United States Carnegie Hall Opening Night 130th Anniversary Season – A Virtual Gala Celebration: Carnegie Hall, NY. Live stream viewed on 7.10.2020. (RP)
Carnegie Hall at 130 – a digital celebration of the past, present and future
Year: 2020
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: the Elias String Quartet’s Beethoven raises spirits at Wigmore Hall
United Kingdom Beethoven: Elias String Quartet (Sara Bitlloch, Donald Grant [violins], Simone van der Giessen [viola], and Marie Bitlloch [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 6.10.2020. (CSa)
It hurts that we cannot sit in the Usher Hall to see them but at least the RSNO is performing
United Kingdom Haydn, Saint-Georges, Beethoven: Maya Iwabuchi (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Live-streamed from the RSNO Centre Glasgow, 9.10.2020. (SRT)
Easy-going Beethoven from the Tetzlaff Quartet for Cal Performances
United States Beethoven: Tetzlaff Quartet (Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath [violins], Hanna Weinmaster [viola], Tanja Tetzlaff [cello]). Recorded at b-sharp studio, Berlin, for Cal Performances, and available on demand through 6 January, 8.10.2020. (HS)
From Montréal with pleasure: Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Strauss’s Le bourgeois gentilhomme
Canada Mozart, Richard Strauss: Todd Cope (clarinet), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). 6.10.2020 performance from Montréal’s Maison symphonique, reviewed when streamed live on the OSM website. (LV)
Dame Janet Baker leads English Chamber Orchestra’s great tribute to Raymond Leppard
United Kingdom Live from London – ECO @ 60: A Tribute to Raymond Leppard: Lauren Lodge-Campbell (soprano), Bethany Horak-Hallett (mezzo), Stephanie Gonley (violin), Harry Winstanley (flute), John Roberts (oboe), Neil Brough (trumpet). English Chamber Orchestra / James Sherlock (conductor). Introduced by Dame Janet Baker. Live-streamed from Cadogan Hall, London, 7.10.2020. (CC)
‘Man of the People’: The 15th International Malcolm Arnold Festival online in October 2020
The 15th International Malcolm Arnold Festival
‘A Man of the People’
17 – 18 October 2020
Live-streamed and FREE to view
‘A Man of the People’ is the theme of this year’s Malcolm Arnold Festival; the annual celebration packed with music, films and talks on this multi-faceted composer and his music. Available online for the first time, listeners will be able to join proceedings via the website portal over 17th – 18th October 2020: for more information click here.
Revelation and luminosity from the wonderful Orchestra of the Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon
United Kingdom M. Richter, Smith Moore, Rameau (arr. D. Gordon), Copland: Orchestra of the Swan / Michael Collins (conductor). Stratford Play House, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6.10.2020. (CC)
