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]

At TCR: The Weekly Stream

Get your Internet streaming music fix for the week:

Charles T. Downey, The Weekly Stream (The Classical Review, September 21)

Perchance to Stream: Labor Day 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.

• The Collegium Vocale Gent and Capriccio Stravagante, under Skip Sempé, perform Jean Gilles's Requiem pour les funérailles de Louis XV, recorded last June at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles. [France Musique]


• Listen to a performance of Bruckner's third symphony, and music by Wagner, with Andris Nelsons conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, recorded last June in Leipzig. [France Musique]


• From the Salzburg Festival, a performance of Otto Nicolai's Il templario starring Juan Diego Flórez (Vilfredo d'Ivanhoe), Clémentine Margaine (Rebecca), Luca Salsi (Briano di Bois-Guilbert), and others. Andrés Orozco Estrada conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and Salzburger Bachchor. [Ö1]


• René Jacobs conducts a performance of Gassmann's L´Opera seria at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. [ARTE]


• Christian Gerhaher joins the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester for Bach's Ich habe genug, and Philippe Jordan also conducts Bruckner's ninth symphony. [BBC Proms]


• Listen to the rest of the concerts from the past week at the Proms. [BBC Proms]


• Simon Rattle leads the Berlin Philharmonic in music of Grieg and Beethoven, plus the Mendelssohn violin concerto with soloist Vilde Frang. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• Watch Edgar Moreau play the first cello concerto of Saint-Saëns with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, under conductor Kazuki Yamada. [ARTE]


• From the Festival de Saint-Denis, the Orchestre National de France performs Beethoven's ninth symphony, conducted by Michele Mariotti and recorded in June at the Basilica of Saint-Denis. [France Musique]


• John Neschling conducts the Orchestre National de France, with pianist Bertrand Chamayou, soprano Malin Hartelius, and baritone Christian Immler, for music by Saint-Saëns and Zemlinsky, recorded at the Festival de Radio France. [Ö1]


• Daniel Harding leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the opening concert of the Musikfest Berlin, with the premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Poème dansé Tutuguri. [BR-Klassik]


• Andrew Manze conducts the Camerata Salzburg in music by Handel, J.C. Bach, Mozart, and Haydn. [Radio Clásica]


• From 2015, a performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens at the Hamburg Opera, starring Catharina Naglestad (Cassandre), Elena Zhidkova (Didon), and Torsten Kerl (Enée). [Radio Clásica]


• Listen to performances from the Early Music Festival in Utrecht. [AVRO Klassiek]


• Watch a program called Labirinto d'amore at the Festival de Sablé with Anna Reinhold and lutenist Thomas Dunford. [Culturebox]


• Nathalie Stutzmann and Emőke Baráth perform in Il duello amoroso, a selection of airs and duets by Handel, at the Festival de Sablé. [Culturebox]


• Watch three concerts from the International Music Festival "Stars on the Baikal," an event under the artistic direction of pianist Denis Matsuev at the Irkutsk State Musical Theater, near Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. [Medici.tv]


• The Mandelring Quartett plays music by Haydn, Ravel, and Schubert, recorded last month at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. [Ö1]


• Mezzo-soprano Marie-Claude Chappuis joins Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico for music by Haydn, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Sammartini, recorded in July at the Internationale Festival Geistlicher Musik - Freiburg. [Ö1]


• From the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, a Schubert recital by soprano Christina Landshamer, tenor Maximilian Schmitt, and pianist Gerold Huber. [Ö1]


• Rudolf Buchbinder plays a recital at the Carinthischer Sommer, recorded last month, with music by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. [Ö1]


• From the Festival Messiaen au Pays de La Meije, pianist Luis Fernando Pérez performs Albeniz's Ibéria. [France Musique]


• Les Muffati and Vox Luminis perform Telemann's Donnerode, composed in commemoration of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon, and Almeida's Mass in F Major, recoorded at the Festival de Sablé. [France Musique]


• Violinist Hiro Kurosaki performs Telemann's Zwölf Fantasien für Violine ohne Bass, TWV 40:14-25, recorded last month at the Innsbrucker Festwochen. [Ö1]


• From the Salzburg Festival, Constantinos Carydis leads the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg in an all-Mozart program. [Ö1]


• A recital by tenor Benjamin Bruns and pianist Gerold Huber, recorded last month at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. [Ö1]


• Listen to the recording of Stanislaw Moniuszko's opera Halka, starring Barbara Zagorzanka (Halka), Wieslaw Ochmann (Jontek), and others. [Ö1]


• Semyon Bychkov conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in music of Glanert and Brahms, recorded in 2015. [CSO]


• Watch performances by youth orchestras from around the world at the Young Euro Classic. [ARTE]


• From the Radio France archives, listen to Louis Armstrong play the Salle Pleyel in Paris, recorded on March 2, 1948. [France Musique]


• From the Proms, Semyon Bychkov leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Thomas Larcher's second symphony, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder (with Elisabeth Kulmann), and Strauss's Alpine Symphony. [France Musique]


• From the Proms, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performs music by Mozart, Abrahamsen, and Tchaikovsky, conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, with soprano Barbara Hannigan. [France Musique]

Perchance to Stream: End of Summer 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.

• Listen to a performance of Handel's Ariodante, starring Marina Rebeka (Ginevra), Yuriy Mynenko (Ariodante), Clara Meloni (Dalinda), and others, conducted by Diego Fasolis and recorded last April at the Lausanne Opera. [Ö1]


• Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and soloists in a performance of Purcell's The Fairy Queen, recorded last June in Barcelona. [Ö1]


• From the Rencontres internationales de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet, medieval polyphony performed by the Ensemble Gilles Binchois and the Ensemble Tavagna. [France Musique]


• Listen to Marek Janowski conduct this year's production of Das Rheingold at the Bayreuth Festival. [France Musique]


• From the Salzburg Festival, Daniel Harding conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in music by Eötvös, Brahms, and Mahler. [France Musique]


• Watch Tugan Sokhiev conduct the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester perform Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, recorded in Berlin. [ARTE]


• Watch several productions from the Glyndebourne Festival, including this summer's Barber of Seville. [Medici.tv]


• From the Styriarte Festival, Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Concentus Musicus Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Beethoven's ninth symphony, with soloists Regula Mühlemann, Elisabeth Kulman, Steve Davislim, and Florian Boesch. [Ö1]


• Have a listen to what was on this week at the Proms in London. [BBC Proms]


• The Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, conductor Gérard Korsten, and pianist Aaron Pilsan perform music by Miroslav Srnka, Mozart, and Strauss at the Bregenz Festival. [Ö1]


• David Robertson conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in George Lentz's Jerusalem and two symphonies of Schumann. [ABC Classic]

• From the Festival de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, under conductor Michael Schönwandt and with mezzo-soprano Karin Deshayes, perform Carl Nielsen's Suite for Orchestra, op. 34, Ravel's song cycle Shéhérazade, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. [Ö1]


• Soprano Jodie Devos and mezzo-soprano Caroline Meng perform arias and duets by Massenet, Chausson, Rossini and others, accompanied by the Giardini Quartet and recorded at the Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane in Paris. [France Musique]


• Music by Handel and Telemann from Il Botto Forte and countertenor Flavio Ferri-Benedetti, recorded at the church of Brunnenthal bei Schärding. [Ö1]


• From the Rencontres Musicales de Vezelay, the vocal ensemble Aedes and Les Surprises perform Bach's St. John Passion under conductor Mathieu Romano. [France Musique]


• Neville Marriner conducts the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg at the Salzburg Festival, with violinist Alina Pogostkina as soloist, in music by Mozart. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• From the Styriarte Festival, music by Bartók, Gershwin, and others performed by clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer, violinist Chouchane Siranossian, and pianist Christoph Traxler. [Ö1]

• Music by Stravinsky and others with the Academia Allegro Vivo, conductor Bijan Khadem-Missagh, singer Caroline Jestaedt, and saxophonist Michaela Reingruber. [Ö1]


• Listen to Alan Gilbert conduct the New York Philharmonic in Ravel, Nielsen's clarinet concerto, and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. [NY Phil]


• Chamber music by Mark Simpson, Kurtág, Schumann, and Stroppa performed by clarinetist Mark Simspon, violist Antoine Tamestit, and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• Have another listen to the performance of Janacek's Makropulos Affiar, with Jiri Belohlavek conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a cast starring Karita Mattila, recorded at the Proms in London. [France Musique]


• Listen to the recording of Verdi's Don Carlo starring Giulio Gari (Don Carlos), Leonie Rysanek (Elisabeth), and Robert Merrill (Posa). [Ö1]

Perchance to Stream: Books, Dirty Looks 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.

• The Vienna Philharmonic performs Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae at the Salzburg Festival, with Franz Welser Möst conducting a cast starring Krassaimira Stoyanova (Danae), Tomasz Konieczny (Jupiter), and Norbert Ernst (Mercury). [France Musique]


• Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux and pianist Daniel Blumenthal perform mélodies by Fauré, Lekeu, Hahn, Koechlin, Debussy, and Duparc at the Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane in Paris 2016. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Handel's Saul, staged by Barrie Kosky, from the Glyndebourne Festival. [ARTE]


• From the Salzburg Festival, Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's E-flat major piano concerto, with Emanuel Ax as soloist, plus Bruckner's sixth symphony. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• Bertrand de Billy conducts Halévy's opera La Juive, starring Robert Alagna, recorded last June at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. [Ö1]


• Watch Gautier Capuçon join the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille for a concert at the Bad Kissinger Sommer. [ARTE]


• From the Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu 2016, a concert by the Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France recreating the opening concert of the festival in 1966, with music by Georges Hugon, Franck, Liszt, and Schubert, recorded in the abbey church of Saint-Robert. [France Musique]


• The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin plays a selection of concertos for multiple instruments by Georg Philipp Telemann, recorded last May at the Arolsen Baroque Festival. [Ö1]


• Piano quartets by Brahms performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris by violinist Christian Tetzlaff, violist Tabea Zimmermann, cellist Clemens Hagen, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. [France Musique]


• Have a listen to what was on at the Proms this past week, including Stile Antico and Fretwork at Cadogan Hall, Augustin Hadelich and Steven Isserlis with the Britten Sinfonia and conductor Thomas Adès, Alice Coote and Gregory Kunde with the Hallé, the Sixteen in Bach motets, Jiří Bělohlávek leading a concert performance of Janacek's Makrupulos Case with Karita Mattila, and more. [BBC Proms]


• Watch an outdoor concert by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada. [ARTE]


• Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra in the closing concert of the Bad Kissinger Sommer. [ARTE]

• Watch Martin Grubinger and Vilde Frang join the Orchestre National de Lyon for a concert at the Bad Kissinger Sommer. [ARTE]


• The Altenberg Trio plays the Carinthischer Sommer Festival, with music by Beethoven, Lera Auerbach, and Brahms. [Ö1]


• From the Lugano Festival, Alexander Vedernikov leads the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, with violinist Renaud Capuçon, pianist Polina Leschenko, and cellist Mischa Maisky. [Ö1]


• Riccardo Muti leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a matinee concert at the Salzburg Festival, with Gerhard Oppitz as piano soloist, in a program including Bruckner's second symphony. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• From this past March, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius's second symphony, plus Beethoven's fourth piano concerto with Emanuel Ax as soloist. [CSO]


• Jaap van Zweden leads the New York Philharmonic in music by Wagenaar, Korngold, and Beethoven. [NY Phil]


• Music by Schubert recorded at the Styriarte Festival with tenor Markus Schäfer and friends. [Ö1]


• The Bavarian Radio Choir, under Howard Arman, performs Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• Music by Josquin Desprez, Anoine Busnoys, and Johannes Ockeghem from Cut Circle, recorded last May at the Dominican church in Regensburg for the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg. [Ö1]


• Music by Kurt Schwertsik, HK Gruber, and Friedrich Cerha performed by the österreichisches ensemble für neue musik at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• From La Roque d'Anthéron recital programs by pianists Nathalia Milstein and Ran Jia. [France Musique]


• A piano recital by Christian Zacharias recorded at the Château de Florans for the La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, with music by Scarlatti, Ravel, Soler, and Chopin. [France Musique]


• Listen to the recording of Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland, with Hans Zanotelli conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded in 1963 in Berlin. [Ö1]

Perchance to Stream: Assumpta est Maria 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.

• From the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2016, listen to Beethoven cello sonatas performed by Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov. [France Musique]


• Emmanuelle Haïm leads a Monteverdi gala concert, with Le Concert d'Astrée and soloists including Rolando Villazón, Magdalena Kožená, and Topi Lehtipuu, recorded at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. [ARTE]


• Riccardo Chailly opens the Lucerne Festival with a performance of Mahler's eighth symphony. [ARTE]


• From the Bregenz Festival, Enrique Mazzola leads the Vienna Symphony in Donizetti's Requiem Mass. [Ö1]


• Alfredo Bernardini conducts Concerto Copenhagen and soprano Julia Doyle in music by Handel, recorded at the Tivoli Festival. [Ö1]


• From the Lugano Festival, Stephen Kovacevich, Martha Argerich, and friends perform music by Fauré, Mozart, and Ravel. [Ö1]


• Listen to a performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra from the Sydney Opera House. [ABC Classic]


• Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa play music for two pianos, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• From the Styriarte Festival, Concentus Musicus Wien and conductor Andrés Oroczo-Estrada perform symphonies 4 and 5 by Beethoven, recorded last month. [Ö1]


• Soprano Sandrine Piau and pianist Susan Manoff perform songs by Fauré, Wolf, Chausson, and others, recorded last May at the Schwetzinger Festival. [Ö1]


• Watch the performance of Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict from the Glyndebourne Festival. [Glyndebourne]


• Listen to the concerts from this week at the Proms in London. [BBC Proms]

• The Vienna Philharmonic plays a concert in the Schönbrunn Gardens, with Zubin Mehta conducting music of Richard Strauss, Nielsen, Grieg, and others. [France Musique]


• Helene Grimaud joins the Australian Youth Orchestra and conductor Manfred Honeck at their homecoming concert at Hamer Hall in Melbourne. [ABC Classic]


• The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, performs in Perth, Australia. [ABC Classic]


• Listen to Jaap van Zweden conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante and Shostakovich's eighth symphony. [NY Phil]


• The Sinfonia Orchestra plays Mozart concertos with Frank Braley and Anne Keffélec, recorded at the La Roque d'Anthéron Festival. [France Musique]


• Also from La Roque d'Anthéron 2016, a recital by pianist Nikolai Lugansky. [France Musique]


• Watch more concerts from the Verbier Festival. [Medici.tv]


• From the Salzburg Festival, Ivor Bolton leads the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg in music by Mozart. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• Cornelius Meister leads the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien in music by Ravel and Friedrich Cerha, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• Charles Richard-Hamelin and Seong-Jin Cho perform concertos by Mozart and Chopin with the Sinfonia Varsovia, at La Roque d'Anthéron. [France Musique]


• From the Août Musical de Deauville, music by Schubert, Debussy, and Schumann from pianist Ismaël Margain and friends. [France Musique]

Perchance to Stream: Dog Days 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.

• Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara died last week. Watch a 2013 performance of his Vigilia, in the Ouspenski Orthodox Cathedral in Helsinki. [ARTE | Part 2]


• From last year's Rossini Festival in Pesaro, listen to a performance of Rossini's La gazza ladra starring Simone Alberghini, Nino Machaidze, René Barbera and others. [Radio Clásica]


• Have another listen to the July 25 performance of Wagner's Parsifal, from the Bayreuth Festival. [France Musique]


• From the Chorégies d'Orange, Louis Désiré's staging of Verdi's La Traviata, starring Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Meli, and Plácido Domingo, under conductor Daniele Rustioni. [Medici.tv]


• Watch more concerts (and rehearsals) from the Verbier Festival. [Medici.tv]


• From earlier this year, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his own composition Foreign Bodies and Lutosławski's third symphony. Also Yo-Yo Ma plays the first Shostakovich cello concerto. [CSO]


• Manfred Honeck conducts the New York Philharmonic in music of Beethoven and Strauss. [NY Phil]


• Conductor Lorenzo Viotti and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili join the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Salzburg Festival, with music by Kabalevsky, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• The Vienna Philharmonic and Hungarian Radio Chorus, under Daniel Harding, perform Peter Eötvös's oratorio Hallelujah at the Salzburg Festival with mezzo-soprano Iris Vermilion and tenor Topi Lehtipuu. [Ö1]


• Have a listen to some of the concerts at this year's Proms in London. [BBC Proms]


• A concert of chamber music by Beethoven and Zemlinsky, performed by Eric Le Sage, Emmanuel Pahud, and others at the Festival International de Musique de Chambre de Provence. [France Musique]

Perchance to Stream: Santa Fe 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.

• Damien Guillon conducts Le Banquet Céleste and soloists in a performance of Handel's Acis et Galatée, recorded at the Basilica of Notre-Dame for the Festival de Beaune. [France Musique]


• Watch the premiere of the production of Wagner's Parsifal, recorded at the Bayreuth Festival. [BR-Klassik]


• Also from the Festival de Beaune, Sébastien Daucé leads the ensemble Correspondances and soloists in Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers and part of Purcell's Ode to Saint Cecilia. [France Musique]


• Watch Les Arts Florissants perform Bach Cantatas at the Festival de Beaune. [ARTE]


• Watch the production of Hamlet by Franco Faccio staged at the Bregenz Festival. [ARTE]


• The ensemble Les Accents performs Vivaldi's Tamerlano at the Festival de Beaune, under the baton of Thibault Noally. [France Musique]


• From the Waldbühne, Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Berlin Philharmonic and violinist Lisa Batiashvili in music by Smetana and Dvorak. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• From the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, a performance of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta. [Ö1]


• A rare performance of Francesco Cavalli's opera Veremonda, l'amazzone di Aragona, recorded by Concerto Köln at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in April. [Ö1]


• Domingo Hindoyan conducts a performance of Mascagni's bizarre opera Iris, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva, recorded at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier. [France Musique]


• Have a listen to some of the concerts at the Proms in London. [BBC Proms]


• A production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte from Opera Australia. [ABC Classic]


• From the Festival de Radio France, pianist Beatrice Rana plays Bach's Goldberg Variations, plus music by Corette, Boismortier, and Rebel performed by the Ensemble Meridiana, recorded at the Rougemont Festival in 2015. [France Musique]


• Music of Vivaldi and others recorded by L'Orfeo Barockorchester, under violinist Michi Gaigg, from the Brunnenthaler Konzertsommer Festival. [Ö1]


• The Orchestre Baroque de Montauban "Les Passions" and the chamber chorus Les Eléments, under Jean-Marc Andrieu, perform the modern world premiere of three grands motets by Antoine-Esprit Blanchard, recorded at the Festival de Radio France. [France Musique]

Perchance to Stream: Tour de France 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 production of Stravinsky's Œdipus Rex, paired with the same composer's Symphonie de Psaumes, unfortunately staged by Peter Sellars, with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. [Culturebox]


• From the Festival de Radio France Montpellier Occitanie, a performance of Rameau's Zoroastre with Raphaël Pichon leading the Ensemble Pygmalion and soloists. [France Musique]


• From the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Kirill Petrenko leads a performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg starring Wolfgang Koch (Hans Sachs), Jonas Kaufmann (Stolzing), Benjamin Bruns (David), and Sara Jakubiak (Eva). [Ö1]


• Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Chamber Orchesra of Europe, the Bavarian Radio Choir, and soloists Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Werner Güra, and Gerald Finley in Haydn's Die Schöpfung, recorded at the Salzburg Festival. [Ö1]


• At the Festival della Valle d'Itria, Fabio Luisi leads a performance of Mayr's opera Medea in Corinto, starring Davinia Rodríguez (Medea), Michael Spyres (Giasone), Roberto Lorenzi (Creonte), and others, recorded in the Palazzo Ducale de Martina Franca. [Radio Clásica]


• Jérémie Rhorer leads Concentus Musicus Wien in Beethoven's third and sixth symphonies, recorded earlier this month at the Styriarte Festival in Graz. [Ö1]


• Laurence Cummings leads a gala concert celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Internationalen Händel-Festspiele Göttingen. [Ö1]


• Valery Gergiev conducts the U.S. National Youth Orchestra in music by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev from the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Occitanie with pianist Denis Matsuev as soloist. [France Musique]


• From the Bach Festival at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra performs music of Bach and selections from Reger's Requiem Mass, with the St. Thomas Choir. [Radio Clásica]

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Perchance to Stream: Almost 13th Anniversary 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.

• Schubert's Winterreise, performed last month by baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. [Ö1]


• From the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, a concert by the Quatuor Arcanto, with music by Purcell, Britten, and Beethoven, followed by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras as soloist with the Orchestra de Chambre de Paris, recorded in Paris. [France Musique]


• From the Théâtre de l'Archevêché at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra plays music by Handel and Bach, including the fifth Brandenburg Concerto. [France Musique]


• Mikko Franck conducts Puccini's Madama Butterfly, with Ermonela Jaho, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Bryan Hymel, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, recorded at Les Chorégies d'Orange, preceded by a recital by pianist Frédéric Vaysse-Knitter. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from the Glyndebourne Festival. [Glyndebourne]


• Listen to Bernard Haitink conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mahler's ninth symphony, recorded this past April. [NY Phil]


• Cantus Cölln, conducted by Konrad Junghänel, performs Bach cantatas (BWV 172, 131, and 234), recorded last May in the Kirche St. Joseph in Speyer, as part of the Schwetzinger Festival. [Ö1]


• The Dresdner Barockorchester and Kammerchor, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, perform Heinrich Schütz's Aus den "Psalmen Davids" at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg in May. [Ö1]


• A performance of Offenbach's Ba-Ta-Clan, conducted by Jean-Christophe Keck, recorded in the Salle Pasteur of the Corum de Montpellier. [France Musique]


• A concert by the Wiener Philharmoniker with conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada and violinist Hilary Hahn, recorded last month. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• The Proms opened on Friday night in London: you can listen to the performances. [BBC Proms]


• Listen again to Benjamin Godard's Dante, starring Véronique Gens, with Ulf Schirmer conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra. [Ö1]


• From the Styriarte Festival, Karina Canellakis leads Concentus Musicus Wien in the second and seventh symphonies of Beethoven, recorded last month in Graz. [Ö1]


• Listen to the conclusion of Opera North's Ring Cycle, with this performance of Götterdammerung. [BBC3]


• Watch more concerts from the Flâneries Musicales d'été de Reims. [Medici.tv]


• Listen to the performances from the Sydney International Piano Competition. [BBC Classic]


• From the Festival Radio France Montpellier Occitanie, music by Nielsen (Aladdin), Ravel (Shéhérazade), and Rimsky-Korsakov (Shéhérazade) recorded at the Opéra Berlioz, with Michaël Schonwandt leading Karine Deshayes, Lambert Wilson, and the Orchestre National Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon. [France Musique]


• Semyon Bychkov leads the Sommernachtskonzert of the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Schönbrunn Park, with Katia Labèque and Marielle Labèque playing Poulec's Concerto for Two Pianos, plus music by Bizet, Berlioz, and Ravel. [Ö1]


• A recital by violinist Ragnild Hemsing and pianist Tor Espen Aspaas, with music by Grieg, Johan Svendsen, Nielsen, and Lasse Thoresen, recorded at the Schwetzinger Festival. [Ö1]


• The Artemis Quartet plays music by Mozart, Grieg, and Eduard Demetz at the Wiener Konzerthaus. [Ö1]


• A recording of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko, starring Vladimir Galusin (Sadko) and Marianna Tarassova (Ljubawa), recorded live at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in 1993. [Ö1]


• Listen to concerts from the Montreux Jazz Festival. [France Musique | Part 2]

Perchance to Stream: Margaritaville 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.

• From the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, starring Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, and Laurent Naouri, in the Grand Théâtre de Provence. [France Musique]


• Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Le Concert d'Astrée in Handel's Il Trionfo Del Tempo e Del Disinganno at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, starring Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, and Michael Spyres and recorded at the Théâtre de l'Archevêché. [France Musique]


• Listen to the Opera North Ring Cycle, recorded in Sage Gateshead, led by the Brünnhilde of Kelly Cae Hogan. [Das Rheingold | Die Walküre | Siegfried]


• Watch Christophe Rousset lead Les Talens Lyriques in a "Tribute to Shakespeare" at the Théâtre Elisabéthain d'Hardelot with soprano Maria Grazia Schiavo. [ARTE]


• From the Wigmore Hall in London, a recital of Beethoven violin sonatas played by violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Igor Levit. [BBC3]


• The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin performs Brandenburg Concertos and orchestral suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded last May in Barcelona. [Ö1]


• The European Union Baroque Orchestra, under violinist Rachel Podger, perform last May in the Basilika St. Emmeram as part of the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg. [Ö1]


• From the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, soprano Marlis Petersen, tenor Werner Güra, and pianist Christoph Berner perform a concert of songs, recorded last month in the Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal, Schwarzenberg. [Ö1]


• Listen to a performance of Rossini's Guillaume Tell, starring Jean-François Lapointe (Tell), John Osborne (Arnold), and Nadine Koutcher, recorded last September with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in the Grand Théâtre de Geneve. [Ö1]


• Pianist Lukas Vondracek won this year's Queen Elisabeth Competition, and you can watch all of the finalists. [Queen Elisabeth Competition]


• Tenor Ian Bostridge performs Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Saskia Giorgini, recorded at the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival. [Avro Klassiek]


• The New York Philharmonic performs his Third Symphony with mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink and conductor Bernard Haitink. [NY Phil]


• From the Royal Festival Hall in London, a recital by pianist Paul Lewis, with music by Schubert, Brahms and Liszt. [BBC3]


• Watch Krzysztof Urbanski conduct the NDR Philharmonic Hamburg in an open-air concert in the port of Hamburg, with cellist Sol Gabetta. [ARTE]


• The Wiener Symphoniker, with conductor Robert Trevino and pianist Alice Sara Ott, perform music by Tchaikovsky and Dvorak. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• The Vienna Piano Trio plays music by C.P.E. Bach and Rebecca Clarke, recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and Andrew Manze leads Mendelssohn's third symphony with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. [BBC3]


• From the Opéra de Lausanne, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli leads a performance of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment, starring Julie Fuchs (Marie) and Frédéric Antoun (Tonio), recorded last March. [Radio Clásica]


• From the Styriarte Festival, pianist Bernd Glemser plays music by Liszt and Chopin, recorded last month at the Helmut-List-Halle in Graz. [Ö1]


• Juanjo Mena leads the BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Hallé Youth Chorus, and harpist Marie-Pierre Langlemat in Ginastera's harp concerto and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. [Ö1]


• Dennis Russell Davies leads the Bruckner Orchester Linz, with trumpeter Till Brönner, in music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Metamorphose), Miles Davis, and Wolfgang Dauner. [Ö1]


• Chamber music by Hindemith, Mozart, Boulez, and Tchaikovsky performed by Liana Gourdija and friends, recorded for the Festival Juventus at the Théâtre de Cambrai. [France Musique]

Perchance to Stream: Independence Day 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.

• Collegium Vocale Gent, under Philippe Herreweghe, performs the Le Lagrime di San Pietro of Orlando Lassus, recorded in April at the Oratoire du Louvre. [France Musique]


• Watch a performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks at the Château de Chambord, with Hervé Niquet conducting Le Concert Spirituel. [ARTE]


• Watch Philippe Jordan conduct the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris in arias by Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, and others, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anita Rachvelishvili, and others. [ARTE]


• Watch the double-bill of Senza Sangue by Péter Eötvös and Bartók's Bluebeard’s Castle at the Armel Opera Festival. [ARTE]


• Listen to Handel's Jephtha performed by Accademia Bizantina and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, recorded in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Beaune. [Radio Clásica]


• A recital by pianist Marc-André Hamelin from the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, with music by Maria Szymanowska, Mozart, Schubert, and Liszt. [Ö1]


• Listen to the performance of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, in an English translation by Tom Stoppard, performed by Opera Australia. [ABC Classic]


• Watch the production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor from the Opéra Grand Avignon. [CultureBox]


• Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestre National de France in a concert of Liszt, Wagner, and Bruckner, with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recorded last May. [France Musique]


• Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Karina Canellakis, performs three Beethoven symphonies in Graz. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• Laurence Commings conducts the NDR Chor at the Göttingen Festival in Handel's Susanna, with Emily Fons (Susanna) leading the soloists. [Ö1]

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Perchance to Stream: End of June 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.

• From St John's Smith Square, Paul McCreesh leads a performance of Haydn's The Seasons, in a new English translation, with the Gabrieli Consort and Players and soloists led by soprano Carolyn Sampson. [BBC3]


• From the Lyon Piano Festival, music for two pianos by Mozart, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, and Ravell with Martha Argerich and friends. [France Musique]


• A performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, starring Véronique Gens and Nicolas Rivenq, with Jean-Claude Malgoire conducting La Grande Ecurie and la Chambre du Roy at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique]


• The Jerusalem Quartet begins its 20th anniversary series at Wigmore Hall with music by Beethoven, Bartók, and Brahms. [BBC3]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in music by Webern and Bruckner. [Ö1]


• Watch Daniele Gatti direct music of Verdi in Parma, for the 200th anniversary of the composer's death, recorded in 2013. [ARTE]


• Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in music of Prokofiev and Beethoven, plus Scriabin's Prometheus, the Poem of Fire with pianist Kirill Gerstein, recorded last December. [CSO]


• Dance music and arias from Rameau's Dardanus and Pigmalion, with Michi Gaigg leading L'Orfeo Barockorchester, soprano Dorothee Mields, and tenor Anders J. Dahlin, recorded last month at the Barocktage Stift Melk. [Ö1]


• The New York Philharmonic performs Mozart's last three symphonies, with Alan Gilbert at the podium. [NY Phil]

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Perchance to Stream: Crooked Lake 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.

• Christian Thielemann leads the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in Beethoven's third piano concerto, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, Strauss songs with Anna Netrebko, and Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. [ORF | Part 2]


• Ivor Bolton conducts a performance of Wagner's Das Liebesverbot, starring Christopher Maltman, recorded in March at the Teatro Real in Madrid. [ORF]


• The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Knussen, performs at the Aldeburgh Festival. [BBC3]


• The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France closes out its season, with Mikko Franck with a program reflecting his first season with the ensemble, including music by Lindberg, Rautavaara, and Debussy. [France Musique]


• Leonard Slatkin conducts a concert by the Orchestre National de Lyon, with music by Berlioz, Debussy, Ravel, and Bruno Mantovani, including solos from Juliette Hurel (flute) and Renaud Capuçon (violin). [France Musique]


• Music by Schnittke, Messiaen, and Shostakovich from the Orchestre National de France, with Andris Poga leading Fazil Say at the piano. [France Musique]


• The Marian Consort and Berkeley Ensemble perform Lennox Berkeley's Stabat Mater at the Spitalfields Festival. [BBC3]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Cornelius Meister leads the RSO Wien in Mahler's seventh symphony and Rainer Bischofs Totentanz. [ORF]


• The Ensemble Amarillis, with Héloise Gaillard and soprano Patricia Petibon, performs at the Barocktage Stift Melk. [ORF]


• From the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, a recital by pianist Adam Laloum, playing Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze and Schubert's B-flat major sonata. [France Musique]

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Perchance to Stream: Summer Vacation 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 production of Berg's Wozzeck from the Zurich Opera, with Fabio Luisi leading a cast starring Christian Gerhaher and Brandon Jovanovich. [ARTE]


• Listen to a performance of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, recorded in April at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden, with Henrik Schaefer leading a cast starring Thomas Oliemans (Hamlet), Ditte Højgaard Andersen (Ophelia), Paul Whelan (Claudius), and Katarina Karnéus (Gertrude). [Ö1]


• Listen to the the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, under Iván Fischer, perform Beethoven's seventh symphony. [AVRO Klassiek]


• Cellist Truls Mørk joins the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France for Prokofiev's Symphonie concertante, plus Marzena Diakun conducts Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. [France Musique]


• Pianist Lars Vogt and conductor Alan Gilbert join the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, with music by Nielsen, Rouse, and Mozart, recorded in Munich last December. [Ö1]


• From Salisbury Cathedral, the choir Vox Luminis performs sacred music by members of the Bach family, culminating in Johann Sebastian's powerful motet Jesu meine Freude. [BBC3]


• Watch Semyon Bychkov lead pianist Kirill Gerstein and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in a performance of Rachmaninov's second piano concerto. [ARTE]


• Under conductor Stefano Barneschi, countertenor Franco Fagioli joins the Basel Chamber Orchestra for a recital of opera arias by Cavalli, Haendel, Lully, Porpora, and others. [France Musique]


• Pianist Daniil Trifonov plays a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London, with music by Brahms, Schubert, and Rachmaninov. [BBC3]


• Watch some of the concerts of the Palazetto Bru Zane Festival from the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. [Medici.tv]

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Perchance to Stream: Class of 2016 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.

• William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants in a concert of "airs sérieux et à boire" by Charpentier, Lambert, Le Camus, and Moulinié, recorded last month at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]


• From the Royal Opera House in London, listen to a performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, starring Diana Damrau (Lucia), Charles Castronovo (Edgardo), and Ludovic Tézier. [Ö1]


• Watch Christophe Rousset conduct a performance of Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto in Brussels. [De Munt]


• Watch Peter Dijkstra lead a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor, with Concerto Köln and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. [ARTE]


• From St John's Smith Square, London, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Voices in music of Stravinsky, including the Requiem Canticles, the Mass, and other works. [BBC3]


• The BBC Singers and St James's Baroque perform Handel's oratorio Saul, recorded in April at Milton Court in London. [BBC3]


• Watch Daniel Harding lead the Orchestre de Paris in Berg's violin concerto, with Isabelle Faust as soloist, and Mahler's fourth symphony, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris. [Philharmonie de Paris]


• From the Vienna Konzerthaus, pianist Till Fellner plays a recital of music by Mozart, Bach, Schumann, and Stankovsky. [France Musique]


• Listen to Yuja Wang's Sydney recital debut, with music by Scriabin, Chopin, and Balakirev. [ABC Classic]


• Watch the competitors at this year's Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. [ARTE]

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Perchance to Stream: Memorial Day 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.

• For the opening of the Festival de Saint-Denis, Mikko Franck leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a performance of Mahler's third symphony. [ARTE | France Musique]


• In case you missed it, listen to the Metropolitan Opera broadcast of Strauss's Elektra, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting a cast starring Nina Stemme (Elektra), Adrianne Pieczonka (Chrysothemis), Waltraud Meier (Klytämnestra), and Eric Owens (Orest). [Ö1]


• From the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Belcea Quartet plays chamber music by Beethoven, Webern, Brahms, and Britten. [France Musique]


• Antonio Pappano conducts a concert with cellist Jan Vogler and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, in music of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Rossini. [France Musique]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, a concert by Daniil Trifonov as soloist in Liszt's first piano concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, under Manfred Honeck. [Ö1]


• Listen to a 1977 recording of Handel's Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt leading Concentus Musicus Wien. [Ö1]

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Perchance to Stream: Twilight of the #DCRing 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.

• Listen to a performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt from Westminster Abbey, with James O'Donnell leading the Westminster Abbey Choir and St James's Baroque. [BBC3]


• Semyon Bychkov leads a performance of Wagner's Parsifal starring Detlef Roth, Christian Elsner, Evgeny Nikitin, Anja Kampe, and others, from the Teatro Real in Madrid. [Radio Clásica]


• Watch a recital of chamber music for soprano and strings with soprano Anna Prohaska recorded at the Schwetzingen Festival. [ARTE]


• Antonio Pappano conducts Mahler's sixth symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra, plus Shostakovich's first violin concerto. [BBC3]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's ninth symphony, recorded at the Musikverein. [ORF]


• From the Royal Festival Hall in London, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a Stravinsky program, including the Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Agon, and the Rite of Spring. [BBC3]


• Jukka-Pekka Sarasate leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a concert of music by Magnus Lindberg, including his violin concerto with Simone Lamsma. [France Musique]


• Music from 16th-century Bruges, by Adrian Willaert, Jean de Castro, Philippe de Monte, Thomas Crequillon, and others, performed by the Ensemble Doulce Mémoire. [France Musique]


• Listen to Mahler's second symphony, with Vassily Sinaisky conducting the BBC Philharmonic, soprano Olena Tokar, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, and the CBSO Chorus. [BBC3]


• Daniel Harding leads the Orchestre de Paris in Mahler's fourth symphony, plus Isabelle Faust in Berg's violin concerto. [Philharmonie de Paris]

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Perchance to Stream: Ring Cycle 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.

• Roger Norrington leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Philippe Cassard in Mozart's 22nd piano concerto. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Mozart's Mitridate, re di Ponto recorded at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. [ARTE]


• Paul Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants in a concert of music by Monteverdi, Pallavicino, and de Wert, recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris. [France Musique]


• Listen to Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Cappella Amsterdam. [AVRO Klassiek | Part 2 | Part 3]


• A performance of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust with the orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris, starring Sophie Koch (Marguerite), Jonas Kaufmann (Faust), and Bryn Terfel (Méphistophélès) and conducted by Philippe Jordan. [ORF]


• Watch a Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's Turandot recorded at the Arena di Verona in 2010, starring Maria Guleghina and Salvatore Licitra. [ARTE]


• The Regensburger Domspatzen perform sacred music of Haydn with L'Orfeo Barockorchester, recorded at the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg. [BR-Klassik]


• Watch Tugan Sokhiev lead a concert by the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester with cellist Gautier Capuçon in Berlin. [ARTE]


• The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, under conductor Herbert Blomstedt, performs Beethoven's second symphony and Sibelius's second symphony, in a concert recorded last December in Leipzig. [ORF | Part 2]

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Perchance to Stream: Call Your Mother 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.

• Masaaki Suzuki conducts Bach Collegium Japan in a concert last month at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. [France Musique]


• Watch the production of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi from the Zurich Opera. [ARTE]


• From the Wiener Festwochen, Zubin Mehta leads a performance of Mahler's second symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic. [Ö1]


• Lise Lindstrom and Yusif Eyvazov star in a performance of Puccini's Turandot from the Wiener Staatsoper, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. [Ö1]


• Stefan Gottfried conducts Concentus Musicus Wien, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, and soloists in a performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass. [Ö1 | Part 2]


• Violinist Janine Jansen joins the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, with conductor Daniel Blendulf. [Ö1]


• Tenor Piotr Beczala and pianist Helmut Deutsch perform Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe. [Ö1]

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