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13.12.15

Perchance to Stream: Advent III 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.

  • For the 150th birthday of Sibelius, Mikko Franck conducts an all-Finnish program with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and cellist Anssi Karttunen, with music by Joonas Kokkonen, Magnus Lindberg, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Sibelius. [France Musique]

  • Watch music of Zemlinsky and Richard Strauss performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and pianist Emanuel Ax. [ARTE]

  • Listen to Erin Helyard conduct a performance of Andrė Grėtry's L'Amant Jaloux, with Sydney's Pinchgut Opera. [ABC Classic]

  • The Wiener Philharmoniker, with conductor Christian Thielemann and pianist Yefim Bronfman, perform music by Weber, Liszt, and Tchaikovsky. [ORF | Part 2]

  • Listen to a performance of Janacek's Vec Makropulos at the Wiener Staatsoper, conducted by Jakub Hrusa and starring Laura Aikin. [ORF]

  • Cornelius Meister leads a performance of Britten's Peter Grimes at the Theater an der Wien, starring Joseph Kaiser (Peter Grimes) and Agneta Eichenholz (Ellen Orford). [ORF]

  • Harpsichordist Olivier Baumont offers a portrait of Louis XIV's Versailles with music by Couperin, and Marcel Bozonnet reading excerpts from Saint-Simon's Mémoires. [Philharmonie de Paris]

  • Symphonies by Schubert, Mozart, and Haydn performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, under Mariss Jansons, recorded last January. [ORF | Part 2]

  • From Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Helsinki Philharmonic and John Storgards play an all-Sibelius concert, including the seventh symphony. [BBC3]

  • Ivor Bolton leads a performance of Handel's oratorio Saul, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, and other soloists, recorded last July at the Glyndebourne Festival. [ORF]

  • From the Barbican Hall, Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony, plus Colin Currie in Switch, a new percussion concerto by Andrew Norman, and Hovhaness's second symphony. [BBC3]

  • Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, plus music by Tchaikovsky and Schubert. [CSO]

  • The Takács Quartet plays music by Schumann, Britten, and Dvorak, in a concert at the Auditorium du Louvre from 2012. [France Musique]

  • The English Concert performs Christmas music by Dandrieu, Charpentier, and Stradella for the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival. [BBC3]

  • Michelle DeYoung and Simon O'Neill join the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. [ABC Classic]

  • The Orchestre National de Belgique plays a concert devoted to the music of Prokofiev, with violinist Julia Fischer. [RTBF]

  • At the helm of the Orchestre National de France, Christoph Eschenbach conducts music by Saint-Saens, Connesson, and Berlioz with Vincent Warnier and Mathieu Dufour. [France Musique]

  • From last June, a concert by the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester, under Dirk Kaftan, with Mozart's C major piano concerto, with pianist Kit Armstrong, and Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie. [ORF]

  • Philippe Herreweghe leads a performance of Bach's B Minor Mass, with Collegium Vocale Gent, Dorothee Mields and other soloists, recorded last year at the Edinburgh Festival. [ORF]

  • Bass Günther Groissböck and pianist Gerold Huber perform Schubert's Winterreise, recorded last month at the Schloss Rothschild in Waidhofen an der Ybbs. [ORF]

  • Have another listen to the performance of Verdi's Macbeth from the Wiener Staatsoper, starring George Petean (Macbeth), Ferrucio Furlanetto (Banquo), and Tatiana Serjan (Lady Macbeth). [RTBF]

  • Maxim Vengerov plays a recital to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Melbourne's Musica Viva series. [ABC Classic]

  • Adrien Perruchon leads pianist Javier Perianes and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris in music of Schumann, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]

  • Laurence Equilbey conducts the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales in Handel's Messiah, recorded at St. David's Hall, Cardiff. [BBC3]

  • The Hallé play music by Mendelssohn and Brahms, and Lars Vogt joins them in Schumann's Piano Concerto, recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. [BBC3]

  • Pianist Bertrand Chamayou plays a recital of music by Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, and Camille Saint-Saëns at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, recorded in 2012. [France Musique]

  • The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, under Daniel Barenboim, performs the last three Mozart symphonies at the United Nations in Geneva. [France Musique]

2 comments:

jfl said...

I was at that Peter Grimes last night... not entirely sure it's required listening, although the production was, well, interesting.

Charles T. Downey said...

Haha -- may we look forward to a review?