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14.9.14

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, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast. Some of these streams become unavailable after a few days.

  • Mezzo-soprano Béatrice Uria-Monzon joins the Vienna Singverein and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, under conductor Myung-Whun Chung, for music by Messiaen and Rossini. [France Musique]

  • Robert Abbado conducts a performance of Donizetti's La Favorite, starring Elina Garanca and Juan Diego Flórez, recorded last month at the Salzburg Festival. [BR-Klassik]

  • Watch many performances of the semifinal and final rounds from the ARD Music Competition -- this year including wind quintet, cello, piano, and percussion. [BR-Klassik]

  • Listen to music by Berg and Mahler with Daniele Gatti leading the Orchestre National de France, joined by violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, and tenor Stephen Gould. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a selection of motets made for the royal convents in France, by Nivers, Du Mont, and others, performed by the Ensemble Correspondances at the Abbaye de Royaumont. [France Musique]

  • Pianist Igor Levit plays a recital of music by Beethoven, recorded last month at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. [ORF]

  • From the Haydn Festival in Esterhazy, Adam Fischer leads the Österreichisch-Ungarischen Haydn Philharmonie in a performance of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with Rainer Honeck and Veronika Hagen. [ORF]

  • Alan Gilbert conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 3. [BBC Proms]

  • A concert from the Innsbruck Early Music Festival, with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor performing Bach motets. [ORF]

  • Listen to the opening concert of the Brucknerfest in Linz, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in music of Ravel and Bruckner, with pianist Fazil Say. [ORF]

  • The TScottish Chamber Orchestra, under conductor Ben Gernon, performs music by Peter Maxwell Davies. [BBC Proms]

  • Eivind Aadland leads a concert by the Oslo Philharmonic, with music by Vieuxtemps, Schumann, and Christian Sinding, with violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad as soloist. [RTBF]

  • The debut of Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, in music of Grieg, Schubert, and others, recorded last month. [ORF]

  • Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in music of Widmann and Brahms at the Proms. [Part 1 | Part 2]

  • Leonard Slatkin leads the Orchestre National de Lyon in versions of Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev and others, as well as a selection of music inspired by machines. [France Musique]

  • The Nash Ensemble, under John Wilson, performs Shostakovich waltzes and Walton's Facade. [BBC Proms]

  • Listen to the Salzburg Festival recital by violinist Vilde Frang and pianist Michail Lifits, recorded last month. [ORF]

  • Violist Liza Ferschman and Het Gelders Orkest perform music by Ravel and Chausson. [Avro Klassiek]

  • Piano duo Lidija and Sanja Bizjak perform music by American composers, including Barber, Nancarrow, and Bolcom, at the Festival Pianos Folies. [France Musique]

  • From the Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, listen to music by Messiaen and Florentz performed by the Ensemble Musicatreize and the Orchestre Régional de Cannes Paca, recorded in July in the Collégiale de Briançon. [France Musique]

  • The European Union Youth Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, performs Shostakovich's fourth symphony and Bruch's first violin concerto, with soloist Vilde Frang, at the Grafenegg Sommerkonzerte Festival. [ORF]

  • Alan Gilbert conducts the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. [BBC Proms]

  • Have another listen to that Flying Dutchman from the Vienna Staatsoper, starring Bryn Terfel. [France Musique]

  • Krzysztof Urbanski leads the Berlin Philharmonic, with cellist Sol Gabetta, in music by Smetana, Martinu, and Dvorak. [France Musique]

  • Listen to a recital of Beethoven sonatas by pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha. [France Musique]

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