In Brief: Independence Day Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) The list is shorter than normal this week because the France Musique Web site is undergoing a renovation. We are assured that the concert streams will be reinstated in their new form soon.

• From the Styriarte Festival, Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads Concentus Musicus Wien, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and Genia Kühmeier in music of Haydn ("Lamentatione," "The Storm," and the "Lord Nelson Mass"). [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads a performance of Offenbach's Barbe-Bleu, with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Listen to a recital by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Malcolm Martineau, from Snape Maltings at the Aldeburgh Festival. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Watch Un Giorno di Regno, part of the Verdi festival at the Teatro Regio di Parma. [ARTE Live Web]


• Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Vaughan Williams and Dvořák, with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, in a concert in Prague. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Pianist Evgeni plays music by Bach, Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Ravel, in the Wiener Konzerthaus. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Les Arts Florissants perform music by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antoine Dauvergne, Christoph Willibald Gluck, André Campra, and others, in a concert last April at the Salle Pleyel. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• In a concert at Lambach Abbey, the Oktavian Ensemble plays music by Mozart, Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter, and Beethoven. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Concerts by the Vienna Piano Trio and the Wiener Kammerorchester at the Wiener Festwochen. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Violinist Hiro Kurosaki plays Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin, recorded in May at the Internationalen Barocktage Stift Melk. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]


• Julius Rudel leads a 1973 recording of Bellini's I Puritani, with the London Philharmonic, starring Beverly Sills (Elvira) and Nicolai Gedda (Arturo). [Österreichischer Rundfunk]