Perchance to Stream: Candlemas 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.

• Vittorio Grigolo, Erin Morley, Christine Rice, and Thomas Hampson star in a production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann, recorded at the Metropolitan Opera. [ORF]


• Baroque music from Venice performed at the Folle Journée de Nantes by Cappella Mediterranea and soprano Mariana Flores. [France Musique]


• Concerto Köln performs music by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and two of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerti in Nantes. [France Musique]


• Listen to Joseph Calleja and Dmitri Hvorostovsky starring in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, recorded at Covent Garden. [Radio Clásica]


• Angelika Kirchschlager and conductor Pinchas Steinberg join the Orchestre National de France to play music by Mendelssohn, Mahler (the Rückert Lieder), and Smetana. [France Musique]


• Listen to two concerts inaugurating the newly renovated performing space in the Chapelle musicale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels. [RTBF | Part 2]


• Listen to Verdi's Nabucco with Placido Domingo, recorded in Vienna. [RTBF]


• Soprano Alda Caeillo joins the Prazak Quartet for music by Brahms, Mozart, and Berg, recorded at the Cité de la Musique in Paris. [France Musique]


• Conductor Neeme Järvi and mezzo-soprano Lilli Paasikivi join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, for music by Haydn, Strauss, and others. [ORF]


• Music of Brahms and Beethoven from the Barbican Hall, with David Afkham conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and pianist Nicholas Angelich. [BBC3]


• Carlos Kalmar conducts the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's seventh symphony, plus music by Turina. [Radio Clásica]


• Pianist Roger Muraro joins conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Mozart's 20th piano concerto (with the soloist's own cadenzas), plus Bruckner's seventh symphony. [France Musique]


• James Conlon conducts music of Barber, Bach, Debussy, and Poulenc with the Choeur et Orchestre de Paris, recorded in the Salle Pleyel. [France Musique]

• Kirill Karabits conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in music by Berlioz, Chopin, and Schumann, with Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva. [BBC3]


• Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for music by Brahms, Shostakovich, and Ravel. [RTBF]


• The Camerata Salzburg, with conductor Juraj Valcuha and pianist Piotr Anderszewski, perform music by Schubert and Mozart at the Mozartwoche Salzburg. [ORF]


• From the Auditorium du Louvre, pianist Andrei Korobeinikov gives a recital centered on the music of Liszt. [France Musique]


• Nicolas Dautricourt and Michel Dalberto join the Modigliani Quartet for music by Ravel, Debussy, and Chausson, recorded at the Abbaye d'Epau. [France Musique]


• From a concert recorded last June in Regensburg, the choir Vox Luminis performs music by Heinrich Schütz and members of the Bach family. [ORF]


• The Trio Les Esprits, with pianist Adam Laloum, perform Beethoven's piano trio, op. 70/1, and music of Schumann. [France Musique]


• Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili joins the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for music by Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt. [BBC3]


• Vladimir Jurowski leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, with pianist Alexander Toradze, in music of Holst and Schoenberg. [ORF]


• Grzegorz Nowak conducts the Sinfonia Varsovia at the Salle Pleyel in music by Szymanowski, Chopin, and Mendelssohn, with pianist Rafal Blechacz as soloist. [France Musique]


• I Musicali Affetti perform three-voice cantatas from Baroque Rome, recorded last November in Vicenza. [ORF]

• The Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Ainars Rubikis perform music by Sibelius, Beethoven, and Mark Anthony Turnage. [BBC3]


• Also from Nantes, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and the Modigliani Quartet perform the Brahms piano quintet. [France Musique]


• Music by contemporary composers, including Marko Nikodijevic and Francesco Filidei, performed by Ensemble 2e2m at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Paris. [France Musique]


• Pianist Andrei Korobeinikov and the Orchestra d'Auvergne perform Hindemith's ballet score for The Four Temperaments and Shostakovich's chamber symphony, op. 110. [France Musique]


• Baroque music performed by Nevermind and XVIII - 21 Le Baroque Nomade. [France Musique]


• The Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, under conductor Pascal Rophé, perform Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. [France Musique]


• Violinist Viktor Tretiakov, cellist Henri Demarquette, and pianist Boris Berezovsky perform Tchaikovsky's op. 50 string trio in Nantes. [France Musique]


• Have another listen to the broadcast of Puccini's La Bohème frm the Metropolitan Opera. [France Musique]


• The choral group Voces8 performs Renaissance polyphony (and lesser music) at the Folle Journée de Nantes. [France Musique]