United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Franck: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, recorded live and streamed on 19.1.2021. (CS)
Broadcasts and Film
Singing in English from Rosenblatt Recitals at Home is an entertaining miscellany
United Kingdom Rosenblatt Recitals at Home in aid of Target Ovarian Cancer – From Purcell to Lerner and Loewe – Singing in English: available as audio and video streaming if you click here. (JPr)
accompanied by Malcolm Martineau
Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic start 2021 by exploring themes of life and death in literature and paintings
Germany Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky: Berlin Philharmonic / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Livestreamed in the Digital Concert Hall (click here) from the Philharmonie Berlin, 16.1.2021. (GT)
Brooklyn Art Song Society’s Schubert cycle continues at the start of 2021 with Winterreise
United States Brooklyn Art Song Society – Schubert III: Steven Eddy (baritone), Michael Brofman (piano), Brooklyn Art Song Society, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn. Livestream available from 16.1.2021. (RP)
RSNO splendidly juxtaposes Errollyn Wallen’s Mighty River and Dvořák’s New World Symphony
United Kingdom Errollyn Wallen, Wagner, Dvořák: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) / James Lowe (conductor). Livestream from the RSNO Centre, Glasgow, 15.1.2021 (GT)
PROTOTYPE screens Frost’s The Murder of Halit Yozgat – an opera in quarantine
United States PROTOTYPE – OPERA ǀ THEATRE ǀ NOW [3]: Frost & Ekman, The Murder of Halit Yozgat: co-production of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE, New York, 8-16.1.2021. (RP)
Piotr Beczala features in Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s nightmarish Rusalka in pre-pandemic Vienna
Austria Dvořák, Rusalka: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). 4.2.2020 performance at the Vienna State Opera (directed by Jasmina Eleta), streamed on 15.1.2021. (JPr)
Singing in Blaibach, Germany, Julia Bullock gets to the heart of healing music
United States Various, Julia Bullock (classical singer) and Laura Poe (piano): Recorded at Konzerthaus Blaibach, Germany, 10.12.2020, exclusively for Cal Performances, Berkeley, California. Available as a livestream from 14.1.2021-14.4.2021. (HS)
