In Brief: Season Opening Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond.

• Bach, Keyboard Works, A. Hewitt

  Listen to Angela Hewitt's recital, of Bach and Chopin, at the Wigmore Hall. [France Musique]


• Watch the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris perform Sibelius's Pelléas et Mélisande and Poulenc's La Voix humaine. [Cité de la musique]


• Hear the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France play Bruckner's sixth symphony, in the Salle Pleyel. [France Musique]


• The new Music Center in Helsinki was opened with a concert of music by Sibelius, which you can watch. [ARTE Live Web]


• Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien play music by Szymanowski, Philippe Hersant, and Beethoven at the Pavillon des Azalées des Serres d'Auteuil. [France Musique]


• Watch some of the competing young conductors in the 52e Concours International de jeunes chefs d’orchestre de Besançon. [ARTE Live Web]


• Pianist Sun-Young Nam and Ensemble Linea play a program of Xenakis, Dorokhov, Stockhausen, and Hanna Eimermacher, at the Abbaye de Royaumont. [France Musique]


• The Vox Luminis ensemble performs sacred music by Purcell at the MidSummer Festival. [ARTE Live Web]


• Daniele Gatti leads the Orchestre National de France, in Enescu, Debussy, and Dukas, at the Théâtre du Châtelet. [France Musique]


• Later this week, there will be online video of Pierre Boulez conducting Pli selon pli with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. [ARTE Live Web]