Perchance to Stream: Concert de Noël Edition

Here is a special Christmas selection of links to online audio and online video for your holiday delectation as you cook and celebrate with friends and family. 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. Merry Christmas to you and yours!

• Bach's Christmas Oratorio from the Philharmonie de Paris, with Le Poème Harmonique and Accentus. [Part 1 | Part 2]


• Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Akademie für Alte Musik and René Jacobs (from 1996). [Ö1]


• Concert de Noël from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. [France Musique]


• Angela Meade stars in Rossini's "Hermione," with Alberto Zedda at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]


• Daniel Harding conducts Schumann's 'Das Paradies und die Peri' with Matthias Goerne. [Philharmonie de Paris]


• Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Vienna Philharmonic and soprano Sandrine Piau in music of Handel. [Ö1]


• Recital by pianist Alain Planès at the Bouffes du Nord, music by Schubert, Shostakovich. [ARTE]


• Recital by Daniil Trifonov at Carnegie Hall, music by Schumann, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. [Medici.tv]


• Riccardo Chailly conducts the original version of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, recorded at La Scala. [BR-KLassik]


• Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform Haydn and Mozart in Geneva. [Medici.tv]


• Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein play recital for two pianos at Fondation Louis Vuitton. [Medici.tv]


• Mussorgsky's 'Boris Godounov' (original version) starring Bryn Terfel, from the BBC Proms. [France Musique]


• Herbert Blomstedt leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Franz Berwald's Third Symphony and Dvorak. [France Musique]


• From Festival de Royaumont, recital by harpsichordist Andreas Staier. [France Musique]


• Katia and Marielle Labèque in Osvaldo Golijov's 'Nazareno' inter alia. [France Musique]


• Mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Sarrebruck-Kaiserslautern. [ARTE]


• Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the ONF in the Concert de Noël, with all American music. [France Musique]


• Tasmanian Symphony Orch, excerpts from 'Tristan und Isolde' with Nina Stemme, Stuart Skelton. [ABC Classic]


• 'Das Rheingold' at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Die Walküre' (Part 1) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Die Walküre' (Part 2) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Siegfried' (Part 1) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Siegfried' (Part 2) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Götterdämmerung' (Part 1) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• 'Götterdämmerung' (Part 2) at Opera Australia in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• Organist Peter Peinstingl and trumpeter Dávid Ottmár in music of Buxtehude, Tomasi, others. [Ö1]


• Tugan Sokhiev, Berlin Philharmonic in Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade'. [Ö1]


• Tugan Sokhiev leads Berlin Philharmonic and pianist Nikolai Lugansky, Franck's Le chasseur maudit. [Ö1]


• Recording of Donizetti's 'Lucia di Lammermoor' with Edita Gruberová and Alfredo Kraus. [Ö1]


• Danish National Symphony Orchestra with violinist James Ehnes. [Ö1]


• Dutilleux, Jarrell, Posadas,and Guerrero with Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. [France Musique]


• Greatest hits from Charles Dutoit conducting the Orchestre National de France. [France Musique]


• The Quatuor Hermès plays music by Gilbert Amy, György Ligeti, and Joseph Haydn. [France Musique]


• Pianists Wilhem Latchoumia and Jay Gottlieb play music by Stravinsky, Bach, Widmann, and Satie. [France Musique]