Carducci String Quartet and VOCES8 is a fascinating departure for the LIVE from London format

United KingdomUnited Kingdom LIVE from London Spring – To the New World: Carducci String Quartet (Matthew Denton, Michelle Fleming [violins], Eoin Schmidt-Martin [viola], Emma Denton [cello]) with Frederick Long (bass-baritone) and VOCES8. Livestream from the VOCES8 Centre on 28.2.2021. (CC)

Carducci String Quartet and VOCES8

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For Met Stars Live in Concert, Sonya Yoncheva brings emotional significance to all her words and phrases

GermanyGermany Met Stars Live in Concert – Sonya Yoncheva (soprano): Julien Quentin (piano). Livestream (directed by Gary Halvorson) from Schussenried Cloister, Bad Schussenried, Germany, 27.2.2021. (JPr)

Sonya Yoncheva sings in the Schussenried Cloister (c) Jürgen Hausmann

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Christian Thielemann and Camilla Nylund bring ‘The Golden Twenties’ to a resplendent end in Berlin

GermanyGermany ‘The Golden Twenties’ – Hindemith, Busoni, Richard Strauss: Camilla Nylund (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Performed at the Philharmonie Hall and streamed on the Digital Concert Hall (click here), 27.2.2021. (GT)

Christian Thielemann conducting the Berlin Philharmonic

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Vim and vigour from the Northern Chamber Orchestra as Lara Melda shows her affinity for Rossini

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bartók, Mozart, Rossini: Lara Melda (piano), Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Ward (leader/director). Livestream from the Carole Nash Hall, Manchester, 28.2.2021. (CC)

Lara Melda plays Rossini’s String Sonata No.3

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Chamber Music Northwest presents Fleur Barron and Julius Drake in Winterreise

United StatesUnited States Schubert, Winterreise: Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano). Chamber Music Northwest, Portland, Oregon, and Razumovsky Academy, London. Livestream available to 5.3.2021. (RP)

Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano) and Julius Drake (piano)

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Takács Quartet finds three ways to program in a pandemic

United StatesUnited States Haydn, Britten, Brahms: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes [violins], Richard O’Neill [viola], András Fejér [cello]). Recorded at Lone Tree Arts Center in Denver, 15-16.1.2021, exclusively for Cal Performances at Home. Available on demand 25.2.2021 through 28.4.2021. (HS)

Cal Performances at Home – Takács Quartet

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HERE presents the premiere of No One Is Forgotten, an opera for radio conceived during the pandemic

United StatesUnited States Paola Prestini & Sxip Shirey, No One Is Forgotten: Soloists, Jeffrey Zeigler (cello) / Raquel Acevedo Klein (conductor). HERE Arts Center, National Sawdust, Brooklyn. Based on the Winter Miller play of the same name, and premiered on 24.2.2021. Available for streaming through 24.4.2021. (RP)

Photo from the original production of No One Is Forgotten,
with Sarah Nina Hayon (Lali) and Renata Friedman (Beng) © Paula Court

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