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13.10.13

In Brief: Second Flood 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.


  • A performance of Haydn's oratorio The Seasons, featuring the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra from Budapest, recorded in the parish church of Fertoszentmiklos, just a few kilometers away from Esterhaza where Haydn worked from 1766 to 1790. [Australian Radio]

  • Paul van Nevel leads the Ensemble Huelgas in Renaissance works based on the chanson Malheur me bat by Josquin, Agricola, and Obrecht, a concert recorded in the Eglise Saint-Sulpice de Favière. [France Musique]

  • Listen to Herbert Blomstedt conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner's fifth symphony. [ORF]

  • Mariss Jansons leads a performance of Verdi's Requiem Mass with the Munich Philharmonic. [BR-Klassik]

  • Watch Marin Alsop conduct the São Paulo State Symphony in Clarice Assad's Terra Brasilis, a fantasy on the Brazilian national anthem, Chopin's second piano concerto (with Nelson Freire as soloist), and Mahler's first symphony. [Cité de la Musique Live]

  • Pianist Barbara Moser and the Steude Quartett perform chamber music by Brahms, Leoš Janáček, and Ernst von Dohnányi. [ORF]

  • Peter Philips leads the The Tallis Scholars in a performance of motets by Tallis, Allegri, and Byrd, plus Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, recorded this summer in Tewkesbury Abbey at the Cheltenham Festival. [ORF]

  • David Zinman leads the Orchestre de Paris at the Salle Pleyel, joined by violinist Nikolaj Znaider as soloist, in music by Britten and Beethoven. [France Musique]

  • From a concert recorded in Gerona, Il Giardino Armonico performs concertos by Vivaldi. [ORF]

  • Watch the semifinals and final round of the Neue Stimmen singing competition. [Medici.tv]

  • The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and pianist Paul Lewis play music by Fauré, Mozart, and Beethoven at a concert in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]

  • Listen to John Storgårds conduct the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, in the ballet suite Oko fuoko and third symphony by Leevi Madetoja and Eero Hämeenniemi's Yaadum uuree. [ORF]

  • A performance of Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, performed by the Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea and the Chœur de chambre de Namur, conducted by Leonardo Garcia-Alarcon and recorded at the Abbey Church of Ambronay. [France Musique]

  • Cornelius Meister conducts the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in Olga Neuwirth's ... miramondo multiplo ... für Trompete und Orchester (2006) with soloist Hakan Hardenberger, plus music by Mozart and Stravinsky. [ORF]

  • Radio France gives a tribute to the pianist Anne Queffélec, in a concert with the Trio Georges Sand, violinist Nicolas Dautricourt, and friends. [France Musique]

  • Pianist Lukas Geniusas gives a complete performance of Rachmaninoff's preludes, recorded at the Palais des Congrès du Touquet as part of the Soirée Sensation du festival Piano Folies. [France Musique]

  • A tribute to Croatian composer Ivo Malec in a performance of three of his works. [France Musique]

  • From 1982, Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Verdi's Macbeth at the Wiener Staatsoper, in a production starring Renato Bruson (Macbeth) and Mara Zampieri (Lady Macbeth). [ORF]

  • From 1964, the RCA Opera Orchestra and Chorus, under Fausto Cleva, in Verdi's Luisa Miller, starring Anna Moffo (Luisa), Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Cornell MacNeil (Miller), and Shirley Verrett (Federica). [ORF]

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