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16.11.14

Perchance to Stream: New Hall 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.

  • To inaugurate the new Auditorium de la Maison de Radio France, a double concert by the Orchestre National de France, under Daniele Gatti, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under Myung-Whun Chung. [France Musique]

  • Check out the new production of Musorgsky's Khovanshchina, in the revision completed by Shostakovich, from the Wiener Staatsoper with Semyon Bychkov conducting Ferruccio Furlanetto, Christopher Ventris, Elena Maximova, and others. [ORF]

  • Listen to the gala season opening concert of the Opéra Comique, with contributions from Anna Caterina Antonacci, Patricia Petibon, and others. [France Musique]

  • Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov play all of Beethoven's works for cello and piano at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. [France Musique | Part 2]

  • From the Festival Baroque de Pontoise, Sabine Devieilhe and Les Ambassadeurs perform arias and symphonies by Rameau with conductor Alexis Kosseko. [France Musique]

  • Harpsichordist Blandine Rannou plays the world premiere of Gérard Pesson's Le Tombeau de Rameau, plus some pieces from Rameau's Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a performance of Handel's Solomon with La Chapelle de Québec and Les Violons du Roy, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Karina Gauvin and conducted by Bernard Labadie, recorded last March at the Palais Montcalm de Québec. [France Musique]

  • A song recital by soprano Christina Landshamer and pianist Gerold Huber, with music by Schumann, Brahms, and Ullmann, recorded last May for the Bad Arolser Schlosskonzerte. [ORF]

  • Herbert Blomstedt leads the Vienna Philharmonic in music of Haydn and Beethoven. [ORF | Part 2]

  • The Ensemble Psallentes, directed by Hendrik Van Den Abeele performs with organist Arnaud Van De Cauter in a concert in the Eglise de La Chapelle in Brussels, recorded last August, introduced with the recording of Palestrina's Missa "Nasce la gioia mia" performed by the Tallis Scholars. [RTBF]

  • Arias by Alessandro Scarlatti with the English Concert, conductor Laurence Cummings, and soprano Elizabeth Watts, recorded at Milton Court in London. [BBC3]
  • Violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad joins the Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Eivind Aadland for music by Christian Sinding, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Robert Schumann. [RTBF]

  • The Netherlands Radio Choir performs Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom. [AVRO Klassiek]

  • A concert by violinist Ray Chen and pianist Timothy Young, presented by Musica Viva Australia at the Melbourne Recital Centre, with music by Mozart, Prokofiev, Bach, and Sarasate. [ABC Classic]

  • Simon Trpceski plays Tchaikovsky's first piano concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and conductor Daniele Rustioni. [France Musique]

  • A recital by Russian pianist Anna Vinnitskaya at the Wiener Konzerthaus, with music by Brahms, Debussy, Bach, and Prokofiev. [ORF]

  • Sequenza 9.3, the Jeune Chœur de Paris, and others perform new music by Daniel Moreira and others at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I. [France Musique]

  • Chamber music by Poulenc, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Dukas performed by violinist Gautier Capuçon and pianists Francesco Piemontesi, Nicholas Angelich, and Martha Argerich. [RTBF]

  • Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts Concerto Copenhagen and clarinetist Nicola Baud in music of Mozart ("Haffner" and "Jupiter" Symphonies, plus the clarinet concerto). [ORF]

  • From Glasgow, Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Mozart and Beethoven, to mark the conductor's 60th birthday. [BBC3]

  • A concert by the Berlin Philharmonic, with Daniel Barenboim conducting music by Nicolai, Elgar (the symphonic study Falstaff), and Tchaikovsky, recorded last January in Berlin. [RTBF]

  • The Radio Filharmonisch Orkest performs music by Liszt, Schumann, and Macmillan. [AVRO Klassiek]

  • Pianist Kirill Gerstein joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Herrmann, Schoenberg, Gershwin, and Bartok. [BBC3]

  • Charles Dutoit and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform music by Respighi, plus William Walton's Sinfonia Concertante with pianist Danny Driver, recorded at the Proms last September. [ORF]

  • The Henschel Quartet performs music by Beethoven, Dvorak, and Brahms at St John's, Smith Square. [BBC3]

  • A tribute to Belgian composer Albert Huybrechts (1899-1938), with some rare recordings of his music. [RTBF]

  • Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France in Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, with commentary for a family concert. [France Musique]

  • Esther Hoppe (violin), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), and Alexander Lonquich (piano) perform music by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Britten, recorded at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in July. [ORF]

1 comment:

Gary said...

Thanks for posting the Opera Comique concert! I was just in Paris and tried to get tickets, but it was sold out.