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15.9.13

In Brief: Tantris 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.)


  • From the Messiaen Festival, George Benjamin conducts the London Sinfonietta, in his own music (At First Light and Into the Little Hill), as well as pieces by Purcell and Christian Mason. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a concert by Ars Nova Copenhagen, conducted by Paul Hillier, with music by Monteverdi, Berio, and Frank Martin. [Danish Radio]

  • A good preview of Verdi's I Masnadieri, scheduled for next weekend with the Washington Concert Opera, performed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with Daniele Rustioni and a cast including Giacomo Prestia (Moor) Andeka Gorrotxategui (Carlo), and Artur Rucinski (Francesco). [ORF]

  • From the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, soprano Miah Persson, pianist Roger Vignoles, and clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer perform songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Grieg. [ORF]

  • Watch Friday night's concert by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Myung-Whun Chung conducting music by Berlioz (Le carnival romain overture and Symphonie fantastique) and Mendelssohn (first piano concerto, with David Kadouch as soloist) in the Salle Pleyel. [Cité de la Musique Live]

  • From the Berlioz Festival, a performance of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie conducted by Nicolas Chalvin, with a cast led by Marianna Pizzolato, Marie Arnet, and Bénédicte Tauran. [France Musique]

  • At the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, and pianist Lars Vogt play trios by Schubert and Dvořák. [ORF]

  • Cellist Sol Gabetta and pianist Igor Levit play Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. [ORF]

  • The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie hosted Alain Platel during the Klara Festival in Brussels, to create C(H)ŒURS, a performance featuring choral singers and dancers in music by Wagner and Verdi. [De Munt]
  • From the Klara Festival in Brussels, the Quartet-Lab performs music by Beethoven, Ligeti, Britten, Boris Yoffe, and George Crumb. [France Musique]

  • The Ensemble Gombert marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Carlo Gesualdo with a concert of the composer's music. [Australian Radio]

  • In a concert recorded last month at the Opéra de Vichy, Dennis Russell Davies leads the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, in Ravel's G major concerto, with Bertrand Chamayou at the piano, and the Ring without Words. [France Musique]

  • The Auryn Quartett plays the Musiktage Mondsee with clarinetist Julian Bliss, with music by Brahms, Staud, and Mozart. [ORF]

  • A concert by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for the Wagner bicentenary, with soprano Ann Petersen. [Danish Radio]

  • Flutist Emmanuel Pahud and friends perform chamber music by Poulenc, Debussy, Mozart, and others, at the Festival Musique à l'Emperi in July. [France Musique]

  • More from the Emperi Festival, with chamber music by Rota, Ravel, Turina, and Milhaud, again with Emmanuel Pahud and friends. [France Musique]

  • In a concert recorded last June at the Centquatre in Paris, the Quatuor Zaïde plays music by Stravinsky, Ives, Webern, and Roslavets. [France Musique]

  • Concerto Copenhagen plays at the Sanssouci Festival, with music by Johan Helmich Roman, Johann Adolph Scheibe, and Telemann, a concert recorded last June. [ORF]

  • A recital of music by Brahms and Wolf, performed by bariton Stephan Genz and pianist Michel Dalberto, recorded last March in the Studio Sacha Guitry at Radio France. [France Musique]

  • The Quintette Aquilon plays music by Henri Brod, Darius Milhaud, Jacques Ibert, Ravel, and Debussy, recorded last month at the Schloss Eggenberg. [ORF]

  • Pianist Geoffroy Couteau plays music by Brahms, plus a work in tribute to Brahms by Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier, recorded last month at the Abbaye de Fontdouce. [France Musique]

  • Listen to Erich Leinsdorf's 1959 recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Birgit Nilsson (Donna Anna), Leontyne Price (Donna Elvira), and the Vienna Philharmonic. [ORF]

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