Classical music streaming during quarantine one-stop shop

[gurnemanz]

Wiener Staatsoper/Arte Concert have lots to offer. Eg New Parsifal coming up from Sunday - free stream.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/102879-000-A/richard-wagner-parsifal/

[bluestateprommer]

Watching the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra video (missed most of the Mozart), about to see the KCO start Schumann 3:

https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/concert/stream-vikingur-olafsson-plays-mozart

[gurnemanz]

Schubert Winterreise as ballet from Zurich.

https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/102168-000-A/winterreise-a-ballet-by-christian-spuck/

[bluestateprommer]

Carnegie Hall is offering a slightly oddball series, of older classical videos of works "central to the Hall's history":

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Watch-and-Listen/Live-with-Carnegie-Hall/Carnegie-Hall-Selects

The guess is that all of these videos are already on YT, but from what I can tell, the visual quality is probably superior than a standard YT upload. Plus, Carnegie Hall will have followed the rules in paying proper fees and royalties on the videos, so that I feel better watching the videos through Carnegie Hall's feed (and can make a donation to CH for this). I watched the Alexis Weissenberg / Berlin Phil / Karajan video, @1967 vintage. Besides the standard narcissistic putting of HvK at the center of many shots, it's interesting now to see the artsy quality of some of the camera work as being ahead of its time, in the context of the fancy lighting of the Royal Festival Hall for the recent LPO quarantine videos, for example. I had thought that these videos were from actual Carnegie Hall performances, but that's not the case here, it seems.

Also starting to catch up with more symphony orchestra videos that I've neglected (some to my cost, which I've missed, like the MG-T Royal Stockholm Philharmonic video earlier this year), like this BRSO concert with Jansons and Iveta Apkalna:

https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-1710884.html

I was afraid that BR had removed the video after a certain time, but fortunately this isn't the case (yet), as the Poulenc Organ Concerto is a favorite work. I still need to watch the Saint-Saens, with IA doing her double-duty there after the Poulenc.

[bluestateprommer]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra video now, Mahler 5 + a new work, watching it now:

https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/concert/stream-fabio-luisi-conducts-mahler

[Richard Barrett]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra video now, Mahler 5 + a new work

The music is, in the composer’s words, ‘voluptuously tonal, drenched in harmonies reminiscing Mahler, Ravel and disco-divas of the 1970s’.

Gosh!

[LMcD]

Gosh!

Reads like one of those absurd descriptions of wine that feature in the weekend papers. An exciting first for me - 'reminisce' used as a transitive verb.

[Joseph K]

[Bryn]

Tuned in late but caught Ian Pace's piece and now awaiting the PMD, the premiere of which I attended on the eve of my 21st birthday. Hopefully, the whole event will be made available on demand.
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[Bryn]

I'm finding the audio a bit glitchy. A pity. I like the minimalist 'cages' formed by the screens. Benedict Nelson not quite as manic as Roy Strong, back in 1969.

[bluestateprommer]

Sorry about not posting this earlier, but the most recent "Carnegie Hall Selects" video (available for only another 18 hours or so) is of Sibelius 6 and 7, with SSR conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, but from the Barbican and not the Philharmonie Berlin:

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Watch-and-Listen/Live-with-Carnegie-Hall/Carnegie-Hall-Selects

It has a BBC production credit at the end, so presumably this video aired on the BBC at some point.

SSR does his now standard Sibelius party trick of conducting 6 & 7 as a single meta-work, with no applause after 6 and launching into 7 with the briefest of pauses. With time, I've come to disagree strongly with this approach, since it rather diminishes the stature of 6 as a stand-alone work. Of course, the issue on video is avoid by simply hitting the pause button after 6 is done ;) . (FWIW, I thought that I'd heard a momentary chord glitch during 7.)

[bluestateprommer]

Following on my recent day trip to Minneapolis, recently discovered, very belatedly, the recent video archive of the Minnesota Orchestra:

https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/digital-concerts/

I'd actually watched live on New Year's Eve, being homebound for the evening, the all-Sibelius concert that Osmo Vanska conducted, with Symphonies 2 & 7, plus 5 of the Six Humoresques. From the library, the first concert that I sampled was this one from this past October:

https://mnorch.vhx.tv/videos/vanska-conducts-romeo-and-juliet

Your side of the pond is well represented by Lorna McGhee, traipsing over from Pittsburgh, as the soloist for the Kaija Saariaho work, Aile du songe. (Another video has the Nonet of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, which I'll have to make time for later.) As well, for those who recall the last Minnesota Orchestra appearance at the Proms, where Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Newhouse co-presented with Petroc, BN makes an appearance in a different capacity here.

[gradus]

Following on my recent day trip to Minneapolis, recently discovered, very belatedly, the recent video archive of the Minnesota Orchestra:

https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/digital-concerts/

I'd actually watched live on New Year's Eve, being homebound for the evening, the all-Sibelius concert that Osmo Vanska conducted, with Symphonies 2 & 7, plus 5 of the Six Humoresques. From the library, the first concert that I sampled was this one from this past October:

https://mnorch.vhx.tv/videos/vanska-conducts-romeo-and-juliet

Your side of the pond is well represented by Lorna McGhee, traipsing over from Pittsburgh, as the soloist for the Kaija Saariaho work, Aile du songe. (Another video has the Nonet of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, which I'll have to make time for later.) As well, for those who recall the last Minnesota Orchestra appearance at the Proms, where Minnesota Public Radio's Brian Newhouse co-presented with Petroc, BN makes an appearance in a different capacity here.

Thanks very much for these links unfortunately the video keeps buffering but I'll persist as there are artists that rarely appear here.

[Bryn]

Thanks very much for these links unfortunately the video keeps buffering but I'll persist as there are artists that rarely appear here.

In situations where buffering is a problem, I find Audials (I have both the 2019 and 2022 versions but find the 2019 more reliable) can help. It saves the whole thing for later playback. Audials is not free but often turns up at significantly discounted prices.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Audials - Is that with the streaming video playing in real time? (On Edit - does it play/record in real time but have a greater buffering capacity to copy, and then store/present what should be an uninterrupted video?)

I can use Total Recorder (Video Pro iteration) for that purpose. It costs a little but is the audio recording software I have used from way back (possibly from Win 95 days) and can also record video in real time. A good audio editor but not much of a video editor (the latter: not that I know about - the program has many aspects I've never had to use.....). I know Audacity is the go to program for audio but I've never wanted to invest time in switching. (I think I've only paid for a software upgrade a few times over my time using it).