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Monday, July 18, 2011

Live video webcasts from this summer's classical music festivals

Much of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is on liveweb.arte.tv.

Some of the Festival de Beaune is on also on liveweb.arte.tv.

Much of the Verbier Festival is on medici.tv.

Some of the BBC Proms will be on the iPlayer.

Six concerts from the Festival de Saint-Denis are still available on liveweb.arte.tv.

Pretty much all concerts are available on demand for a while (between a week and several months) after the event.

Please add other video webcasts of classical music festivals in the comments.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Beethoven's Friends - Consortium Classicum

Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838)
Octet for winds, strings & piano in F minor, Op. 128
Karl Czerny (1791-1857)
Notturno Brilliant for piano & ensemble in E flat major
Reichsgraf Moritz von Lichnowsky (1771-1837)
Seven variations for piano on Paisiello's "Nel cor più non mi sento"
Louis Ferdinand Prinz von Preussen (1772-1806)
Octet for piano, clarinet, 2 horns, 2 violins & 2 cellos,
Op. 12
Consortium Classicum, Dieter Klöcker
OOP

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

J.S. Bach, WTC I & II - S. Richter (live in Innsbruck, 1973)

Thought I had offered this one here before but I can't find it now so probably I didn't ...

It's another older upload that's on the cusp of disappearing unless someone wants it:

Great Legacies of Sviatoslav Richter

J. S. BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER
BWV 846-893

Recorded live on 7 & 10 August 1973 in Innsbruck (Austria)
Many thanks to DanseDePuck for the original rip!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

The Hoffnung Festival of Music (1988)

This CD set was distilled from a 1988 gala at London's Royal Festival Hall by the Philharmonia Orchestra and a multitude of guests, all performing in a satiric salute to Gerard Hoffnung and the peculiar brand of classical music satire that the cartoonist and humorist devised in the 1950s.

It contained Reizenstein’s Concerto populare, which starts out with Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto in the orchestra while the pianist is wrestling with Grieg's. Not only are the themes intertwined but imaginative additional touches abound. On to Rachmaninov 2, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto, Pop Goes the Weasel and Roll Out the Barrel, played in various styles, and back to the Tchaikovsky against the Grieg, except now piano and orchestra are transposed ...

And it included Malcolm Arnold's Grand, Grand Overture (dedicated to President Hoover), of which also the video of a recent performance is available here (illustrating the dedication more clearly than the audio-only version).