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16.3.14

In Brief: Yet More Winter 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.

  • You will want to watch this complete performance of all of Bach's harpsichord music on historical instruments, recorded between March 11 and 21, with Aurélien Delage, Olivier Baumont, Béatrice Martin, Céline Frisch, Andreas Staier, and others. [Cité de la Musique Live]

  • At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Riccardo Muti conducts Bernarda Fink and the Orchestre National de France, to celebrate the orchestra's 80th anniversary, with music by Rossini, Chausson, and Scriabine. [France Musique]

  • From 1959, four historical concerts performed by the Orchestre National de France, featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Clara Haskil, Gyorgy Cziffra, Victoria de Los Angeles, and Georg Solti. [France Musique]

  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in music by Ives, Adams, and Berlioz. [BBC3]

  • Watch Kent Nagano conduct the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Wagner, David Philip Hefti, Berlioz, and Liszt, with pianist Marc-André Hamelin as soloist. [Medici.tv]

  • A recital by pianist Angela Hewitt, with music by Bach and Beethoven, recorded last December at the Wigmore Hall in London. [ORF]

  • Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Fradio France in a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and other soloists. [Cité de la Musique Live]

  • Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, plus music by Strauss, with Barbara Sukowa, violonist Hélène Collerette, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck. [France Musique]

  • Watch the production of Sindbad, a new opera by Howard Moody, from Brussels. [De Munt]

  • Handel's Dixit dominus and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with soprano Anna Prohaska and MusicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis. [France Musique]

  • Watch John Eliot Gardiner conduct Monteverdi's Vespro della beate vergine at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles. [Medici.tv]

  • A recital by pianist Stephen Hough with music by Beethoven, Scriabin, Liszt, and Hough. [RTBF]

  • Herbert Blomstedt leads the NDR Sinfonieorchester, with pianist Piotr Anderszewski as soloist, in music by Mozart and Wilhelm Stenhammar, recorded last November in Hamburg. [ORF]

  • The vocal ensemble Discantus performs music from the Winchester Troper, plus music by Joël Rust and Pierre Chépolov, recorded at the Rencontres de musique médiévale du Thoronet. [France Musique]

  • Arias and dances from Rameau operas, with soprano Anna Reinhold and Les Arts Florissants, recorded last month in Vienna. [ORF]

  • Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Chor der Oper Graz in his own music and that of Schoenberg. [ORF]

  • Listen to Dvořák's Rusalka, starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, and others, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Metropolitan Opera. [France Musique]

  • Listen to Massenet's Werther, starring Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), and Lisette Oropesa (Sophie), at the Metropolitan Opera. [ORF]

  • Dirk Kaftan leads the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester and pianist Boris Berezovsky in music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. [ORF]

  • Pianist Shai Wosner and soprano Katherine Broderick join Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for music by Tippett and Mozart. [ORF]

  • Violinist Sayaka Shoji and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yukata Sado, perform music by Barry Gray, Chausson, Berlioz, Dukas, and William Walton. [France Musique]

  • Music by Thierry Pécou and Moritz Eggert, performed by the Ensemble Resonanz at the Présences Festival. [France Musique]

  • Roger Norrington conducts a live recording of Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto, at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, with Bruce Ford (Mitridate), Cyndia Sieden (Aspasia), Christiane Oelze (Sifare), and the Camerata Salzburg. [ORF]

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