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Perchance to Stream: Georg Solti 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 concert by the World Orchestra for Peace, honoring the 100th birthday of conductor Georg Solti, recorded at the Chicago Symphony Center. [ARTE]

  • Zubin Mehta conducts the Vienna Philharmonic for his own 80th birthday concert, joined by pianist Daniel Barenboim for Schumann's piano concerto, plus Bruckner's seventh symphony. [Ö1 | Part 2]

  • Zubin Mehta also celebrates his 80th birthday with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and George Enescu Chorus, joined by tenor Marius Vlad Buoiu, performing Enescu's Vox Maris and Mahler's ninth symphony, recorded last year in Bucharest. [Ö1]

  • Watch Laurence Equilbey lead a performance of Mozart's Lucio Silla, with the Insula Orchestra and the Jeune Choeur de Paris, and starring Franco Fagioli. [Philharmonie de Paris]

  • The Quatuor Ébène plays music by Haydn, Debussy, and Beethoven, recorded at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [Ö1]

  • Bertrand Chamayou, Ismaël Margain, Magali Mosnier, Henri Demarquette, and Alexandra Soumm perform chamber music at the Festival de Pâques de Deauville. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a piano recital by Stephen Hough, recorded in Sydney, with music by Schubert, Liszt, Franck, and Hough. [ABC Classic]

  • Marin Alsop leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in music of Brahms and Schumann, joined by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London. [Ö1]

  • Pianist Lise de La Salle performs a recital including music by Bach, Ravel, Debussy, and Brahms, recorded at the Auditorium du Louvre. [France Musique]

  • Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Berg's Seven Early Songs (with Camilla Tilling), plus music by Lutosławski and Brahms. [ABC Classic]

  • Hungarian mezzo-soprano Dorottya performs Lieder by Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, and other, accompanied by Helmut Deutsch at the piano and recorded in March at the Schloss Rothschild in Waidhofen an der Ybbs. [Ö1]

  • Jakub Hrusa leads a perform of muic by Smetana with the Vienna Symphony, recorded in 2014. [Ö1]

  • The Hallé performs music by Bach, Stravinsky, and Schumann, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. [BBC3]

  • Chamber music by Beethoven and Brahms performed by the Quatuor Renaud Capuçon, recorded in January at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]

  • Ilan Volkov conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Alexandre Tharaud and soprano Sarah Tynan, in music by Debussy, Hans Abrahamsen, and Mahler (fourth symphony). [BBC3]

  • From the 1980 Innsbruck Festival, René Jacobs leads a selection of pieces from the operas of Antonio Cesti, including singing some of the countertenor parts (!), with one William Christie at the organ and harpsichord. [Ö1]

  • Listen to the debuts of conductor Marcelo Lehninger and pianist Nathalia Milstein with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, combining Chopin's first piano concerto and Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony. [France Musique]

  • From last year's Proms, The Cardinall's Musick performs music of Thomas Tallis, led by Andrew Carwood at the Cadogan Hall in London. [Ö1]

  • Riccardo Muti conducts music by Chabrier, Ginastera, Ravel, and Stravinsky, recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2015 and 2014. [CSO]

  • Lars Vogt conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia in music of Mozart, Smetana, and Dvorak, with cellist Tanja Tetzlaff. [BBC3]

  • The BBC Philharmonic, under conductor Andrew Gourlay, performs music inspired by Shakespeare. [BBC3]

  • Have a listen to the recording of Verdi's La Traviata starring Anja Harteros (Violetta) and Piotr Beczala (Alfredo), recorded in Munich in 2006 under Zubin Mehta. [Ö1]

  • The Orchestre National de Lille performs music by Parra, Haydn, Arban, and Brahms, under conductor Lorenzo Viotti. [France Musique]

  • Joshua Weilerstein conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Rouse, Ravel, Dessner, and Bernstein. [BBC3]

  • From a concert recorded in March at the Philharmonie de Paris, pianist Nicholas Angelich and the Insula Orchestra jouent Beethoven, under conductor Laurence Equilbey. [France Musique]

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