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26.10.14

Perchance to Stream: Ten Years Old 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.

  • From the Summer Opera Festival in Munich, a performance of Monteverdi's Orfeo, recorded last July in the Prinzregententheater, starring Christian Gerhaher and Anna Virovslansy and conducted by Ivor Bolton. [RTBF]

  • The Ensemble Les Paladins and conductor Jérôme Correas accompany soprano Sandrine Piau in music by Rameau, recorded this month at the Opéra de Montpellier. [France Musique]

  • The BBC Singers perform 40-voice music by Tallis, Striggio, and contemporary composers. [BBC3]

  • The Bavarian Radio Chorus and Il Giardino Armonico perform music by Carissimi, Händel, and Vivaldi. [BR-Klassik]

  • A complete concert performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte, featuring Cappella Amsterdam. [Avro Klassiek]

  • The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Vassily Sinaiski, performs Elgar's second symphony, plus Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, with Daniil Trifonov as soloist, recorded last May in Berlin. [France Musique]

  • In a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London, pianist Angela Hewitt performs Spanish-themed music. [BBC3]

  • A performance of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, recorded last month at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. [France Musique]

  • Vox Luminis performs music by Lassus in Roisin. [RTBF]

  • You can listen to Ernest Reyer's Sigurd, featuring Andrea Carè (Sigurd), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Brunehilde), and Anne Sophie Duprels (Hilda), recorded last year in Geneva. [ORF]

  • Ingo Metzmacher leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Schubert's oratorio Lazarus oder Die Feier der Auferstehung and Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum [ORF]

  • Listen to Manfred Honeck conduct the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Schnittke's (K)ein Sommernachtstraum, Haydn's 93rd symphony, and Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony. [RTBF]

  • A song recital by mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova and pianist Charles Spencer, with music by Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, recorded last May in Düsseldorf, as part of the Festival Schumann. [France Musique]

  • Vasily Petrenko leads the Oslo Philharmonic in music by Halvorsen, Bernstein, Respighi, plus Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. [RTBF]

  • Sakari Oramo leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Strauss, Grieg, Sibelius, and Stravinsky. [BBC3]

  • From Bruges, Vincent Dumestre leads Le Poème Harmonique with soprano Anne Magouët and other singers, performing Monteverdi madrigals and Vincenzo Ruffo's Missa quarti toni. [ORF]

  • Raphaël Pichon leads the Ensemble Pygmalion in cantatas by J. S. Bach and family, recorded this month at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. [France Musique]

  • Olari Elts conducts the Halle in music by Strauss, Chopin, Beethoven, and Brett Dean. [BBC3]

  • Ensemble Initium performs wind quintets by Franz Danzi, George Onslow, and Paul Taffanel, recorded this month at the Auditorium du Louvre. [France Musique]

  • A concert by the Danish String Quartet and Nightingale String Quartet, playing music by Langgaard, Nielsen, and Mendelssohn, recorded last July at the Frederiksvaerk Music Festival. [ORF]

  • The Tana Quartet plays a concert at the Festival Musica last month in Strasbourg. [France Musique]

  • From the Edinburgh Festival last August, a concert performed by violinist Renaud Capuçon and friends, with music by Korngold, Mahler, and Webern. [ORF]

  • Juanjo Mena conducts the BBC Philharmonic in music by Colin Matthews, Schubert, and Beethoven. [BBC3]

  • Listen to pianist Emanuel Ax in a concert with the Orchestre National de France, recorded in 2012 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, playing Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto and Dvorak's seventh symphony, with Colin Davis conducting. [France Musique]

  • Alain Altinoglu conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in music by Rossini, Berlioz, Stravinsky, and Ravel. [BBC3]

  • Listen to the recording of Gustav Albert Lortzing's opera Der Wildschütz oder Die Stimme der Natur, starring Hermann Prey and Fritz Wunderlich, recorded in Munich in 1963. [ORF]

  • Guitarist Sean Shibe performs music by Dowland, Bach, Henze, and Britten. [France Musique]

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