Broadcasts, Musicals, & Others – Page 50 – Seen and Heard International

Tobias Kratzer’s cinéma verité style Faust for Paris Opera is an unmissable lockdown triumph

31/05/202118/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Gounod, Faust: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). Recorded (directed by Julien Condemine) at the Opéra Bastille, Paris, and broadcast on 26.3.2021. (JPr)

Tobias Kratzer’s *Faust* Act III (c) M. Rittershaus/Paris Opera

Superb pianism from Leon McCawley at Wigmore Hall

31/05/202118/04/2021 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom Schubert, Grieg, Schumann: Leon McCawley (piano). Broadcast live (19.3.2021) from the Wigmore Hall, London, and available on their YouTube Channel (click here). (RB)

Esa-Pekka Salonen harnesses 900 years of ‘Patterns’ into a compelling Minimalist program

31/05/202118/04/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States Various: Musicians of San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (curator & music director). Recorded at Davies Symphony Hall and first streamed on 15.4.2021. (HS)

Salonen conducts ‘Saltat sobrius’: Fantasy upon ‘Sederunt príncipes’

An impressive ‘New Beginning’ as the Royal Northern Sinfonia welcome Dinis Sousa

31/05/202117/04/2021 by John Quinn

United Kingdom Elgar, Haydn, Berlioz, Boulanger, Prokofiev: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Royal Northern Sinfonia / Dinis Sousa (conductor). Streamed live from Sage, Gateshead, 16.4.2021. (JQ)

Dinis Sousa conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia

Exquisitely programmed and performed hour’s worth of music from The Gesualdo Six at St Martin-in-the-Fields

31/05/202116/04/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Fresh Horizons – The Gesualdo Six: English Motets: The Gesualdo Six (Guy James, Andrew Leslie Cooper, [countertenors], Joseph Wicks, Josh Cooter [tenors], Michel Craddock [baritone], Sam Mitchell [bass], Owain Park [bass/director]). St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and streamed (click here) on 15.4.2021. (CC)

The Gesualdo Six at St Martin-in-the-Fields

Nicola Benedetti and Vasily Petrenko’s socially distanced RPO excel in Tchaikovsky and Beethoven

27/06/202516/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom RPO at Home – Tchaikovsky, Beethoven: Nicola Benedetti CBE (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Performed 3.3.2021 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, it is available (directed and edited by Ali Khan) to stream from 15.3.2021. (JPr)

Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Academy of Ancient Music’s fascinating exploration of music by Castello, Strozzi and Monteverdi

31/05/202115/04/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom In stil moderno: music by Castello, Strozzi and Monteverdi: Helen Charlston (mezzo), Academy of Ancient Music, with Bojan Čičić (violin) and Stephen Devine (harpsichord). Streamed via AAM Live (click here) from West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 14.4.2021. (CC)

Weill away your time with the Royal Opera’s thought-provoking The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel

14/05/202111/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins and Mahagonny Songspiel: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Michael Papadopoulos (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 9.4.2021. (JPr)

Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Anna I) and Jonadette Carpio (Anna II)
in *The Seven Deadly Sins* (c) Ellie Kurttz

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