pherank Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Berlin Philharmonic has a subscription Digital Concert Hall: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/home (It is also possible to purchase non-renewable "tickets") La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2020 Streaming Package Tune into The Baker-Baum Concert Hall from the comfort of your own home with the SummerFest 2020 Live Streaming Package! General Admission is $90, which works out to $15 per program https://ljms.org/subscribe/sf20-streaming/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 (edited) The Philharmonia Orchestra filmed a rather wonderful, physically distanced concert featuring Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Two more such concerts are coming down the pike. Edited July 22, 2020 by volcanohunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 Available Now: SF Symphony’s New Digital Series CURRENTS A symphony orchestra is the center of the community in which it sits, a place where all the musical currents of a city come together. As these currents move forward and change, we discover and change with them. What does moving forward sound like? The San Francisco Symphony presents CURRENTS, a new four-part video and podcast series, which shares the music and stories of Bay Area communities by highlighting classical music’s evolving relationship with vital influences and influencers. Curated and hosted by conductor Michael Morgan, in collaboration with musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, CURRENTS matches bespoke performances and candid, personal reflections by members of the Symphony and local musicians, personalities, and creators to reflect a synergy of perspectives. Curious patrons are encouraged to continue the cultural dialogue through CURRENTS Explore & Create, a series of video conversations and activities curated and hosted by conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Episode 1 is available now. CURRENTS: Enter the Pipa explores the dynamic role of Chinese musical culture in the Bay Area landscape, in performances of music by composer Bright Sheng with pipa virtuoso Shenshen Zhang and members of the SF Symphony. Future episodes, to be released every two weeks, will explore Jazz, Mexican, and Hip Hop cultures. https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS The first episode, Enter the Pipa, is quite professional in its presentation - recommended! https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS/EnterthePipa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dégagé Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 16 hours ago, pherank said: Available Now: SF Symphony’s New Digital Series CURRENTS A symphony orchestra is the center of the community in which it sits, a place where all the musical currents of a city come together. As these currents move forward and change, we discover and change with them. What does moving forward sound like? The San Francisco Symphony presents CURRENTS, a new four-part video and podcast series, which shares the music and stories of Bay Area communities by highlighting classical music’s evolving relationship with vital influences and influencers. Curated and hosted by conductor Michael Morgan, in collaboration with musicians of the San Francisco Symphony, CURRENTS matches bespoke performances and candid, personal reflections by members of the Symphony and local musicians, personalities, and creators to reflect a synergy of perspectives. Curious patrons are encouraged to continue the cultural dialogue through CURRENTS Explore & Create, a series of video conversations and activities curated and hosted by conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser. Episode 1 is available now. CURRENTS: Enter the Pipa explores the dynamic role of Chinese musical culture in the Bay Area landscape, in performances of music by composer Bright Sheng with pipa virtuoso Shenshen Zhang and members of the SF Symphony. Future episodes, to be released every two weeks, will explore Jazz, Mexican, and Hip Hop cultures. https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS The first episode, Enter the Pipa, is quite professional in its presentation - recommended! https://www.sfsymphony.org/CURRENTS/EnterthePipa This was, indeed, quite professional in its presentation. What an interesting series. Kudos to the San Francisco Symphony. Thank you for the recommendation, pherank! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Dégagé said: This was, indeed, quite professional in its presentation. What an interesting series. Kudos to the San Francisco Symphony. Thank you for the recommendation, pherank! Many free videos of the quarantine period are cobbled together and never really intended for public release, so it's kind of shocking how slick this presentation is. 😉 Fortunately the audio is excellent. I'm looking forward to the next episode (scheduled for August 6th). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Lincoln's Center's Mostly Mozart Festival (August 10–16, 2020) is coming soon on WQXR: http://lincolncenter.org/lincoln-center-at-home/series/mostly-mozart-festival-on-wqxr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 This NYT article describes some recent in-person performances in the time of Covid-19: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/arts/music/classical-music-jack-quartet.html "BARONE Thursday’s concert was still something of a substitute. We were seated in lawn chairs within socially distanced, spray-painted squares on top of a parking structure, with the JACK players — Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violins; John Pickford Richards, viola; Jay Campbell, cello — performing, amplified, from a platform in front. Yet there was the thrill of live music-making, and also what I’ve missed just as dearly: people. Sure, there were distracting sounds from audience members fumbling with their snacks. A man nearby was straight up reading The New York Times instead of watching. But the novelty of company made me giddy, even when someone’s cellphone went off during the opening remarks. It was familiar; we were together." I know it's just me, but I actually don't miss "audience members fumbling with their snacks" and cellphones going off during a performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted August 30, 2020 Author Share Posted August 30, 2020 This isn't streaming, this is live, baby! With a Pickup Truck and an Open Mind, the Philharmonic Returns The NY Phil Bandwagon’s pop-up concert series, the orchestra’s first public performances since March, debuted despite rain and other obstacles. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/arts/music/ny-phil-bandwagon.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Anna Fedorova and the strings (only) of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie perform Chopin's Second Piano Concerto at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 A distanced Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi perform Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, with Nicola Benedetti, and Beethoven's First. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Scottish Chamber Orchestra presented its first concert as part of a free streamed autumn season, with Nicola Benedetti playing Bruch's First Violin Concerto The orchestra promises six more concerts through October.https://www.sco.org.uk/news/season-opener-the-quilter-cheviot-benedetti-concert-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 (edited) Hilary Hahn returns from her 1 year sabbatical to a mostly shut-down music scene: Filming a message for a virtual gala involves the bathroom (see 2nd image) Edited September 25, 2020 by pherank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 (edited) A distanced Groot Omroepkoor and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest perform Brahms' Schicksalslied in Utrecht. And also Sibelius' Third Symphony. Edited September 27, 2020 by volcanohunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 (edited) Seemingly designed for Balanchine fans, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings. And Ravel's Tzigane, with violinist Niek Baar. Plus Dvořák's Romance in F. Edited September 27, 2020 by volcanohunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Wigmore Hall is livestreaming recitals daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/wigmorehall/videos For example, Gerald Finley singing French and American songs. Or Angela Hewitt playing Bach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helene Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 The Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra has been streaming, and this video in particular has a lovely performance of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings conducted by Mikail Jurowski: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 In Utrecht the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest plays Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande Suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 The Philharmonic Society is streaming new short performances (ticket price around $20). https://tickets.philharmonicsociety.org/single/EventListing.aspx Hilary Hahn is performing three times - that's how I found out about this series: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World The virtual premiere of Nico Muhly’s “Throughline,” Esa-Pekka Salonen’s first presentation as music director, is testing the limits of pandemic music-making. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/music/san-francisco-symphony-nico-muhly.html 'Orchestra performances, in the traditional sense, are rare these days. The coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of concert halls across the United States in March; few are open now, and none are operating at anything approaching capacity. The industry has been ravaged, but scattered alternatives are taking shape: small groups outdoors, and instrumentalists playing in empty or near-empty auditoriums for live or recorded streaming online. This shift, from a season of subscription concerts to online programming, is why Mr. Salonen resisted even calling the San Francisco Symphony an orchestra during a recent interview. “No matter how we spin it, we are not an orchestra,” he said. “We are a media house.”' Edited October 28, 2020 by pherank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 (edited) Sadly, the world has not been able to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in a truly fitting way. However, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has pulled concerts out of its video archive to present a digital Beethoven festival. Symphony no. 1 Symphony no. 2 Symphony no. 3 Symphony no. 4 Symphony no. 5 Symphony no. 6 Edited November 7, 2020 by volcanohunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Some Beethoven extras include the Piano Sonata no. 18 on a period instrument and the Violin Sonata no. 6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanushka Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Thanks so much for pointing us to this treasure trove, @volcanohunter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcanohunter Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @nanushka, I hadn't realized how much I was in need of a Beethoven binge! Today's additions include the documentary In Search of Beethoven, hopefully not geoblocked anywhere. Geister-Trio String Quartet no. 1 Symphony no. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanushka Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @volcanohunter, I've also been enjoying the many fine offerings (Beethoven among them) on https://www.youtube.com/user/hrSinfonieorchester/videos and https://www.youtube.com/c/Südtirolinconcert/videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pherank Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 (edited) IG post by Hilary Hahn: Curious about this photo? Attend the virtual Women in Classical Music Symposium at the @DallasSymphony Nov. 8-11! I’ll be receiving the Award of Excellence & giving the keynote speech. My Mozart with the orchestra + @marinalsop.conductor is an add-on ticket. ✨ 🎟 link in bio ✨ The whole lineup is super. I would be so thrilled if men attended this, too. Women’s issues are men’s issues are non-binary issues are human issues. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHUSRlkjZtJ/ Edited November 8, 2020 by pherank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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