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24.8.14

Perchance to Stream: Back to School 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, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast. Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

  • Watch the production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier from the Salzburg Festival, directed by Harry Kupfer and conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, starring Krassimira Stoyanova, Sophie Koch, and Mojca Erdmann. [Medici.tv]

  • From the Bayreuth Festival, a performance of Siegfried, recorded last month, with Kirill Petrenko conducting a cast lead by Lance Ryan, Wolfgang Koch, and Catherine Foster. [France Musique]

  • Watch the production of Tannhäuser from the Bayreuther Festspiele. [BR-Klassik]

  • Listen to a performance of Massenet's Cendrillon starring Joyce DiDonato, Ewa Podlés, and Alice Coote, conducted by Andrew Davis last January at the Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona. [ORF]

  • Listen to a performance of Britten's War Requiem from the Royal Albert Hall, with Andris Nelsons, Susan Gratton, and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. [France Musique]

  • The Tallis Scholars and conductor Peter Phillips are joined by the Heath Quartet to perform the Requiem Fragments, composed by John Tavener shortly before his death. [BBC Proms]

  • Diabolus in Musica performs settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Bernard Ycart and Alexandre Agricola, from the Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. [France Musique]

  • Baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber perform songs by Schubert and Wolfgang Rihm at the Salzburg Festival. [ORF]

  • From Cadogan Hall, a recital of songs by Debussy and Strauss performed by soprano Anne Schwanewilms and pianist Malcolm Martineau. [BBC Proms]

  • Watch Andris Nelsons conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus in the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, with Sara Mingardo as soloist, plus the second symphony of the same composer. [Arte]

  • From the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, a performance of Mahler's sixth symphony, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic. [RTBF]

  • Listen to the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester and countertenor Philippe Jaroussky at the Salzburg Festival in new music by Marc-Andre Dalbavie, a concert reviewed by our man in Salzburg. [ORF]

  • The Freiburger Barockorchester, with mezzo-soprano Gaelle Arquez and harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim, perform music by C.P.E. Bach, Gluck, and Jommelli, recorded last March in Freiburg. [ORF]

  • Andrew Manze leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams's Pastoral Symphony and music by Rudi Stephan, Frederick Kelly, and George Butterworth. [BBC Proms]

  • From the Festival Aix en Provence, music of Mozart, Haydn, and J.P. Salomon performed by pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. [France Musique]

  • Pianist Beatrice Rana joins the Quatuor Zaïde for music by Janáček, Mozart, and Schumann, at the Annecy Classic Festival. [Medici.tv]

  • Watch more videos from the Annecy Classic Festival. [Medici.tv]

  • Listen to Iceland Symphony Orchestra under conductor Ilan Volkov perform music by Haukur Tómasson, Jon Leifs, Schumann, and Beethoven. [BBC Proms]

  • The Belcea Quartet plays three string quartets by Beethoven at the Théâtre de Vevey, recorded last in 2013. [RTBF]

  • The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, under conductor Neville Marriner, performs music by Beethoven, Bruch (violin concerto with Joshua Bell), and Walton (Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario). [BBC Proms]

  • Cellist Steven Isserlis, violinist Joshua Bell, and violist Lawrence Power perform music by Debussy, Fauré, Stravinsky, Kodály, and Elgar, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [ORF]

  • Listen to the London Symphony Orchestra, under Bernard Haitink, in Mahler's fourth symphony and Schubert's fifth symphony. [BBC Proms]

  • From Uppsala, a performance of some Mozart violin concerti with Brice Pauset, David Grimal, and the ensemble Les Dissonances. [France Musique]

  • Baiba Skride joins conductor Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky's violin concerto, plus music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff's The Bells. [BBC Proms]

  • Stravinsky's Concertino, Shostakovich's 7th string quartet, Janacek's first quartet, and the world premiere of Georges Boeuf's Couleurs du Vent, performed by the Quatuor Béla in the église du Hameau de Saint-Michel for the Festival de Chaillol. [France Musique]

  • Sakari Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Rimsky-Korsakov and Szymanowski (Songs of a Fairytale Princess), plus Ravel and a new work by Jukka Tiensuu. [BBC Proms]

  • The Sirine Choir of Moscow performs Russian sacred music at the Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet. [France Musique]

  • Listen to Sibelius's fifth symphony, with Thomas Søndergård conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. [BBC Proms]

  • The Quatuor Voce plays music by Mozart, Turina, and Brahms, recorded at the Eglise de Yenne as part of the Festival des nuits d'été. [France Musique]

  • Baritone Roderick Williams joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Butterworth’s setting from Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. [BBC Proms]

  • From the Parc Floral de Paris as part of the Festival Classique au Vert, pianist Andrei Korobeinikov plays music by Keith Jarrett, Bach, Beethoven, and Scott Joplin. [France Musique]

  • Andrew Davis conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in music of Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique), Strauss, and Elgar. [BBC Proms]

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