Interchanging Idioms

On May 2, Gustavo Dudamel and prominent cellist Gautier Capuçon joined the Berlin Philharmonic for the twenty-second annual Europa Konzert, celebrating the 129th anniversary of the orchestra’s founding in 1883. The program consisted of Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Performed in Vienna’s Spanische Hofreitschule, this spectacular program is available for free on medici.tv through the end of the month. Two more exciting live broadcasts form the end of medici.tv’s 2011-12 season. This weekend’s concert – Saturday, May 26, from Paris’s Cité de la Musique – sees Paul Agnew conduct the peerless early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants in madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi (his complete Book III) and by one of the Italian composer’s keenest influences, the Franco-Flemish composer Giaches de Wert (1535-96). The following Saturday, June 2, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya under...

The Colorado Symphony has moved forward with its plans to increase its digital presence and is offering a free, live online audio stream of an upcoming performance of its Masterworks Series program “Shakespeare in Music” on June 8, 2012. “The opportunity to provide a live audio stream of our concerts allows us to deliver our programming directly to listeners located anywhere in the world who can't attend a live performance, and affords us the opportunity to reach a much broader market,” stated Colorado Symphony President & CEO, Gene Sobczak. “This inaugural live stream speaks to our commitment to providing live music utilizing current media. It’s a really exciting start to what we plan to be a frequent offering of digital media.” Audiences can go to www.coloradosymphony.org and click on the “LIVE Stream” banner in order to listen in. The stream begins at 7:00 pm with pre-concert interviews and a concert start time of 7:30 pm. Live streaming is accessible from any computer...

On Sunday, April 29, Germany’s Heidelberger Frühling festival presents its first live video stream, offering a program of opera highlights from two world-class singers: baritone Thomas Hampson and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni. Accompanied by the WDR Rundfunkorchester under Massimo Zanetti, they will perform to a sold-out audience; the concert marks the last night of the 16th Heidelberger Frühling, which has – since its opening on March 23 – been showcasing internationally renowned artists in the picturesque setting of the city known as “the cradle of German Romanticism.” The April 29 live stream, sponsored by the German consulting firm MLP, will be available free of charge on www.thomashampson.com , www.lucapisaroni.com , and www.mlp-heidelberger-fruehling.de at 12 noon EDT (6 pm CET). The stream will also be available on demand until May 6. Meanwhile, New Yorkers can watch Hampson in an interview with Paula Zahn when he is profiled on THIRTEEN’s NYC-ARTS show, to be broadcast tonight...

Festival Runs from Monday, May 7- Saturday, May 12 at 7:30pm WQXR 105.9 FM and WQXR.org are proud to once again live broadcast the annual SPRING FOR MUSIC festival from Carnegie Hall. The festival’s full concert series will air on 105.9 FM in New York and audio webstream on www.wqxr.org . SPRING FOR MUSIC is an innovative festival of North American symphony and chamber orchestras, representing the best in distinctive musical programming and creativity. The 2012 season will include unique performances that demonstrate the vitality of classical music today, from rarely heard works by Varèse and Busoni to New York premieres by Paul Lansky and Avner Dorman, paired with Beethoven. The live broadcasts will be hosted by WQXR’s Elliott Forrest and will include intermission features and interviews. Each night of the festival, Forrest will be joined by a different co-host from WQXR; Q2 Music, WQXR’s online contemporary classical station; or WQXR’s sister station, WNYC. “ Spring For ...

On Tuesday, October 4 at 7pm, WQXR – the nation’s most-listened to classical radio station – will present a Metropolitan Opera Season Preview, an evening of conversation and performance at The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, the station’s innovative performance studio. The event will feature Met General Manager Peter Gelb with some of the biggest stars in opera, including Anna Netrebko and Deborah Voigt, and is the first in a season-long partnership in The Greene Space between WQXR and the Met, which will continue in December with a preview of the Met world premiere The Enchanted Island. For the event on October 4, WQXR Host Naomi Lewin will welcome the Met’s General Manager, Peter Gelb, for a lively discussion with two of the opera world’s leading divas, Anna Netrebko and Deborah Voigt. Netrebko stars in the Met’s season-opening production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Voigt sings Brünnhilde in Robert Lepage’s upcoming productions of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, the final two...

In its fifth summer,  medici.tv  is the go-to venue on the  w eb for classical music lovers to enjoy the world’s greatest artists performing at the most exclusive festivals. August offerings on medici.tv include America’s top soprano,  Renée Fleming , singing an all-Strauss program from the Salzburg Festival  with the Vienna Philharmonic under Christian Thielemann. The concert represents the first collaboration between medici.tv and the Salzburg Festival. Other August medici.tv highlights include eight concerts from France’s  Annecy Classic Festival , with such compelling artists as conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, pianists Denis Matsuev and Khatia Buniatishvili, violinist Renaud Capuçon, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and conductor Yuri Temirkanov with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In the Salzburg concert, available  August 8  on  medici.tv , Renée Fleming will perform much of the repertoire from her a...

Station to Present First Live Video Webcast of Festival on August 8 at www.wqxr.org/q2 All-Mozart Webstream, Special Performances and Live Broadcasts Offered All Month Long at www.wqxr.org Throughout the month of August, Classical 105.9 FM WQXR will celebrate MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL’s 45th season with an array of interviews, live radio broadcasts and online web exclusives. On Tuesday, August 2 at 8pm, WQXR – New York’s sole dedicated classical station – will kick off MOSTLY MOZART with WQXR hosts Jeff Spurgeon and Terrance McKnight. The opening night concert, featuring Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted by Louis Langrée, will be presented from Avery Fisher Hall and complemented by interviews with Langrée, Christian Tetzlaff (Violin), Antoine Tamestit (Viola) and Susanna Phillips (Soprano). (full broadcast schedule below) Q2, WQXR’s webstream dedicated to new music, will also take part in the festivities, offering a live video webcast for the first time in MOSTLY MOZART...

For five consecutive seasons, medici.tv has been the place for classical music lovers around the world to enjoy the spectacular array of top artists who perform at the Verbier Festival, which this summer takes place July 15 – 31. As Martin T:son Engstroem, the festival's founder and executive director, says: "Verbier is a tiny Swiss mountain village, far from any big towns, but we can connect with the global internet community and share our wonderful programs with a worldwide audience. People have followed our concerts from some mind-boggling places. Hats off to medici!" This summer, medici.tv will stream concerts again from Verbier, with more than 20 live events from the 18th annual festival; tomorrow’s festival opening-night concert features the Verbier Festival Orchestra under music director Charles Dutoit, performing Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Nelson Freire and Stravinsky’s Petrushka . The freshly redesigned medici.tv has reaped acclaim as one ...