Sangue by Péter Eötvös and Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle at the Armel Opera Festival. [ARTE]

  • Listen to Handel's Jephtha performed by Accademia Bizantina and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, recorded in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Beaune. [Radio Clásica]

  • A recital by pianist Marc-André Hamelin from the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, with music by Maria Szymanowska, Mozart, Schubert, and Liszt. [Ö1]

  • Listen to the performance of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, in an English translation by Tom Stoppard, performed by Opera Australia. [ABC Classic]

  • Watch the production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from the Opéra Grand Avignon. [CultureBox]

  • Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestre National de France in a concert of Liszt, Wagner, and Bruckner, with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recorded last May. [France Musique]

  • Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Karina Canellakis, performs three Beethoven symphonies in Graz. [Ö1 | Part 2]

  • Laurence Commings conducts the NDR Chor at the Göttingen Festival in Handel's Susanna, with Emily Fons (Susanna) leading the soloists. [Ö1]

  • Watch a production of Auber's Manon Lescaut from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie. [CultureBox]

  • Watch Bruno Coli's two Poe operas, The Angel of the Odd and The Tell-Tale Heart, performed at the Armel Opera Festival. [ARTE]

  • Listen to the last in Paul Lewis's series of Mozart piano concertos, featuring no. 25, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under the leadership of concertmaster Amaury Coeytaux. [France Musique]

  • From the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, a recital by pianist Paul Lewis, with music by Liszt, Brahms, and Schubert. [Ö1]

  • Watch a production of Gounod's Le Médecin malgré lui from the Grand Théâtre de Genève. [CultureBox]

  • The BBC Singers, under conductor David Hill, perform Victoria's Requiem Mass and Parry's Songs of Farewell at St Bartholomew the Great. [BBC3]

  • Collegium Vocale 1704, under the leadership of Václav Luks, performs choral music by Bach and Zelenka, recorded in the Rokokotheater des Schwetzinger Schlosses. [Ö1]

  • The Baroque ensemble Arcangelo performs works by Bach with the violinist Isabelle Faust, soprano Anna Lucia Richter, and flutist Rachel Brown, recorded at Wigmore Hall, London. [BBC3]

  • From the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Andrew Davis conducts the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt in music of Vaughan Williams and Delius, plus Berg's violin concert with Renaud Capuçon as soloist. [Ö1]

  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents French spectral composer Gerard Grisey's Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold, along with music by Brett Dean and Lisa Illean. [ABC Classic]

  • Watch a performance of Les Mémoires d’un Seigneur, choreographed by Olivier Dubois, at the Théâtre Paul Eluard. [ARTE]

  • Violist Boris Brovstyn and friends perform Schulhoff's Sextet, recorded at the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival. [Avro Klassiek]

  • From a concert recorded in 2015 at the church of Saint-Loup in Namur, Ensemble Psallentes and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, under L. García-Alarcón, perform sacred music by Lully. [Radio Clásica]

  • From the Wiener Festwochen, Vladimir Jurowski leads the Wiener Symphoniker, with violinist Leonidas Kavakos, in music by Rachmaninov, Korngold, and Zemlinsky (Die Seejungfrau). [Ö1]

  • Watch The Omnibus Opera, the Serbian National Theater's performance of micro-operas at the Armel Opera Festival. [ARTE]

  • Manfred Honeck conducts the New York Philharmonic in Bruckner's ninth symphony. [NY Phil]

  • From the monastery of St. Florian, Michi Gaigg leads a concert by L'Orfeo Barockorchester and tenor Daniel Behle, with music by Schubert. [Ö1]

  • Adrian Partington directs the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with music by composers who fought in the trenches and in memory of those who fell, including Delius's Requiem, recorded in Cardiff. [BBC3]

  • Gautier Capuçon and the Quatuor Ebène play music by Haydn, Debussy, and Schubert, in a concert recorded in April at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. [France Musique]

  • Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Saskia Giorgini perform songs by Brahms at the opening concert of the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival. [Avro Klassiek]

  • From a concert last July in the church of Stainz, Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads Concentus Musicus Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Haydn's Mass in Time of War and Symphony No. 97. [Radio Clásica]

  • Listen to a concert of contemporary music with the London Contemporary Orchestra playing pieces by Meredith Monk, Andrew Hamilton, and Shiva Feshareki, recorded at St John-at-Hackney in London. [BBC3]

  • Clarinetist Paul Meyer joins the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, under conductor Oswald Sallaberger, for a concert of music by Debussy, Roussel, Satie, Ravel, and others. [France Musique]

  • The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, under Riccardo Muti, performs Mahler's first symphony and Schubert's fifth for the final concert of the 2013/14 season. [CSO]

  • Barry Wordsworth conducts the Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Verdi's Messa di Requiem and Maya Verlaak's Carrier. [BBC3]

  • Watch Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires, performed at the Armel Opera Festival. [ARTE]


1 comment:

elfpix said...

The Paul Lewis recital of Schubert and Brahms is very lovely, but the program and announer are amazingly wrong.