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10.1.16

Perchance to Stream: Boulez Est Mort 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.

  • Watch the tribute performance of Pierre Boulez's Repons with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Matthias Pintscher. [Philharmonie de Paris]

  • Listen to Pierre Boulez conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Schoenberg's Transfigured Night, Piano Concerto, and Variations for Orchestra, plus the Nocturnes of Debussy, recorded in 2009 and 2005. [France Musique]

  • From 1981, the Orchestre National de France, under Pierre Boulez, performs Stravinsky's Le Chant du Rossignol, Schoenberg's Pélleas et Mélisande, and Boulez's Le soleil des eaux, with soprano Phyllis Bryn Julson. [France Musique]

  • Watch Pierre Boulez speak about his composition Sur incises and conduct it. [France Info]

  • Music of Pergolesi, Ferrandini, and Vivaldi performed by Les Accents and Thibault Noally, plus singers Ana Quintans and Marianne Crebassa, recorded last November at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. [France Musique]

  • Pianist András Schiff plays Bach's Goldberg-Variationen this past August at the Royal Albert Hall in London during the Proms. [ORF]

  • Jesús López Cobos conducts a performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, starring Jean-François Lapointe (Guillaume Tell) and Nadine Koutcher (soprano) (Mathilde), recorded last September. [Radio Clásica]

  • Listen to the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring Sondra Radvanovsky (Anna Bolena), Ildar Abdrazakov (Enrico), and Jamie Barton (Giovanna Seymour), conducted by Marco Armiliato. [ORF]

  • The contemporary music ensemble Psappha performs music by Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, and George Crumb, recorded at St Michael's in Ancoats in Manchester. [BBC3]

  • From Toulouse, Gustavo Dudamel leads the Simon Bolivar Orchestra and pianist Yuja Wang in Messiaen's colossal Turangalîlâ-Symphonie. [France Musique]

  • Alan Gilbert conducts the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in music by Brahms, Beethoven, and Haydn, recorded at Cadogan Hall in London. [BBC3]

  • Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic perform a Haydn symphony, Iván Eröd's concerto for three clarinets, and Beethoven's third symphony. [ORF | Part 2]

  • Joshua Rifkin leads Concerto Palatino and soloists in a performance of Monteverdi's Mass on In illo tempore and Sacri Concentus, recorded last May in Regensburg. [ORF]

  • Music of Gabrieli, Scheidt, Biber, Vivaldi, Bach, and Locke performed by Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, recorded at the Palace of Sans-Souci last June. [ORF]

  • Music of Ravel, Stravinsky, Mantovani, and Paul Dukas for piano, four hands, performed by Jean-François Heisser and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger at the Théâtre Des Bouffes Du Nord. [France Musique]

  • The Heath Quartet and pianist James Baillieu play music by Mozart and Elgar, recorded at the Wigmore Hall in London. [BBC3]

  • Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Steven Osborne perform chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvorak, recorded last October at the church of St. Luke in London. [RTBF]

  • Bernard Haitink conducts Bruckner's eighth symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, recorded last August at the Salzburg Festival. [ORF]

  • From the Lucerne Festival last August, Bernard Haitink conducts Haydn's "Il distratto" symphony and Mahler's fourth symphony, with soprano Anna Lucia Richter. [RTBF]

  • From 2014 at the Wielki Theater in Poznań, Alexis Kossneko conducts a performance of Handel's Tamerlano, starring Francisco Fernandez-Rueda, Emöke Barath, and others. [RTBF]

  • The SWR Vokalensemble and Radio Symphony Orchestra, under Peter Rundel, perform music by Helmut Lachenmann to mark the composer's 80th birthday. [BBC3]

  • Charles Dutoit leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in music of Ravel, Debussy, Lalo, and Saint-Saëns, with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist. [CSO]

  • Listen to a concert by the Basel Chamber Orchestra and cellist Sol Gabetta, recorded last November in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]

  • Sofi Jeannin leads a performance of Orff's Carmina Burana with the percussionists of the Orchestre National de France and the Choeur et Maîtrise de Radio France. [France Musique]

  • A recital by pianist Alexandre Tharaud, recorded in 2014 at the Théâtre de l'heure-bleue in La Chaux-de-Fonds, with music by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, and Bach. [RTBF]

  • From 2014, a Bach cantata and other music performed by Christine Schäfer and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. [RTBF]

  • Flutist Emmanuel Pahud and friends perform chamber music by Rossini and Mozart, recorded last April in Switzerland. [ORF]

  • A recital by soprano Siobhan Stagg and pianist Eidit Golder, with music by Korngold and Strauss, recorded in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]

  • Truls Mørk plays cello concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Luigi Boccherini with Harry Bicket and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, in a concert that also includes music by Mozart and Haydn. [France Musique]

  • Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts Concerto Copenhagen in a performance of Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, starring Vivica Genaux (Piacere), Maria Keohane (Bellezza), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno), and Jörg Dürmüller (Tempo), recorded in Vienna in 2011. [ORF]

  • Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Rachmaninoff's third piano concert, with Daniil Trifonov as soloist, and Brahms's second symphony, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris last June. [RTBF]

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