Broadcasts and Film

Franz Welser-Möst and his musicians are conjuring Corigliano in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States In Focus/Episode Nine, Magical Musicians: Marc Damoulakis (percussion), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Filmed at Severance Hall, Cleveland, on 25-27.3.2021, and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)

Marc Damoulakis performs Corigliano’s Conjurer © Roger Mastroianni

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I Fagiolini’s Re-Wilding The Waste Land is the perfect way to end the LIVE from London Spring series

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom LIVE from London Spring – Re-Wilding The Waste Land: Tamsin Greig (narrator), Robert Hollingworth (director/countertenor), I Fagiolini (Anna Crookes, Rebecca Lea [sopranos], Martha McLorinan [mezzo-soprano], Matthew Long [countertenor], Greg Skidmore [baritone], Frederick Long [bass]). Streamed from the VOCES8 Centre, London, on 22.4.2021. (CC)

Tasmin Greig (narrator) with I Fagiolini

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Vienna’s intense new Parsifal breakouts from the confinement of Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production

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AustriaAustria Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Nikolay Sidorenko (actor), Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Vienna State Opera on 11.4.2021 and streamed on ARTE Concert (available until 17.7.2021 click here). (JPr)

Kirill Serebrennikov’s Parsifal Act III (final scene) (c) Michael Pöhn

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Imagination and virtuosity in Shai Wosner’s Philadelphia recital

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United StatesUnited States Various: Shai Wosner (piano). Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 8.4.2021. Reviewed from the 11.4.21 stream. (BJ)

Shai Wosner plays for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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Striking demonstration from the Oxford Philharmonic of what music can be aurally and visually

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rameau & Bach, Music and Maths: Baroque and Beyond: Marcus du Sautoy (presenter), Tamás András, Charlotte Scott, Alicja Smietana (violins), Anthony Robb (flute), Peter Facer (oboe), Christian Barraclough (trumpet), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor/harpsichord) with Mathias Gmachl (Chaldni plate artist). Streamed live from the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford via Facebook on 18.4.2021. (CD & CC)

Oxford Philharmonic perform the Second Brandenburg Concerto

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Jeremy Denk’s many-shaded approach to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier

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United StatesUnited States Bach: Jeremy Denk (piano). Recorded in the Music Room of the Rosen House, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, NY, on 10-11.3.2021, for Cal Performances at Home. Streaming from 15.4.2021 to 14.7.2021. (HS)

Jeremy Denk plays Bach for Cal Performances at Home

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