In Brief: Jeff's Birthday Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• A performance of Rameau's Zaïs, recorded at La Cour des Hospices for the Beaune Festival, performed by the Choeur de Namur and Les Talens Lyriques and conducted by Christophe Rousset. [France Musique]


• Listen to the six motets of J. S. Bach performed by Les Maîtrises de Radio France et Notre-Dame de Paris, recorded earlier this month at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris. [France Musique]


• Roger Norrington conducts Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri, starring contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, with the Choeur Aèdes and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. [France Musique]


• Christian Thielemann, the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Herbert von Karajan, with a performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass, plus music of Wolfgang Rihm and Richard Strauss, recorded at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg last April. [ORF | Part 2]


• Listen to a production of Rossini's La gazzetta from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, conducted by Jan Schultsz. [RTBF]


• From the York Early Music Festival, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers perform music by William Mundy, John Sheppard, and Richard Davy. [BBC3]


• The Cuarteto Casals performs music by Mozart and Schubert last month at the Schloss Eggenberg. [ORF]


• From the Styriarte Festival, a performance of Purcell's Fairy Queen, starring Dorothea Röschmann, Florian Boesch, and others, with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien, and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt. [ORF]


• Soprano Sophie Karthaüser and the Orfeo Barockorchester perform music by Mozart and Grétry. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Don't Tread on Me Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• The Collegium Vocale Gent performs music by J.S. and Johann Michael Bach, with soprano Dorothée Mields, countertenor Damien Guillon, tenor Thomas Hobbs, and bass Peter Kooij, under Philippe Herreweghe. [France Musique]


• From La Monnaie in Brussels, listen to Hervé Niquet conduct a production of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice, starring Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Sabine Devieilhe. [RTBF]


• Listen to a perform of Richard Strauss's Daphne, recorded last month at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, with Hartmut Haenchen conducting a cast led by Anna Larsson (Gaea), Claudia Barainsky (Daphne), and Andreas Schager (Apollo). [France Musique]


• Marlis Petersen and Arturo Chacón-Cruz star in a production of Verdi's La Traviata, recorded earlier this month at the Theater an der Wien, with Sian Edwards at the podium. [ORF]


• The Quatuor Mosaïques play string quartets by Matthias Georg Monn, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Telemann, and Haydn, in a concert recorded last month at Melk Abbey. [ORF]


• A recital by pianist Alexandre Tharaud at the Wigmore Hall, recorded by BBC3. [Part 1 | Part 2]

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In Brief: End of June Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Listen to the French premiere of the chamber version of Kaija Saariaho's La Passion de Simone, with Clément Mao-Takacs conducting the Secession Orchestra and sopranos Karen Vourc'h and Raquel Camarinha, mezzo-soprano Magali Paliès, tenor Johan Viau, and bass Florent Baffi. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Rossini's opera buffa La Gazzetta from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, directed by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera. [Medici.tv]


• Alexandre Tharaud performs music by Couperin and Scarlatti, plus Franck's piano quintet with the Cuarteto Casals. [RTBF]


• Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays music by Debussy, Chopin, Ligeti, and Bartok at the Aldeburgh Festival. [BBC3]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Philippe Jordan leads the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris and baritone Thomas Hampson in a program of music by Berlioz, Wagner, and Strauss. [ORF]


• Cellist Misha Maisky and conductor Evgeny Svetlanov join the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for a concert of music by Paul Dukas and Ernest Bloch. [France Musique]


• Pianist Elisso Virssaladze joins the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, under conducter Evgeny Svetlanov, with music by Debussy, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Svetlanov, and Tchaikovsky. [France Musique]


• The Clemencic Consort, with countertenor Markus Forster and tenors Gernot Heinrich und Tore Tom Denys, perform medieval French motets from the Bamberg Codex, recorded at the Wiener Musikverein. [ORF]


• Watch Tugan Sokhiev conduct the Orchestre National du Capitole in Mahler's third symphony in Toulouse, with the splendid Anna Larsson as soloist. [Medici.tv]


• The Vienna Philharmonic play a commemorative concert, in memory of World War I, with music by Haydn, Schubert, Berg, Brahms, and Ravel. [BBC3]


• Music by Rautavaara (violin concerto, Cantus Arcticus) and Debussy, with violinist Hilary Hahn and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. [France Musique]


• Gustavo Dudamel leads the Berlin Philharmonic in music of Tchaikovsky and Brahms at the Waldbühne. [Medici.tv]

• A concert recorded at Ircam in Paris, during the ManiFeste festival this month, features the world premiere of a new work by Philippe Leroux (b. 1959), Quid sit musicus?, which incorporates and extends from 14th-century pieces by Guillaume Machaut and others. [France Musique]


• Chamber music by Schubert, Mozart, and Dvorak performed by pianist Till Fellner and the Belcea Quartet. [RTBF]


• From Glyndebourne, a production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, directed by Jonathan Kent. [Glyndebouorne]


• Watch cellist Stéphane Tétreault and pianist Marie-Eve Scarfone, from Canada, perform at the Flâneries Musicales d'été de Reims. [Medici.tv]


• François-Xavier Roth conducts music by Beethoven, Dukas, and Dutilleux, with cellist Gauthier Capuçon and the Ensemble Les Siècles. [France Musique]


• The Baroque orchestra La Cetra and its vocal ensemble perform Handel's serenata Il Parnasso in Festa, with Carlos Federico Sepúlveda conducting soloists Carlos Mena, Maria Espada, David Hansen, and others in the Rococo theater of the Schwetzinger Schloss. [ORF]


• Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Mahler's first symphony and the second violin concerto of Bartók, with Gil Shaham as soloist. [BR-Klassik]


• Evgeny Svetlanov also leads music of Mahler and Rachmaninoff, with pianist Stanislav Neuhaus and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra and the ORTF National Orchestra. [France Musique]


• A program of early music from Spain performed by the Huelgas Ensemble, conducted by Paul Van Nevel. [RTBF]


• Martin Yates conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra at Dorchester Abbey last month, with violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck, in music of Parry, Bax, Rutland Boughton, and E. J. Moeran. [ORF]


• The Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Patrick Lange and with organist Gunther Rost, perform music of Strauss, Poulenc, and Saint-Saëns. [ORF]


• More Evgeny Svetlanov, again with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, in music of Khachaturian, Dvořák, Svetlanov, and Ravel, with violonist Silvia Marcovici. [France Musique]


• Music of Falla, Rodrigo, and Miaskovsky with guitarist Manuel Barrueco, cellist Alexander Kniazev, and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, under Evgeny Svetlanov interprètent. [France Musique]

In Brief: Back from the Lake Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Paul Agnew leads members of Les Arts Florissants in a complete performance of Monteverdi's seventh book of madrigals. [Part 1 | Part 2 / ARTE]


• Gerald Finley, Wolfgang Bankl, and Chen Reiss star in Otto Schenk's production of Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen at the Wiener Staatsoper, with Franz Welser-Möst at the podium. [ORF]


• An evening of Italian Baroque music from soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci and the Accademia degli Astrusi, under Federico Ferri, recorded last May in the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. [RTBF]


• Richard Egarr leads the Academy of Ancient Music in music of Bach, orchestral suites and harpsichord concertos, recorded in May at the Milton Court Concert Hall in London. [ORF]


• From the Schwetzingen Festival last year, a recital by violinist Isabelle Faust, pianist Alexander Melnikov, and horn player Teunis der Zwart. [RTBF]


• For the Richard Strauss anniversary, Peter Dijkstra leads the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks in a cappella works by the composer, plus a recitation by Thomas Quasthoff. [BR-Klassik]


• Arie Van Beek conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Kristian Bezuidenhout at the fortepiano, in music of Haydn and Mozart. [France Musique]


• Johannes Kalitzke leads world premieres of new pieces by Tom Johnson, Klaus Lang, and Nicolaus Richter de Vroe, with the Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. [BR-Klassik]


• From the Festival de Saint-Denis, Mendelssohn and Brahms with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and violinist Julia Fischer. [France Musique | ARTE]


• Vladimir Jurowski leads the Vienna Symphony at the Wiener Festwochen, in music of Beethoven and Szymanowski (the violin concerto with Leonidas Kavakos as soloist). [ORF]


• Also from the Wiener Festwochen, Mikko Franck leads the Vienna Philharmonic in music of Strauss and Shostakovich's first symphony. [ORF]


• Pianist Stephen Hough performs music of Brahms, Debussy, Robert Schumann, and Stephen Hough, from the 10ème Saison de Piano in Lyon. [France Musique]

• Listen to a live recording of Wagner's Tannhäuser from the Bayreuth Festival, in 1962, starring Wolfgang Windgassen, Anja Silja, and Grace Bumbry, with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the podium. [ORF]


• Violist Herbert Kefer joins the Altenberg for music by Mozart and Dvorak, recorded in May at the Wiener Musikverein. [ORF]


• From the Villa Médicis in Rome last February, the Quatuor Tana and Quatuor Qvixote join forces at the Controtempo Festival, with two recent octets, by Laurent Durupt and Mauro Lanza, and two quartets, by Francesca Verunelli (with electronics) and Raphaël Cendo. [France Musique]


• Next Saturday, you can catch the livestream of Rossini's Guillaume Tell from the Bayerische Staatsoper. [Staatsoper TV]


• At the Wiener Musikverein, the Artis Quartett plays music by Mozart, Erwin Schulhoff, Mendelssohn, and Zemlinsky. [ORF]


• Music of Mozart from pianist Cédric Tiberghien, soprano Sophie Karthauser, conductor Nicolas Chalvin, and the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie. [France Musique]


• Pianist Francesco Piemontesi joins the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, under conductor Roberto Forès Veses, for music by Haydn Mozart, and Beethoven. [France Musique]


• Pianist Jean-François Zygel continues his Les Clefs de l'orchestre series, this time with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, who perform Shostakovich's ninth symphony. [France Musique]

In Brief: At the Lake Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Watch Jakub Hruša lead a performance of Dvorak's Stabat Mater at the Festival de Saint-Denis, with the Prague Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. [France Musique]


• Jordi Savall leads a performance of C.P.E. Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste, with Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya; plus Maria Cristina Kiehr and other soloists. [ORF]


• A recital by soprano Sophie Karthäuser and pianist Cédric Tiberghien with music of Schumann, Debussy, Honegger, and Poulenc. [France Musique]


• At the Wiener Festwochen, Daniel Barenboim leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Jupiter Symphony and, with the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, in Max Reger's Requiem. [ORF]


• Daniel Barenboim leads the Staatskapelle Berlin in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben and Don Quixote. [ORF]


• Watch Daniele Gatti lead a memorial concert for Claudio Abbado, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Waltraud Meier at the Dresden Music Festival. [Medici.tv]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, listen to a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas's opera Bluthaus. [ORF]


• Händel's Alexander's Feast or The Power of Music, performed by Concentus Musicus Wien, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, with Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, and Gerald Finley as soloists, recorded in 2001 in the Abbey Church of Melk. [ORF]


• Semyon Bychkov leads the Orchestre National de France in music of Strauss and Wagner, with mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn. [France Musique]


• Jean Deroyer leads a performance of Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, pianist Catherine Cournot, and others. [France Musique]


• The Orchestre National d’Île de France and pianist Romain Descharmes perform music by Toru Takemitsu, Rachmaninov, and Shostakovich. [France Musique]


• The Ensemble Pygmalion performs music of Mozart and Michael Haydn, with soprano Malin Christensson, mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa, tenor Julien Behr, and bass-baritone Andreas Wolf. [France Musique]


• Michi Gaigg leads the Orfeo Baroque Orchestra in music of Gluck, Rebel, Rameau, and others at the Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk. [ORF]


• The Tapiola Sinfonietta performs music by Nielsen, Berg, Aarre Merikanto, Jon Leifs, and Franz Berwald. [France Musique]


• Mikko Franck leads the Estonia National Symphony Orchestra and pianist Per Tengstrand in music by Wilhelm Stenhammar, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. [ORF]


• A sampling of electronic pieces performed last March at the Festival Présences Electronique. [France Musique]


• Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya joins the Orchestre de La Suisse Romande and conductor Neeme Järvi for music by Dvorak, Mozart, and Bartok. [France Musique]


• Listen to pianist Michel Dalberto perform music by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms. [France Musique]

In Brief: Pentecost Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• From the Opéra Comique in Paris last month, a rare performance of Ali-Baba, the 1887 opera by Charles Lecocq, an adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights. [France Musique]


• Semyon Bychkov conducts Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Royal Opera in London, with Johan Botha (Der Kaiser), Emily Magee (Die Kaiserin), and others. [ORF]


• Handel's oratorio Solomon performed by Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy, with soloists including Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Solomon) and Karina Gauvin (Queen of Sheba), plus La Chapelle de Québec. [RTBF]


• Listen to music of J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, J. Christian Bach, and others performed by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and oboist Xenia Löffler, recorded last month at the Schwetzinger Festspiele. [ORF]


• The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment plays a concert at the Spitalfields Festival, with works by Schutz, Rosenmuller, and Praetorius. [BBC3]


• Mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes joins the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège and conductor Patrick Davin for music by Ravel, Henri Duparc, and Carl Nielsen. [France Musique]


• Bernard Haitink conducts the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in music of Schumann, Berg, and Beethoven. [BBC3]


• Vassily Sinaisky conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's second symphony and Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, with Daniil Trifonov as soloist, recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie. [ORF]


• Music of Czech composers from the Pavel Haas Quartet, recorded at the Conservatory in Brussels. [RTBF]


• Pianist David Fray plays a recital at the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele, with music by Rossini, Liszt, Schubert, and Bach. [ORF]


• From Les Musicales de Colmar, music by Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Respighi and Mozart performed by the Leipzig String Quartet and guest soloists. [France Musique]


• Also from Colmar, more from the Leipzig String Quartet: music by Lucien Durosoir, Claude Debussy, and André Caplet. [France Musique]


• Cornelius Meister leads the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in music of Hans Rott, the violin concerto of Jörg Widmann (with Christian Tetzlaff as soloist), and Martinu's third symphony. [ORF]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Paavo Järvi leads the Orchestre de Paris and cellist Tatjana Vassilieva, with music by Ravel, Stravinsky, Musorgsky and Shostakovich. [ORF]


• A recital by pianist Giovanni Bellucci with music by William Byrd, Beethoven, Ferruccio Busoni, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Franz Liszt. [France Musique]

In Brief: Graduation Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Listen to a performance of Rossini's Tancredi, starring Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Tancredi) and Patrizia Ciofi (Amenaide), recorded this past week at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. [France Musique]


• Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Jörg Widmanns Lied and Schubert's Mass in E-flat Major, recorded in Munich last December. [ORF | Part 2]


• Listen to the Quatuor Mosaïques perform music by Anton Reicha, Louis Emmanuel Jadin, Félicien David, and Beethoven, recorded at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [ORF]


• John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in music of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Bruckner (Mass in D Minor). [BR-Klassik]


• Watch the final round of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, where Korean soprano Sumi Hwang edged out Belgian soprano Jodie Devos. [ARTE]


• The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Messiaen's L'Ascension and Mahler's fourth symphony, with soprano Ailish Tynan, under conductor Jac van Steen. [France Musique]


• The vocal ensemble Profeti della Quinta performs Salomone Rossi's Songs of Solomon. [France Musique]


• To mark the anniversary of the death of Olivier Messiaen, Loïc Mallié performs an organ recital at the Eglise de La Trinité in Paris. [France Musique]


• Janine Jansen plays the Brahms violin concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, with Antonio Pappano also conducting William Walton's first symphony, recorded in January at the Barbican Hall. [ORF]


• If you missed Luca Pisaroni's dynamite recital of Beethoven, Brahms, and Liszt, listen to the same program recorded at the Musikverein in Vienna, with pianist Wolfram Rieger. [ORF]


• In Geneva, mezzo-soprano Violeta Urmana joins the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Neeme Järvi in music of Mahler and Musorgsky. [France Musique]


• A performance of Jules Massenet's Cendrillon, starring Joyce DiDonato, recorded last January at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. [France Musique]


• Rossini's La Cenerentola in the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. [ORF]


• Harpsichordist Olivier Baumont and violonist Julien Chauvin perform the Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber. [France Musique]


• The Ensemble Intercontemporain performs music by contemporary composers from China (and other places). [France Musique]


• From the Musikverein in Vienna, cellist Tatjana Vassilieva joins Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris for music by Musorgsky, Shostakovich, Ravel, and Stravinsky. [France Musique]


• Pianist Jonathan Biss performs at the Auditorium du Louvre, in music by Beethoven, Janacek, Chopin, and Mozart. [France Musique]


• The Quatuor Meta4 performs music by Jouni Kaipainen, Felix Mendelssohn, and Bela Bartok. [France Musique]


• Eighty high school musicians join the Orchestre National de France and conductor Christophe Mangou to celebrate the ensemble's 80th anniversary, performing music by Brahms, Grieg, Sibelius, and others. [France Musique]

In Brief: Memorial Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Watch a concert of improvisations by pianist Gabriela Montero, recorded at the Montreal International Musical Competition. [Medici.tv]


• More music from Félicien David, Le Désert, Ode-symphonie en trois parties, from 1844, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris and Accentus, plus the fifth piano concerto of Saint-Saens with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist. [France Musique | ARTE Video]


• A performance of Ferdinando Bertoni's L'Orfeo from Ferrara, with the Orchestra da Camera Lorenzo da Ponte and Coro Accademia dello Spirito Santo, starring Vivica Genaux and others. [ORF]


• Watch some of the performances from the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. [ARTE]


• Listen to music of Lutoslawski, Sibelius, and Tchaikovsky from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, perfored by the Orchestre National de France and violinist Joshua Bell. [France Musique | ARTE Video]


• Listen to a performance of Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann, starring Yosep Kang, Daniela Fally, and others at the Wiener Staatsoper. [ORF]


• A song recital by soprano Mojca Erdmann and pianist Gerold Huber, with music of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Richard Strauss, recorded last March at the Festival Klangraum Waidhofen. [ORF]


• Lionel Bringuier conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in music of Dukas, Tchaikovsky, and Berlioz (Les nuits d'été with soprano Véronique Gens). [France Musique]


• A performance of Bach's St. John Passion with the Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw and Cappella Amsterdam, conducted by Daniel Reuss, recorded in Utrecht. [Avro Klassiek | Part 2]


• Live from the Wigmore Hall, the English Concert plays Handel and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. [BBC3]


• Soloists from the Orchestre National de France perform Le conte fantastique by André Caplet. [France Musique]


• Watch pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff perform the complete piano trios of Brahms, recorded at the Auditorium du Louvre. [Medici.tv]


• Violinist Vadim Repin joins the Vienna Symphony for Prokofiev's second violin concerto, with Lionel Bringuier also conducting music by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Kodály. [ORF]


• The ensemble Prague Modern perform music by Dai Fujikura (b. 1977), Messiaen, Miroslav Srnka, and Johannes Maria Staud, under conductor Pascal Gallois. [France Musique]

• Listen to a performance of Verdi's Rigoletto from Brussels, starring Dimitri Platanias, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, and Simona Saturova. [RTBF]


• The Kammerorchester Basel plays Tchaikovsky's Serenade for String. [Avro Klassiek]


• The Halle Choir and Orchestra play Brahms's Nanie and Mahler's 9th Symphony. [BBC3]


• Harpsichordists Bob van Asperen and Olivier Baumont give a tribute to the memory of Gustav Leonhardt, with a performance of Bach's Art of the Fugue. [France Musique]


• The Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw and conductor Kenneth Montgomery perform Beethoven's fifth piano concert, with fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, recorded in Amsterdam. [Avro Klassiek]


• Listen to violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, under conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste, perform music by Shostakovich and Mahler. [RTBF]


• Rafal Blechacz joins the Vienna Symphony for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and music of Beethoven, including the second piano concerto and the Egmont overture. [ORF]


• Listen to the English Music Festival, live from the abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames. [BBC3]


• A recital by violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi, with music by Schubert, Prokofiev, Avner Dorman, and Beethoven. [ORF]


• Music of Bach and Telemann performed by L'Atelier de Musique Moderne, the Maîtrise de Caen and others. [France Musique]


• From Amsterdam, violinist Vilde Frang and violist Nils Mönkemeyer play Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the Kammerorchester Basel. [Avro Klassiek]


• From the Festival de Pâques in Deauville, music by Bruch, Mendelssohn, and Brahms performed by violist Antoine Tamestit, pianist Nicholas Angelich, and friends. [France Musique]


• The Strada Quartet performs music of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev at the Festival de Pâques in Deauville. [France Musique]


• Listen to the recording of Donizetti's La Favorite made in Bologna, starring Luciano Pavarotti, Ileana Cotrubas, and others. [ORF]

In Brief: Mid-May Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Theater an der Wien. [ORF]


• Listen to rare performances of Victorin Joncières's Le dernier jour de Pompéi (1869) and Félicien David's Herculanum. [France Musique]


• Semyon Bychkov conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the world premiere of Franz Schmidt's second symphony and Time Recycling by René Staar. [ORF]


• It's time for the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, this year for voices. Have a listen to the competitors. [RTBF]


• Music of Purcell from Les Arts Florissants, led by Paul Agnew. [France Musique]


• Giovanni Antonini leads the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Il Giardino Armonico, and soloists in Bach's cantata Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir and Handel's Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Call Your Mom Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Watch Kristjan Järvi conduct the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig and MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig in music of Steve Reich, with the composer in attendance at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. [Medici.tv]


• Watch the performance of Doctor Atomic by John Adams, with Patrick Davin conducting the Opéra National du Rhin. [Medici.tv]


• Listen to a performance of Francesco Cavalli's opera Elena, recorded last month at the Opéra de Lille. [France Musique]


• From Carnegie Hall, the Seattle Symphony performs BecomeOcean, by John Luther Adams, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for New Composition. [WQXR]


• The New York Philharmonic performs Christopher Rouse's Requiem at Carnegie Hall. [WQXR]


• From the Wiener Staatsoper, listen to a performance of Verdi's Nabucco, starring Placido Domingo and Anna Smirnova. [ORF]


• Listen to the broadcast of Rossini's La Cenerentola from the Metropolitan Opera, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez. [RTBF]


• Riccardo Muti leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Berlioz's Messe Solenelle and Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, recorded at the Wiener Festwochen. [ORF]


• A rare performance of Gioseffo Zamponi's Ulisse all’isola di Circe, featuring the Cappella Mediterranea. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Queen of the May Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• We just recommended Lalla Roukh by Félicien David, and now Véronique Gens heads up a performance of the same composer's Herculanum, with the Choeur de la Radio Flamande, the Brussels Philharmonic, and Hervé Niquet. [France Musique]


• Daniele Gatti leads a performance of Mahler's seventh symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall. [BBC3]


• More of the Benjamin Britten festival from the Opéra de Lyon, with a performance of Curlew River. [France Musique]


• Also from Lyon, Britten's Peter Grimes, starring Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Michaela Kaune (Ellen Orford). [France Musique]


• From Brussels, a performance of Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande. [RTBF]


• From the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Belcea Quartet and pianist Piotr Anderszewski perform music by Weber, Beethoven, and Shostakovich. [ORF]


• The Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, under Myung-Whun Chung, performs Mahler's ninth symphony. [France Musique]


• Philippe Herreweghe directs a performance of Haydn's Die Schöpfung with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées and Collegium Vocale Gent. [RTBF]


• From the Wigmore Hall in London, Ann Hallenberg sings arias written for the castrato Farinelli. [BBC3]


• The masque The Tempest, with music by Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke, and John Weldon, performed at the Cité de la musique by Philip Pickett and the New London Consort. [France Musique]


• Andreas Staier leads music by J.S. Bach, W.F. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach, with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. [France Musique]


• Les Arts Florissants perform Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platée, with Paul Agnew conducting a cast led by Marcel Beekman (Platée). [ORF]


• From the Cité de la Musique, harpsichordists Blandine Rannou and Jean Rondeau perform music by J.S. Bach. [France Musique]


• The opening concert of the Turbulences Festival at the Cité de la Musique, led by composer Bruno Mantovani last month. [France Musique]


• Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the Webern Symphonie Orchester and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien in Mahler's second symphony, with soprano Malin Hartelius and mezzo-soprano Yvonne Naef. [ORF]


• Violinist Sayaka Shoji is the soloist with the BBC Philharmonic, for music by Chausson, Berlioz, Dukas, and Walton. [ORF]


• Gustavo Dudamel leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a concert recorded last December, with music by Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Schubert. [ORF]


• The Quatuor Hermès plays music by Janacek and Hersant, with pianists Joans Vitaus and Guillaume Bellom and others. [France Musique]


• If you missed it, listen to the broadcast of Bellini's I Puritani from the Metropolitan Opera, starring Lawrence Brownlee and Mariusz Kwiecien. [ORF]

In Brief: Santo Subito Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• From the Opéra de Lyon's Benjamin Britten festival, Kazushi Ozo conducts The Turn of the Screw. [France Musique]


• Père Bruno Lutz and the Choir of Monks from the Abbaye Saint Pierre de Solesmes are joined by L'Académie Vocale de Paris and Iain Simcock, in the Abbey Church for solemn vespers on the feast of the Ascension. [RTBF]


• Watch Martha Argerich play Beethoven's first piano concerto, with Emmanuel Krivine and the Orchestre de chambre d'Europe. [ARTE]


• Violinist Viktoria Mullova joins Accademia Bizantina for some concertos of J.S. Bach. [France Musique]


• Watch the new opera Au Monde by Philippe Boesmans, from Brussels. [La Monnaie]


• For the Rameau Year, Les Arts Florissants perform cantatas by Campra, Couperin, and Montéclair, and Michel Lambert. [France Musique]


• Skip Sempé leads Capriccio Stravagante and soloists in Hana Blaziková and Judith van Wanrij, among others, in a performance of André Campra's opera-ballet L'Europe Galante, recorded last summer at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. [ORF]


• Harpsichordist Christine Schornsheim joins mezzo-soprano Gaelle Arquez and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in music by CPE Bach, Gluck, Jommelli, and Mozart, recorded last month in Freiburg. [RTBF]


• In case you missed it, listen to Philippe Auguin conducts Strauss's Arabella at the Metropolitan Opera, recorded last Saturday. [France Musique]


• The Orchestre National de France celebrates its 80th birthday with the Men's Chorus of Radio France and Daniele Gatti conducting music of Beethoven, Dutilleux, and Stravinsky, recorded in audio and video at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]


• From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées last month, Riccardo Muti leads the Orchestre National de France and mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink in music of Scriabin, Rossini, and Chausson. [ORF]


• Ensemble Resonanz, led by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, performs music by Franz Schreker, Wolfgang Rihm, Georg-Matthias Monn, J.S. Bach, and Arnold Schoenberg. [France Musique]


• Pianist Daniil Trifonov joins the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Mikhail Pletnev, for music by Glazunov, Chopin, Shostakovich. [RTBF]


• From the Metropolitan Opera, Giordano's Andrea Chénier starring Marcelo Alvarez (Andrea Chénier), Patricia Racette (Maddalena), Zeljko Lucic (Carlo Gérard), Jennifer Johnson Cano (Bersi), and others. [ORF]


• Paul Agnew leads members of Les Arts Florissants, in music by Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, and Emilio de Cavalieri, recorded last summer in Les Bruassus, Switzerland. [ORF]


• Jonathan Stockhammer leads the Orchestre National de Lyon as part of the Biennale Musiques en scène, with music by Saariaho, Rebecca Saunders, Heiner Goebbels, and others. [France Musique]


• The Orchestre National de France, with conductor David Zinman and clarinetist Martin Fröst, in music by Bartók, Lutoslawski, Copland, and others. [ORF]


• Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic Orchesta and percussionist Martin Grubinger, in music by Rossini, Bruno Hartl, and Keiko Abe. [ORF]


• Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts the piano duo Ferhan and Ferzan Önder and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, in music by Mendelssohn. [ORF]


• Violinist Pierre Fouchenneret, violists Adrien Boisseau and Lise Berthaud, cellist Jérôme Pernoo, and the Atelier de Musique perform music by Shostakovich, Olivier Greif, and Mozart, recorded at the Festival de Pâques de Deauville. [France Musique]


• Violist Lise Berthaud, bass player Yann Dubost, and Trio Les Esprits perform music by Mauricio Kagel, Beethoven, and Schubert. [France Musique]

In Brief: Resurrection Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Bach's St. Matthew Passion with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Concentus Musicus Wien, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor and Wiener Sängerknaben, and soloists Michael Schade, Florian Boesch, Christine Schäfer, Bernarda Fink, and others. [ORF]


• Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic perform J. S. Bach's St. John Passion. [RTBF]


• The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performs C.P.E. Bach's St. John Passion. [BBC3]


• Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson headline a performance of Strauss's Arabella, conducted by Christian Thielemann with the Staatskaepple Dresden at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg. [ORF]


• Music by Messiaen and Richard Strauss from the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, with conductor Ludovic Morlot and pianist Bertrand Chamayou. [RTBF]


• Listen to cellist Guy Johnston, soprano Aleksandra Zamojska, contralto Anna Radziejewska, and the BBC Concert Orchestra under conductor Stephen Cleobury in music by John Tavener (The Protecting Veil), Witold Lutoslawski (Lacrimosa), and Karol Szymanowski (Stabat mater). [France Musique]


• The Tallis Scholars perform a concert in the Oratoire du Louvre, with Peter Phillips leading music by John Taverner, John Sheppard, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, and Arvo Pärt. [France Musique]


• Hear a performance of Berlioz's opera Les Troyens, from La Scala in Milan. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Tax Man Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Listen to a concert of Vivaldi by Vivica Genaux and Europa Galante, conducted by Fabio Biondi. [France Musique]


• From the Wiener Staatsoper, Wagner's Lohengrin, with Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Camilla Nylund (Elsa von Brabant), and conductor Mikko Franck. [ORF]


• From the Théâtre Graslin de Nantes, a performance of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande, recorded last month. [France Musique]


• Philippe Jaroussky and Emöke Barath perform Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Château de Fontainebleau. [ARTE Live Web]


• Violinist Thomas Zehetmair joins conductor Alan Gilbert and the Berlin Philharmonic for music by Lutoslawski, LJanacek, Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, and Bartok. [France Musique]


• Philippe Herreweghe conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, joined by mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg and Collegium Vocale Gent in music of Brahms. [France Musique]


• Jordi Savall leads violinist Manfred Kraemer and Le Concert des Nations in music by Michael Praetorius, William Brade, Guillaume Dumanoir, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Johann Rosenmuller, Henry Purcell, and Jean-Philippe Rameau. [France Musique]


• Thomas Hengelbrock conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven's Mass in C Major and Schubert's Stabat mater and "Unfinished" Symphony. [ORF]


• Watch Marin Alsop conduct the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, in music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. [ARTE Live Web]


• Semyon Bychkov conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in symphonies by Beethoven and Schubert, recorded at the Royal Festival Hall. [BBC3]


• A program of Vivaldi concerts from Gli Incogniti, led by violinist Amandine Beyer. [ORF]


• Shostakovichs 13th symphony and Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine, with Ingo Metzmacher leading the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien. [ORF]


• Watch Myung-Whun Chung conduct the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, in music by Gustav Mahler. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• Conductor Tugan Sokhiev and cellist Johannes Moser join the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, in music by Miecyslaw Weinberg, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Albert Roussel. [ORF]


• London Handel Players perform at the Wigmore Hall, as part of the London Handel Festival 2014. [BBC3]


• Music of Bach, Richard Danielpour, and Prokofiev performed by violinist Gil Shaham and musicians from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. [France Musique]


• Harpists Iris Torossian and Marion Lénart join La Maîtrise de Radio France, under conductor Sofi Jeannin, to perform music by Francis Poulenc, André Caplet, Holst, Bernard Andres, and Daniel Lesur. [France Musique]


• Violinist Arabella Steinbacher joins the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Andrés Orozco-Estrada at the podium, in music by Haydn, Prokofiev, Ysaye, Friedrich Cerha, and Rachmaninov. [France Musique]


• The ensemble Sillages offers a celebration of composer Allain Gaussin, with the world premiere of his latest work, Le vent se lève, plus music by Javier Torres Maldonado, Francisco Guerrero, and Alex Mincek. [France Musique]


• A performance of Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland, starring Paul Schöffler (Sebastiano), Oskar Czerwenka (Tommaso), Gre Brouwenstijn (Marta), and Hans Hopf (Pedro), with the Vienna Symphony. [ORF]

In Brief: Whan That Aprill Edition

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• For the Whan That Aprille Day celebration, a day to read from texts in ancient languages, which took place on April 1, an excerpt from Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, ou le Chevalier au Lion (lines 2017-2024): "Dame, fet il, la force vient / de mon cuer, qui a vos se tient; / an ce voloir m'a mes cuers mis. -- Et qui le cuer, biax dolz amis? -- Dame, mi oel. -- Et les ialz, qui? / -- La granz biautez que an vos vi. / Et la biautez qu'i a forfet? / -- Dame, tant que amer me fet." [Yvain et le Lion]


• Translation of the above: "Lady, he said, the power comes / from my heart, which binds itself to you; / in that desire has my heart put me. -- And who did that to your heart, beautiful, sweet friend? -- Lady, my eye. -- And your eyes, who? -- The great beauty that I see in you. And the beauty, in what was its fault? / -- Lady, all that which love does to me." [Project Gutenberg]


• A performance of Francesco Maria Veracini's 1735 opera Adriano in Siria, with Fabio Biondi leading Europa Galante and singers Sonia Prina, Ann Hallenberg, and Roberta Invernizzi, recorded in January at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [France Musique]


• From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, a performance of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier with Kirill Petrenko leading the Bavarian State Orchestra and Chorus, starring Soile Isokoski, Peter Rose, Sophie Koch, and Christiane Karg. [France Musique]


• Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart's Don Giovanni with Concentus Musicus Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, starring Andrè Schuen (Don Giovanni), Christine Schäfer (Donna Anna), and Maite Beaumont (Donna Elvira), recorded last month at the Theater an der Wien. [ORF]


• Another Don Giovanni, from Covent Garden, starring Mariusz Kwiecien and Véronique Gens, recorded in February. [RTBF]


• The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C and Bruckner's Symphony No 7, with cellist Truls Mørk and conductor Mariss Jansons. [BBC3]


• Listen to the 2007 recording of Bellini's La Straniera, with the London Philharmonic and Geoffrey Mitchell Choir: David Parry conducts a cast led by Patrizia Ciofi (Alaide), Mark Stone (Valdeburgo), and Dario Schmunck (Arturo). [ORF]

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In Brief: Out Like a Lamb Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• A performance of Bononcini's oratorio on the conversion of Mary Magdalen, with soprano Maria-Christina Kiehr, mezzo-soprano Alice Habellion, and Concerto Soave, conducted by Jean-Marc Aymes. [France Musique]


• Mariss Jansons conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in music of Enescu, Prokofiev (with violinist Lisa Batiashvili), and Stravinsky, recorded last fall in Bucharest. [ORF]


• The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with Vladimir Jurowski at the podium, perform an all-Mahler concert, with soprano Sophie Karthäuser and baritone Gerald Finley. [RTBF]


• Watch a performance of Mozart's La finta giardiniera at the Opéra de Lille, with Emmanuelle Haïm conducting her ensemble Le Concert d'Astrée. [Medici.tv]


• Organist Olivier Latry perfoms music by Florentz, Messiaen, and Widor at London's Royal Festival Hall. [BBC3]


• Listen to an all-Schumann Lieder recital by baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Winter in Spring Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• Watch more concerts in the complete cycle of Bach's harpsichord works, including concerts by Rinaldo Alessandrini, Christine Schornsheim, Davitt Moroney, and Pierre Hantaï. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads Concentus Musicus Wien in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, starring Bo Skovhus (Conte di Almaviva), Christine Schäfer (Contessa di Almaviva), Mari Eriksmoen (Susanna), and André Schuen (Figaro), recorded earlier this month at the Theater an der Wien. [ORF]


• Watch Kent Nagano conduct Mahler's seventh symphony with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, recorded at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [Medici.tv]


• Listen to Herbert Blomstedt conduct the Berlin Philharmonic, in Beethoven's fourth symphony and Nielsen's fifth, recorded last May in Berlin. [RTBF]


• From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, recorded earlier this month, a concert performance of Rameau's Les Fêtes de l'hymen et de l'amour, featuring Le Concert Spirituel and conductor Hervé Niquet. [France Musique]


• Handel's gorgeous oratorio Theodora, recorded last month at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, starring Rosemary Joshua, Sarah Connolly, and others, with Harry Bicket, The English Concert, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. [France Musique]


• Listen to the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, with conductor Ton Koopman, soprano Johannette Zomer, and other soloists in cantatas by J. S. Bach, recorded in January in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. [ORF]


• Leonard Slatkin leads the Orchestre National de Lyon in a concert performance of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette, with tenor Julien Behr, mezzo-soprano Marion Lebègue, and bass Frédéric Caton. [France Musique]


• Two rare short operas -- Martinu's Mirandolina (1954) from the Moravian-Silesian National Theater, with Marko Ivanic conducting, and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta from the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. [RTBF]

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In Brief: Yet More Winter Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• You will want to watch this complete performance of all of Bach's harpsichord music on historical instruments, recorded between March 11 and 21, with Aurélien Delage, Olivier Baumont, Béatrice Martin, Céline Frisch, Andreas Staier, and others. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Riccardo Muti conducts Bernarda Fink and the Orchestre National de France, to celebrate the orchestra's 80th anniversary, with music by Rossini, Chausson, and Scriabine. [France Musique]


• From 1959, four historical concerts performed by the Orchestre National de France, featuring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Clara Haskil, Gyorgy Cziffra, Victoria de Los Angeles, and Georg Solti. [France Musique]


• Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in music by Ives, Adams, and Berlioz. [BBC3]


• Watch Kent Nagano conduct the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Wagner, David Philip Hefti, Berlioz, and Liszt, with pianist Marc-André Hamelin as soloist. [Medici.tv]


• A recital by pianist Angela Hewitt, with music by Bach and Beethoven, recorded last December at the Wigmore Hall in London. [ORF]


• Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Fradio France in a performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung and other soloists. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, plus music by Strauss, with Barbara Sukowa, violonist Hélène Collerette, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Sindbad, a new opera by Howard Moody, from Brussels. [De Munt]


• Handel's Dixit dominus and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with soprano Anna Prohaska and MusicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis. [France Musique]


• Watch John Eliot Gardiner conduct Monteverdi's Vespro della beate vergine at the Chapelle Royale de Versailles. [Medici.tv]


• A recital by pianist Stephen Hough with music by Beethoven, Scriabin, Liszt, and Hough. [RTBF]


• Herbert Blomstedt leads the NDR Sinfonieorchester, with pianist Piotr Anderszewski as soloist, in music by Mozart and Wilhelm Stenhammar, recorded last November in Hamburg. [ORF]


• The vocal ensemble Discantus performs music from the Winchester Troper, plus music by Joël Rust and Pierre Chépolov, recorded at the Rencontres de musique médiévale du Thoronet. [France Musique]


• Arias and dances from Rameau operas, with soprano Anna Reinhold and Les Arts Florissants, recorded last month in Vienna. [ORF]


• Krzysztof Penderecki conducts the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and the Chor der Oper Graz in his own music and that of Schoenberg. [ORF]


• Listen to Dvořák's Rusalka, starring Renée Fleming, Emily Magee, Dolora Zajick, and others, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the Metropolitan Opera. [France Musique]


• Listen to Massenet's Werther, starring Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), and Lisette Oropesa (Sophie), at the Metropolitan Opera. [ORF]


• Dirk Kaftan leads the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester and pianist Boris Berezovsky in music by Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. [ORF]


• Pianist Shai Wosner and soprano Katherine Broderick join Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for music by Tippett and Mozart. [ORF]


• Violinist Sayaka Shoji and the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Yukata Sado, perform music by Barry Gray, Chausson, Berlioz, Dukas, and William Walton. [France Musique]


• Music by Thierry Pécou and Moritz Eggert, performed by the Ensemble Resonanz at the Présences Festival. [France Musique]


• Roger Norrington conducts a live recording of Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto, at the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, with Bruce Ford (Mitridate), Cyndia Sieden (Aspasia), Christiane Oelze (Sifare), and the Camerata Salzburg. [ORF]

In Brief: Now No More Winter Edition

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• The news of the death of Gerard Mortier, the controversial artistic director, reached our ears this weekend. ARTE has made a video of the Warlikowski production of Gluck's Alceste available. [ARTE Live Web]


• Listen to the Monteverdi Choir's 50th anniversary concert. [BBC3]


• In a recital at the Salle Pleyel, pianist Khatia Buniatishvili plays music by Ravel and Musorgsky. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• From the Royal Albert Hall in London, a September concert by the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Lorin Maazel (Bruckner's eighth symphony), plus organ works by Bach played by Klaus Sonnleitner. [France Musique]


• A performance of Rossini's Le Comte Ory from the Opéra de Lyon, starring Dmitry Korchak, Désirée Rancatore, and Antoinette Dennefeld. [France Musique]


• From the Royal Opera in London, Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes, starring Michael Volle (Guy de Monfort) and Erwin Schrott (Procida). [ORF]


• Daniel Harding leads the Berlin Philharmonic in Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, with Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Prohaska, and other soloists. [ORF]


• Leif Ove Andsnes plays Beethoven sonatas at the Wigmore Hall. [BBC3]


• Sacred music by Jan Dismas Zelenka, performed by Collegium 1704, with Roberta Invernizzi and other soloists. [ORF]


• Julia Schröder leads the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in music of Frederik II, CPE Bach, Wagenseil, and Haydn. [RTBF]


• Lorin Maazel conducts the Munich Philharmonic, recorded last month in Vienna, in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensymphonie and Schumann's fourth symphony. [ORF]


• Early music by Concerto Copenhagen, recorded in Faaborg, Denmark.. [RTBF]


• Fro Brussels, a concert by the Tokyo String Quartet. [RTBF]


• Andreas Staier, from the pianoforte, leads the Esterhazy Hofkapelle in music by C.P.E. Bach and Haydn. [RTBF]


• Recent music by Carola Bauckholt, Johannes Schollhorn, Bernard Cavanna, and Andreas Dohmen performed by Ensemble 2e2m at the Présences Festival. [France Musique]


• Ilan Volkov leads the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, with Benjamin Grosvenor as piano soloist, in music by Britten and Janacek. [ORF]


• Pianist Cédric Tiberghien joins the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, for music by Dutilleux, Saint-Saëns et Chabrier. [France Musique]


• Adam Fischer conducts the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, with violinists Tedi Papavrami and Hélène Collerette, in music by Haydn, Bartok, and Dvorak. [France Musique]


• For the Semaine des femmes, France Musique broadcast a selection of music by women composers. [Part 1 | Part 2]


• Also opera excerpts for the Semaine des Femmes, with Médée by Michèle Reverdy, Douce et Barbe-Bleue by Isabelle Aboulker, and La Esmeralda by Louise Bertin. [France Musique]


• Choral music by Brahms, Schubert, Mahler, and others, with Roger Vignoles conducting a quartet including soprano Elena Copons. [ORF]


• Pianist Romain Descharmes joins the Choeur and Orchestre de Paris, with conductor Ingo Metzmacher, for an American program of music by Gershwin, Ives, George Antheil, and Bernstein. [France Musique]


• The 1996 recording of Verdi's Don Carlo, led by Bernard Haitink in London and starring Roberto Scandiuzzi, Galina Gorchakova, Olga Borodina (Eboli), Richard Margison (Don Carlos), and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Posa). [ORF]

In Brief: More Winter Edition

Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

• The performance of Puccini's La fanciulla del West from the Opéra Bastille in Paris, starring Nina Stemme (Minnie), Claudio Sgura (Jack Rance), and Marco Berti (Dick Johnson), with Carlo Rizzi at the podium. [France Musique]


• Listen to the broadcast of Borodin's Prince Igor from the Metropolitan Opera, starring Ildar Abdrazakov and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. [ORF]


• String quartets by Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert performed by the Quatuor Mosaïques, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. [BBC3]


• Music by François Couperin and Lully, performed by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, recorded in Graz last December. [ORF]


• Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques perform Gluck's Philémon & Baucis, recorded in Brussels in 2006. [ORF]


• John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in motets, cantatas, and concertos by Bach. [RTBF]


• Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner and Brahms. [BBC3]


• The closing concert of the Présences Festival, featuring music by Jörg Widmann (Armonica), Johannes Boris Borowski, and Pierre Boulez (Le visage nuptial), performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Choeur de femmes de Radio France, and Pascal Rophé at the Cité de la musique last month. [Cité de la Musique Live]


• From the Edinburgh Festival last August, a recital of music by Debussy and Ligeti, with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. [RTBF]


• Donald Runnicles leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Grieg's A minor piano concerto (with Lars Vogt as soloist), Elgar's Cockaigne, and Shostakovich's first symphony, recorded in Aberdeen in January. [ORF]


• Listen to Andrew Manze conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Schumann, Beethoven, and Copland. [BBC3]


• Vivaldi concertos performed by Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini. [RTBF]


• Soprano Sophie Karthauser and pianist Eugène Asti perform songs by Schubert, Schumann, Poulenc, Satie, and Honegger, in a recital recorded at the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris. [France Musique]


• The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paavo Järvi and joined by pianist Alexander Toradze, perform music by Arvo Pärt, Shostakovich, and Franz Schmidt, recorded in Frankfurt. [France Musique]


• Matthias Pintscher conducts the Ensemble Intercontemporain in music by Anton Webern, Robert Schumann, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Igor Stravinski, Maurice Ravel, Bernd Aloïs Zimmermann, and Karol Szymanowski at the Cité de la Musique. [France Musique]


• Cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Paul Rivinius perform music by Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutoslawski, and Johannes Brahms, recorded last May in Schwetzingen. [France Musique]


• Music by Nicolas Mondon, Gérard Pesson, and Jérôme Combier performed by the Ensemble Cairn and the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, recorded last month at the Goethe Institute in Paris. [France Musique]


• Mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux performs Baroque arias with the Capella Gabetta, recorded in 2012 at the Eglise de Villars-sur-Glâne. [France Musique]


• The 1979 recording of Bellini's Norma, with James Levine conducting Renata Scotto (Norma), Tatiana Troyanos (Adalgisa), Giuseppe Giacomini (Pollione), Paul Plishka (Oroveso), and Ann Murray (Clotilde). [ORF]