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15.3.15

Perchance to Stream: Ides of March 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.

  • Listen to the performance of Au Monde, the new opera by Philippe Boesmans and Joël Pommerat, recorded last month at the Opéra Comique in Paris. [France Musique]

  • Watch a performance of Vicente Martín y Soler's 1787 opera L'arbore di Diana, recorded at the Bayerische Theaterakademie. [BR-Klassik]

  • Listen to the performance of Rossini's La Donna del Lago, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez, from the Metropolitan Opera. [ORF]

  • Music of Charpentier and Handel performed by Le Concert Spirituel, conducted by Hervé Niquet, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]

  • Egils Silins and Adrianne Pieczonka star in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, recorded at the Royal Opera in London, under the baton of Andris Nelsons. [Radio Clásica]

  • John O'Donnell leads the Ensemble Gombert in a program of Renaissance polyphony, composed by Brumel, Josquin, Obrecht, and others, recorded at the Xavier College Chapel in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]

  • The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin performs at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. [Avro Klassiek]

  • From the Barbican Hall, the BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, starring Michelle DeYoung and Gabor Bretz, plus music by Schnelzer and Ravel. [BBC3]

  • Herbert Blomstedt leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Haydn's "Clock" symphony and Beethoven's "Eroica." [RTBF]

  • Listen to music of Purcell and Locke performed by the English Concert and conductor Harry Bicket, with soprano Rosemary Joshua and mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, recorded at the Wigmore Hall in London. [BBC3]

  • Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in music of Ligeti, Marx, and Bruckner's ninth symphony. [ORF | Part 2]

  • Listen to the recital by pianist Yevgeny Sudbin, performing music by Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, and Saint-Saëns in Lyon. [France Musique]

  • From the Salle Bourgie in Montreal, Ensemble Caprice performs two Bach cantatas, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit and Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl. [Radio Clásica]
  • Semyon Bychkov leads a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic, with violist Maté Szücs and cellist Bruno Delepelaire, in music by Strauss and Schubert. [RTBF]

  • Paul Agnew leads singers from Les Arts Florissants in Monteverdi's seventh book of madrigals, recorded last year in Prague. [ORF]

  • From the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Arvo Volmer leads the Orchestre National de Belgique and pianist Alexei Volodin, in the world premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür's Le poids des vies non vécues, Beethoven's third piano concerto, and Nielsen's fourth symphony. [RTBF]

  • Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Berlin Staatskapelle, with pinaist Daniel Barenboim, with music by Brahms and Chopin. [France Musique]

  • Giovanni Antonini leads Il Giardino Armonico in music by Fontana, Merula, Schmelzer, Telemann, Vivaldi, and Biber. [RTBF]

  • The London Philharmonic, under conductor Andrew Manze, performs Elgar's Introduction and Allegro, Ireland's piano concerto (with Piers Lane as soloist), and Walton's first symphony. [BBC3]

  • Music by Fauré, Mozart, and Messiaen performed by the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and the Maîtrise de Radio France. [France Musique]

  • Angélique Kidjo sings Philip Glass's Ifè: Three Yoruba Songs with the Bruckner Orchester Linz and conductor Dennis Russell Davies, plus music by Zemlinsky and Gershwin. [ORF]

  • Simon Standage and Agata Sapiecha lead Collegium Musicum 90 and Il Tempo in music of C.P.E. Bach and Telemann. [RTBF]
  • William Christie presents the young singers of his Le Jardin des Voix program with Les Arts Florissants, in a concert recorded earlier this month in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]

  • From Brangwyn Hall in Swansea, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Shostakovich's tenth symphony and Tchaikovsky's piano concerto with Nikolai Demidenko as soloist, under conductor Thomas Søndergård. [BBC3]

  • Semyon Bychkov leads the Munich Philharmonic in music by Dvorak and Richard Strauss, recorded last year in Bonn. [ORF]

  • A recital by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet with music by Beethoven, Debussy, and Ravel in Lyon's Salle Rameau. [France Musique]

  • Thomas Hengelbrock leads the NDR Sinfonieorchester in Mahler's first symphony, plus Sofia Gubaidulina's violin concerto Offertorium, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja as soloist, recorded last month in Vienna. [ORF]

  • Music of Beethoven and Stravinsky with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Soloists Choir, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. [RTBF]

  • Peter Dijkstra leads a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Bavarian Radio Chorus, the Regensburger Domspatzen, and Concerto Köln. [BR-Klassik]

  • The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra performs music of Handel, recorded at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]

  • Thomas Soltani leads the Ensemble Stravaganza in François Couperin's Quatre concerts royaux, recorded last January at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [ORF]

  • A recital by pianist Philippe Bianconi, with music by Chopin and Debussy. [RTBF]

  • Eivind Gullberg Jensen conducts the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne in music by Mozart, Rosetti, and Beethoven. [France Musique]

  • From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Ensemble Nevermind performs music by Bach, Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, and Telemann, plus an improvisation by the group's harpischordist, Jean Rondeau. [France Musique]

  • The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales performs a concert for International Women's Day, with music by Boulanger, Holmès, Chaminade, Tailleferre, and Bonis, recorded in Cardiff with conductor Jessica Cottis. [BBC3]

  • Dirk Kaftan leads the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra and the Graz Opera Chorus in music by Enescu, plus Strauss Lieder with soprano Gal James, in a concert recorded last year at the Graz Opera. [ORF]

  • The Altenberg Trio Wien, the Minetti Quartett, and other musicians perform chamber music by Haydn, Poulenc, Ravel, and Chausson, recorded in 2014 at the Schloss Weinzierl. [ORF]

  • The Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, with violist Christophe Desjardin, perform at the Présences Festival. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a recording of Karl Goldmark's opera Die Königin von Saba, starring Klara Takacs, recorded at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, with Adam Fischer at the podium. [ORF]

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