Classical music streaming during quarantine one-stop shop

[Bryn]

Audials - Is that with the streaming video playing in real time?

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).

I have Total Recorder too but find Audials more reliable. Quite often, when a streaming video freezes on screen, Audial continues to capture it.

[Bryn]

I have just been investigating the Saariaho Flute Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra. An example of my old bugbear of music video encoding. Only approximately 1% of the data is employed in representing the audio, which is sampled at the standard 48 kHz and an AAC data rate of 128 kbps. I do wish they would sacrifice a little of the video data to enhance the audio quality.

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For fans of Karina Canellakis, she's guest-conducting the Minnesota Orchestra this weekend. Last night's concert was live-streamed, and is available through March 7:

https://mnorch.vhx.tv/videos/live-2-25-canellakis-conducts-don-quixote

Feel free to jump ahead 29 minutes from the start of the video.

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Listening to the BRSO, Khatia Buniatishvili, and Leopold Hager (now there's an old school name; once heard him conduct Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera last millenium) now (literally), a concert from the Isarphilharmonie in Munich, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 (now) and Bruckner 7 (later):

https://www.br-klassik.de/programm/radio/ausstrahlung-2754912.html

Unfortunately, I have to duck out of listening in 20 minutes for a work call (some colleagues just have no sensitivity ), so not sure if I'll be able to catch up with the rest of it later.

[Dermot]

Listening to BRSO concert at present while nibbling Manchego cheese with a bottle of M&S Cote du Rhone Villages wine. Leopold Hager was born in 1935.
On the BR Radio app, the concert can be heard again, similar to BBC Sounds app.

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Just listened to the WQXR archived (and abridged) audio of the Carnegie Hall performance by the Galilee Chamber Orchestra:

https://www.wqxr.org/story/galilee-chamber-orchestra/

Presumably one can see the Galilee CO as a "next-generation" ensemble after the West-East Divan Orchestra, except for the Galilee CO's location compared to WEDO. Good, solid concert, although the Karim Al-Zand work Luctus Profugis was snipped from the archival audio. I didn't listen to the live relay at the time, so missed my chance to hear the Karim Al-Zand work in real time. Oh well.

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Just watched this Minnesota Orchestra video (just barely before it becomes unavailable, of course), the last for this season and the last with Osmo Vanska as music director, with music of Felix Mendelssohn and the world premiere of the Symphony by Jaakko Kuusisto (final realization of the score, after JK's passing in February, by his brother Pekka):

https://mnorch.vhx.tv/videos/live-6-3-vanska-and-keefe

If anyone wants to watch it, this is the last day of availability (my bad for not watching it earlier and bringing it to more folks' attention). While not wanting to bias anyone's preconceptions about the JK work, I quite liked it. I heard a few echoes of other composers (including the obvious one), but it stands well on its own, IMHO, and granted that I've only listened to it once as of yet. PK was in the hall for the premiere, which made sense, as he was in Chicago just the week before, so timing and minimized flights worked out. If anyone else is able to watch the video, it'll be interesting to hear the reactions of Forumites.

BTW, extended on-line article about JK from the MN Orchestra: https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/s...stos-symphony/

An audio-only radio broadcast is accessible from Minnesota Public Radio's "Your Classical MPR" page:

https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2021/09/24/minnesota-orchestra-2021-22-season

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While this thread title is dated, thought to put in a plug for this WCRB (Boston) relay of a recent Boston Symphony Orchestra concert, with Joana Mallwitz guest-conducting an American orchestra for the first time. The concert is available for a few more days (maybe five?) before the full audio is taken down:

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-13/the-bso-debuts-of-mallwitz-and-vinnitskaya

If anyone listens through all the way to the end, the announcer does a slight geographical gaffe when he misidentifies the nationality of the newspaper Der Spiegel . That aside, this concert drew several rave reviews:

https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/11/04/powerhouse-bso/

https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/11/08/bso-last-week-take-two/

https://bostonclassicalreview.com/2023/11/mallwitz-strikes-sparks-with-bso-in-impressive-american-debut/

The Boston Globe review is behind a pay firewall, but I understand that it was very positive also. Based on hearing the archived relay once, I understand the positive reviews. No doubt the Boston SO will try to get JM back as a guest conductor. I wonder now if they're also thinking ahead in terms of future music directors, in this particular respect.

PS: Part of the reason for posting here rather than in "What are you listening to now" is that said other thread looks to be devoted more to recordings rather than radio relays, as much as I've tried to plug relays from WRTI or WCRB there. So maybe it's time for me just to give up on that .