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29.6.14

In Brief: End of June 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.


  • Listen to the French premiere of the chamber version of Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone, with Clément Mao-Takacs conducting the Secession Orchestra and sopranos Karen Vourc'h and Raquel Camarinha, mezzo-soprano Magali Paliès, tenor Johan Viau, and bass Florent Baffi. [France Musique]

  • Watch the production of Rossini's opera buffa La Gazzetta from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, directed by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera. [Medici.tv]

  • Alexandre Tharaud performs music by Couperin and Scarlatti, plus Franck's piano quintet with the Cuarteto Casals. [RTBF]

  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays music by Debussy, Chopin, Ligeti, and Bartok at the Aldeburgh Festival. [BBC3]

  • From the Wiener Festwochen, Philippe Jordan leads the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris and baritone Thomas Hampson in a program of music by Berlioz, Wagner, and Strauss. [ORF]

  • Cellist Misha Maisky and conductor Evgeny Svetlanov join the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a concert of music by Paul Dukas and Ernest Bloch. [France Musique]

  • Pianist Elisso Virssaladze joins the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, under conducter Evgeny Svetlanov, with music by Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Svetlanov, and Tchaikovsky. [France Musique]

  • The Clemencic Consort, with countertenor Markus Forster and tenors Gernot Heinrich und Tore Tom Denys, perform medieval French motets from the Bamberg Codex, recorded at the Wiener Musikverein. [ORF]

  • Watch Tugan Sokhiev conduct the Orchestre National du Capitole in Mahler's third symphony in Toulouse, with the splendid Anna Larsson as soloist. [Medici.tv]

  • The Vienna Philharmonic play a commemorative concert, in memory of World War I, with music by Haydn, Schubert, Berg, Brahms, and Ravel. [BBC3]

  • Music by Rautavaara (violin concerto, Cantus Arcticus) and Debussy, with violinist Hilary Hahn and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. [France Musique]

  • Gustavo Dudamel leads the Berlin Philharmonic in music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms at the Waldbühne. [Medici.tv]

  • A concert recorded at Ircam in Paris, during the ManiFeste festival this month, features the world premiere of a new work by Philippe Leroux (b. 1959), Quid sit musicus?, which incorporates and extends from 14th-century pieces by Guillaume Machaut and others. [France Musique]

  • Chamber music by Schubert, Mozart, and Dvorak performed by pianist Till Fellner and the Belcea Quartet. [RTBF]

  • From Glyndebourne, a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, directed by Jonathan Kent. [Glyndebouorne]

  • Watch cellist Stéphane Tétreault and pianist Marie-Eve Scarfone, from Canada, perform at the Flâneries Musicales d'été de Reims. [Medici.tv]

  • François-Xavier Roth conducts music by Beethoven, Dukas, and Dutilleux, with cellist Gauthier Capuçon and the Ensemble Les Siècles. [France Musique]

  • The Baroque orchestra La Cetra and its vocal ensemble perform Handel's serenata Il Parnasso in Festa, with Carlos Federico Sepúlveda conducting soloists Carlos Mena, Maria Espada, David Hansen, and others in the Rococo theater of the Schwetzinger Schloss. [ORF]

  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Mahler's first symphony and the second violin concerto of Bartók, with Gil Shaham as soloist. [BR-Klassik]

  • Evgeny Svetlanov also leads music of Mahler and Rachmaninoff, with pianist Stanislav Neuhaus and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and the ORTF National Orchestra. [France Musique]

  • A program of early music from Spain performed by the Huelgas Ensemble, conducted by Paul Van Nevel. [RTBF]

  • Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra at Dorchester Abbey last month, with violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck, in music of Parry, Bax, Rutland Boughton, and E. J. Moeran. [ORF]

  • The Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Patrick Lange and with organist Gunther Rost, perform music of Strauss, Poulenc, and Saint-Saëns. [ORF]

  • More Evgeny Svetlanov, again with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, in music of Khachaturian, Dvořák, Svetlanov, and Ravel, with violonist Silvia Marcovici. [France Musique]

  • Music of Falla, Rodrigo, and Miaskovsky with guitarist Manuel Barrueco, cellist Alexander Kniazev, and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, under Evgeny Svetlanov interprètent. [France Musique]

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