Classical music streaming during quarantine one-stop shop

[bluestateprommer]

If anyone wants to plan ahead, some streaming selections from this side of the pond:

(1) Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, a [somewhat; program now updated] British program(me) tomorrow night at 8 PM CDT (1 AM UK time, I think), but more conveniently for you folks re-streamed at 2 PM CST (we set out clocks back 1 hour this weekend in the USA), which should then be 8 PM UK time (again, I think):

https://content.thespco.org/music/concert-library/live-stream/rebroadcast-postcards-across-atlantic

"Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne from the D Minor Partita for Solo Violin
Eunae Koh, violin

Ambrose Akinmusire: the river has its destination (world premiere, SPCO commission)
Zachary Cohen, bass

Sir William Walton: String Quartet in A Minor
Steven Copes, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Maiya Papach, viola
Julie Albers, cello"

[Update (afternoon US time, 10/31/2020): SPCO program got changed, and looks a lot less interesting now with the loss of the Wallen and Bliss works. Oh well.]

2. For Manfred Honeck fans, WRTI is airing the November 2013 debut concert of MH with "the other great Pennsylvania orchestra", i.e. The Philadelphia Orchestra, at 1 PM EST on Sunday (6 PM UK time, I think; again, feel free to double-check):

https://www.wrti.org/post/philadelphia-orchestra-concert-wrti-901-dvorak-mozart-and-j-strauss-ii

Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 (Christian Tetzlaff, violin)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

In both cases, the audio is not archived like BBC R3's iPlayer, so if you want to hear these, you have to listen in real time.

[bluestateprommer]

A droll (maybe) observation or two from the LPO's recent quarantine concert video with Thierry Fischer conducting, where he may have pushed the boundaries of stage social distancing just a bit:
* In the Thomas Larcher work Ouroboros, TF strolled to Kristina Blaumane's stand to turn the page of her solo part just at the transition into the final section, since she was clearly unable to keep playing and turn the page at the same time (wonder what would have happened had she had a tablet on her music stand). If nothing else, this shows that chivalry is not dead (just resting). TF's conducting style in the Larcher reminded me of Pierre Boulez in his batonless gestures (the one work in the concert where TF dispensed with the baton).
* After the Max Reger, instead of doing the distance bow or an elbow-bump with Pieter Schoeman, he did fist bumps with all the front desk players.

[teamsaint]

This looks interesting, Sunday night.

LSO. Playing Schinttke, Siem, and getting bums on sofas with Mozart.

I don’t know Sasha Siem’s work, but referencing Bjork never enthuses me, sad to say. ( And I might say the same for Tom Waits, whose musical charms I tend to find short lived .....)

https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2020/11/22/1949/-/online-event-schnittke-siem-mozart.html?utm_campaign=2037466_Autumn%202020%20w%2Fc%2015%20Nov&utm_medium=email&utm_source=London%20Symphony%20Orchestra&dm_i=40G6,17O4A,32HLX9,4CCPI,1

[bluestateprommer]

Starting in just about 15 minutes, the Bavarian RSO perform Mozart K. 364 and Mendelssohn 4 (*), with Oksana Lyniv on the podium:

https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-2318372.html

This looks like a quick festival of maestras (maestrae?) at the BRSO, with Karina C. set to pinch-hit for E-PS next Friday:

https://www.br-so.com/karina-canellakis-camilla-nylund-without-audience-p33748/

(*) PS: I didn't realize that the BRSO would be performing the revised, 1834 version of Mendelssohn 4.

[BBMmk2]

Agree and also comes conveniently into my Roberts bedside radio.

Now, that’s very handy!

[bluestateprommer]

Watched yesterday in real time (more or less) the BRSO quarantine concert with Karina Canellakis conducting in place of Esa-Pekka Salonen:

https://www.br-klassik.de/concert/ausstrahlung-2318400.html

Very good concert, and Camilla Nylund was a fine soloist in the Richard Strauss songs. It was, however disconcerting to see during the real-time stream the slight delay between the sound and the images. My guess is that this delay was corrected for the archival video that's available now.

(Perhaps on the TMI side, KC might have a bun in the oven.)

[teamsaint]

This looks interesting, Sunday night.

LSO. Playing Schinttke, Siem, and getting bums on sofas with Mozart.

I don’t know Sasha Siem’s work, but referencing Bjork never enthuses me, sad to say. ( And I might say the same for Tom Waits, whose musical charms I tend to find short lived .....)

https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepea...32HLX9,4CCPI,1

This was pretty good in the main. Nice introduction, and good interview with the two violin solists.the Siem work was much more enjoyable than I anticipated, and the Schnittke well worth revisiting.

[bluestateprommer]

Thread bump in advance of the LSO's video stream later today, 7 PM UK time, with MG-T conducting Weinberg's Symphony No. 2 and Shchedrin's Carmen Ballet (or Carmen-Suite):

https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepeat.detail/2020/12/06/1997/-/online-event-shchedrin-weinberg-nb-change-of-conductor-programme.html

[Edgy 2]

Thread bump in advance of the LSO's video stream later today, 7 PM UK time, with MG-T conducting Weinberg's Symphony No. 2 and Shchedrin's Carmen Ballet (or Carmen-Suite):

https://lso.co.uk/whats-on/icalrepea...programme.html

Many thanks bsp

[bluestateprommer]

Many thanks bsp

You're welcome. How was the Weinberg? Outside of the UK, folks like me were only allowed to watch the Shchedrin in real time with the LSO and MG-T, and not the Weinberg. The full concert video, with the Weinberg, will be behind a paywall via takt1 (10 Euros) on the 17th. Oh well, half a loaf, and all that. I've arrived late to the LSO videos, but will have to check them out now while I can, like the video that teamsaint mentioned.

The Shchedrin was very good, and reminded me of the one time that I've heard RS' Carmen-Ballet live, in Amsterdam in October 1997, with the Lysenko Chamber Orchestra of Kiev. It was quite something to hear the bass drum thwack echo in the Grote Zaal of the Concertgebouw then.

Other recent watching has been catching up on the Marquee TV LPO videos, with Hannu Lintu and with Thomas Sondergard, the first of the latter's 2 video gig with the LPO. I've noticed that the cameramen who work the mobile units seem (understandably) to have a big-time visual crush on principal second violinist Tania Mazzetti, given the number of solo video shots that she seems to get, although probably no more than other first-desk players.

[Bryn]

You're welcome. How was the Weinberg? Outside of the UK, folks like me were only allowed to watch the Shchedrin in real time with the LSO and MG-T, and not the Weinberg. The full concert video, with the Weinberg, will be behind a paywall via takt1 (10 Euros) on the 17th. Oh well, half a loaf, and all that. I've arrived late to the LSO videos, but will have to check them out now while I can, like the video that teamsaint mentioned.

The Shchedrin was very good, and reminded me of the one time that I've heard RS' Carmen-Ballet live, in Amsterdam in October 1997, with the Lysenko Chamber Orchestra of Kiev. It was quite something to hear the bass drum thwack echo in the Grote Zaal of the Concertgebouw then.

Other recent watching has been catching up on the Marquee TV LPO videos, with Hannu Lintu and with Thomas Sondergard, the first of the latter's 2 video gig with the LPO. I've noticed that the cameramen who work the mobile units seem (understandably) to have a big-time visual crush on principal second violinist Tania Mazzetti, given the number of solo video shots that she seems to get, although probably no more than other first-desk players.

Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuBAg-U9Rg not available to you?

[bluestateprommer]

Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuBAg-U9Rg not available to you?

Unfortunately, no. The organizers clearly did due diligence in respecting whatever publishers' rights were involved, and firewalled both of the LSO YT videos (the general link, and the link specifically directed to UK people) on the Weinberg to anyone outside the UK for today's stream. Only you folks in the UK got to see MG-T's LSO Weinberg 2 in the moment. But, you know: it's OK. "Rules is rules", and the LSO has to play by them when it comes to musical rights. Separately, I've heard MG-T's recent DG recording of Weinberg's Symphony No. 2 (very fine recording, BTW), so it's all right.

To be honest, I'm kicking myself more for missing Opera North's recent stream 2 weekends back of The Seven Deadly Sins, which I only figured out about after the video was taken down from access. Supposedly that staging is scheduled for the ROH, Covent Garden, down the line.

[Bryn]

Unfortunately, no. The organizers clearly did due diligence in respecting whatever publishers' rights were involved, and firewalled both of the LSO YT videos (the general link, and the link specifically directed to UK people) on the Weinberg to anyone outside the UK for today's stream. Only you folks in the UK got to see MG-T's LSO Weinberg 2 in the moment. But, you know: it's OK. "Rules is rules", and the LSO has to play by them when it comes to musical rights. Separately, I've heard MG-T's recent DG recording of Weinberg's Symphony No. 2 (very fine recording, BTW), so it's all right.

To be honest, I'm kicking myself more for missing Opera North's recent stream 2 weekends back of The Seven Deadly Sins, which I only figured out about after the video was taken down from access. Supposedly that staging is scheduled for the ROH, Covent Garden, down the line.

Being Opera North, would that have been in English? A great favourite of mine was another E.N.O production with Julie Covington (Lionel Friend conducting).

[Edgy 2]

You're welcome. How was the Weinberg? Outside of the UK, folks like me were only allowed to watch the Shchedrin in real time with the LSO and MG-T, and not the Weinberg. The full concert video, with the Weinberg, will be behind a paywall via takt1 (10 Euros) on the 17th. Oh well, half a loaf, and all that. I've arrived late to the LSO videos, but will have to check them out now while I can, like the video that teamsaint mentioned.

The Shchedrin was very good, and reminded me of the one time that I've heard RS' Carmen-Ballet live, in Amsterdam in October 1997, with the Lysenko Chamber Orchestra of Kiev. It was quite something to hear the bass drum thwack echo in the Grote Zaal of the Concertgebouw then.

Other recent watching has been catching up on the Marquee TV LPO videos, with Hannu Lintu and with Thomas Sondergard, the first of the latter's 2 video gig with the LPO. I've noticed that the cameramen who work the mobile units seem (understandably) to have a big-time visual crush on principal second violinist Tania Mazzetti, given the number of solo video shots that she seems to get, although probably no more than other first-desk players.

Fabulous.
I haven't checked the timings but this performance seemed longer than the DG recording,certainly no worse for that in fact even more intense.
MGT seems to have Weinberg in her blood already,she simply must record a complete cycle.

[gurnemanz]

Yet another Wigmore treat on Monday evening, for the first time with audience again after latest lockdown, and lucky they were to be there. Went out live but still there on YouTube. Lovey recital from soprano, Fatma Said, with Joseph Middleton accompanying. There's a link to a pdf of the programme with notes and texts - very useful for this varied repertoire with several less familiar items. The theme is flowers and dreams and includes Schubert's delightful longer song, Viola. All was beautifully put across and impressively rendered by heart.