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14.2.16

Perchance to Stream: Cold Snap 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.

  • A performance of the Requiem Mass by Sigismund Neukomm, dedicated to the memory of Louis XVI, with the Choeur de Chambre de Namur and La Grande Écurie et La Chambre du Roy led by Jean-Claude Malgoire, recorded last month at La Chapelle Royale de Versailles. [France Musique]

  • Watch the production of Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel from Brussels, billed as the Chicago-based company Manual Cinema combining film projections, shadow puppetry, and live acting in an immersive family experience. [De Munt]

  • Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, in the two-piano version, performed by Adam Laloum et David Kadouch, recorded in Nantes. [France Musique]

  • The Trio Wanderer performs music for piano trio by Schubert, recorded in Nantes. [France Musique]

  • Watch the closing concert of La Folle Journée de Nantes. [ARTE]

  • Gottfried Goltz leads the Freiburger Barockorchester, with mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez and harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim, in music by C.P.E. Bach, Homilius, Gluck, and Jommelli, recorded in Freiburg in 2014. [ORF}

  • Watch Jordi Savall lead Hesperion XXI in a concert called Le Voyage d'Ibn Battuta. [Philharmonie de Paris]

  • As a preview of Steven Osborne's recital at the Phillips Collection later this month, he plays the same program of music by Schubert, Debussy, and Rachmaninov at St John's Smith Square, London. [BBC3]

  • The Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Clark Rundell, performs works by Steve Martland, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen at the Barbican Hall in London. [BBC3]

  • Music of Mendelssohn (Wie der Hirsch schreit among other pieces) performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Pablo Heras-Casado, with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Dorothea Röschmann, and other soloists, recorded last month at the Salzburg Mozartwoche. [ORF | Part 2]

  • As part of their series 'Marin, Madness and Music', Marin Alsop conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in music of Brahms and Schumann, with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. [BBC3}

  • Music by Ivan Fedele, Sebastian Rivas, and Gianvincenzo Cresta at the Présences Festival with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and conductor Pascal Rophé. [France Musique]

  • An hommage to Louis XIV at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival by the Basel Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Stefano Barneschi, with Baroque opera pieces by Cavalli, Handel, Lully, Porpora, Ariosti, Rossi, and others. [France Musique]

  • Violinist Christian Tetzlaff plays Bach's second solo partita, recorded in 2015 at St. Luke's, London, followed by Hannu Lintu leading the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Kalevi Aho's Symphony No. 16 for 60 strings, four percussionists, and mezzo-soprano (Virpi Räisänen), recorded last September in Helsinki. [ORF]

  • Listen to a recital by soprano Krassimira Stoyanova and pianist Ludmil Angelov, with music by Bellini, Verdi, Mussorgsky, and others, recorded last month at the Vienna Musikverein. [ORF]

  • Pianist Dezsö Ranki joins Daniele Gatti and the Orchestre National de France in music by Beethoven and Bartok. [France Musique]

  • Zefira Valova conducts flutist Maurice Steger and Il Pomo d'Oro in concertos by Vivaldi and a symphony by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello. [France Musique]

  • Vassily Sinaisky conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition, plus Shostakovich's first violin concerto with soloist Boris Brovtsyn, recorded in Abedeen. [BBC3]

  • Listen to James Ehnes play Britten's violin concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. [ABC Classic]

  • From the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, a recital by pianist Stefano Bollani and cellist Sol Gabetta, with music by Vivaldi and Piazzola. [France Musique]

  • From last March, a performance of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, starring Anne Sofie von Otter, Willard White, and Christine Rice. [ORF]

  • Cellist Sol Gabetta plays a concert with Jean-Yves Thibaudet at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, with music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Chopin, and Rachmaninov. [France Musique]

  • From the Salzburg Mozartwoche last week, violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianist Kit Armstrong play music of Mozart. [ORF]

  • From a 2014 concert, Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's ninth symphony, plus Schumann's piano concerto with Mitsuko Uchida as soloist, and Schubert's third symphony, recorded in 2012, as a bonus. [CSO]

  • Yutaka Sado conducts the Tonkünstler Orchester Niederösterreich in symphonies by Haydn ("Le Midi") and Bruckner (no. 4), recorded at the Vienna Musikverein. [ORF]

  • Laurent Petitgirard leads the Orchestre Colonne in music by Patrick Burgan, Strauss, and Walton. [France Musique]

  • Listen to the recording of Richard Wagner's Das Liebesverbot, starring Michael Nagy (Friedrich), Charles Reid (Claudio), Peter Bronder (Luzio), and Christine Libor (Isabella), recorded in Frankfurt. [ORF]

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