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6.3.16

Perchance to Stream: Nikolaus Harnoncourt 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.

  • Marian Rebeka and Juan Diego Flórez star in the production of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, under conductor Marco Armiliato, recorded at the Wiener Staatsoper. [ORF]

  • Watch the production of Handel's Alcina from the Grand Théâtre de Genève, starring Nicole Cabell. [ARTE]

  • From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Michael Spyres and Patricia Petibon star in a production of Mozart's Mithridate with Le Concert d'Astrée under conductor Emmanuelle Haim. [ARTE]

  • Have a listen to Michael William Balfe's opera The Bohemian Girl, in the 1991 Dublin recording with the Radio Telefis Eireann Philharmonic Choir, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and conductor Richard Bonynge, starring Nova Thomas (Arline), Patrick Power (Thaddeus), Jonathan Summers (Graf Arnheim), and others. [ORF]

  • Listen to the performance of Verdi's Luisa Miller from the Sydney Opera House, starring soprano Nicole Car. [ABC Classic]

  • Igor Levit and Julia Fischer play all the violin sonatas of Beethoven in three concerts at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. [France Musique]

  • Paul Van Nevel and the Huelgas Ensemble perform music by Cipriano de Rore, recorded last November at the Temple de Pentemont. [France Musique]

  • Eliahu Inbal conducts Bruckner's ninth symphony with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and Emmanuel Pahud plays Jörg Widmann's new flute concerto, at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]

  • Giovanni Antonini leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in music of Bach and Vivaldi, with soloists Anna Prohaska and others, recorded last September at the Münchner Prinzregententheater. [ORF | Part 2]

  • Christian Lindberg conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Nielsen's Fifth Symphony and his own piece Robot Gardens, commissioned for the orchestra's 175th anniversary. [BBC3]

  • Music of Satie played by Guillaume Vincent in a recital at the Auditorium du Musée d'Orsay. [France Musique]

  • Donald Runnicles leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and James MacMillan's violin concerto, recorded in Glasgow. [BBC3]

  • Watch Pina Bausch's choreography for The Nelken-Line. [ARTE]

  • Happy (belated) St. David's Day to all our Welsh friends! Listen to the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales play a St. David's Day concert, featuring music by Welsh composer Grace Williams (1906-77). [BBC3]

  • Emmanuel Pahud, Antoine Tamestit, and friends from the Berlin Philharmonic perform chamber music by Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, and Brahms, recorded last December in the Philharmonie Berlin. [ORF]

  • The Belcea Quartet plays music by Beethoven and Larcher, recorded in December at the Wiener Konzerthauses. [ORF]

  • Concerto Copenhagen, conducted by Alfredo Bernardini, performs music by Fux, Vivaldi, Zelenka, and others, recorded last November in Copenhagen. [ORF]

  • Fabien Gabel conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in music by Chausson, Falla, Debussy, and Stravinsky, with pianist Frank Braley as soloist. [BBC3]

  • The Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and John Adams's Scheherazade 2, with violinist Leila Josefowicz and conductor David Robertson. [ABC Classic]

  • Julien Masmondet conducts the Orchestre National de France in music of Haydn ("Surprise" Symphony) and Herbert Chappell (Paddington Bear). [France Musique]

  • The Ulster Orchestra plays music of Beethoven, including the second piano concerto with Jonathan Biss as soloist, plus The Blind Banister by Timo Andres. [BBC3]

  • The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, under Esa-Pekka Salonen, plus Ravel's piano concerto with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, recorded last year. [CSO]

  • The Trio Alba performs music for piano trio by Franz Schubert and Joseph Marx, recorded last month in Graz. [ORF]

  • The RTVE Symphony Orchestra, led by Carlos Kalmar, performs music by Claudio Prieto, Roberto Gerhard, and Glinka, recorded in January in Madrid. [ORF]

  • The Orchestre National d'Île de France performs music of Barber, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Anna Clyne, and Tchaikovsky, with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]

  • Accentus and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris perform Handel's Messiah at the Philharmonie de Paris, conducted by Douglas Boyd. [France Musique]

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