In Brief: Happy Birthday Edition

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

• Watch Emmanuelle Haïm conduct Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea from the Opéra de Lille (embedded here). [ARTE Live Web]


• To celebrate his 40th birthday, Evgeny Kissin plays Chopin with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under Myung-Whun Chung. [France Musique]


• From Vienna's Konzerthaus, the Wiener Klaviertrio plays music by Mozart, Engel, and Schubert. [France Musique]


• Pianist Stephen Hough plays a recital of music by Scriabin, Liszt, and Stephen Hough. [France Musique]


• Andris Nelsons leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Debussy's La Mer and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Jonas Kaufmann (with a set of Strauss songs to boot). [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• The early music ensemble Les Paladins performs music by Lully and Baroque composers. [France Musique]


• Christophe Rousset directs Les Talens Lyriques in music by Carissimi and Charpentier. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Arditti Quartet join the Orchestre national de Lyon, under conductor Pascal Rophé, playing music by Jérôme Combier, Michael Jarrell, Johannes Maria Staud, and Henri Dutilleux. [France Musique]


• Countertenor Andreas Scholl appears on ARTE Lounge, singing Purcell and Haydn. ARTE Live Web]


• Pianists Alexander Lonquich and Cristina Barbuti join the Orchestra de la Suisse Italienne in Lugano, for a concert of music by Liszt, Veress, and Beethoven. [France Musique]


• Pianist Paul Lewis performs a recital of Schubert's music. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Les Arts Florissants performs Charpentier's La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers and John Blow's Venus and Adonis at the Cité de la musique. [France Musique]


• A rebroadcast of Verdi's Don Carlos from the Wiener Staatsoper, with Franco Corelli, Shirley Verrett, and Edita Gruberova, from 1970. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Cellist Antonio Meneses joins Daniele Gatti and the Orchestre National de France in music by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Ravel, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]