Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Vivacious Schumann Symphonies 1 & 3, John Eliot Gardiner, LSO

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John Eliot Gardiner's Schumann series with the London Symphony Orchestra, from the Barbican Hall, London in 2019, now available on CD...
Saturday, 25 January 2020

For the Chinese New Year, but subdued

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Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival. To many that means food, decorations, and symbols of good fortune, li...
Thursday, 23 January 2020

Magic Bagpipes ! Jaromír Weinberger : Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer

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From Saturday 25th January on Operavision , "the last operetta of the Weimar Era", Jaromír Weinberger's Spring Storm (Fr...

Things to come

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 The Future, visualized in1902
Monday, 20 January 2020

Voices of 1945 - Salonen, Vaughan Williams, Strauss and Stravinsky

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Voices of 1945 at the Royal Festival Hall, with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony no 6...
Saturday, 18 January 2020

Massive Beethoven concert from 1808 - Wiener Philharmonker, Philippe Jordan

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" Das Konzert ist ein Höhepunkt der Feierlichkeiten zum 250. Jahrestag der Geburt des Komponisten." Philippe Jordan and the W...
Thursday, 16 January 2020

Heras-Casado - Manuel de Falla El Sombrero des Tres Picos, Granada

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Manuel de Falla The Three Cornered Hat ( El Sombrero des Tres Pucos ) with Pablo Heras-Casado and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra streamed...
Saturday, 11 January 2020

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla - Raminta Šerkšnytė, Deutsche Grammophon

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From Deutsche Grammophon, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the music of Raminta Šerkšnytė with the Kremerata Baltica. In the four years sinc...
Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Don't give Agent Orange new ideas !

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Saturday, 4 January 2020

Sumptuous yet witty - Offenbach La belle Hélène

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" À l'Opéra de Lausanne, l'extravagant Michel Fau s'empare du plus populaire des opéras-bouffes de Jacques Offenbach da...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Silvesterkonzert Dresden Das Land des Lächelns Thielemann

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Live from the Semperoper, Dresden, this year's Silvesterkonzert : Franz Lehar, extracts from Das Land des Lächelns with Christian T...
Monday, 30 December 2019

New Year's broadcast links !

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Vienna Philharmoniker conducted by Andris Nelsons LIVE BBC TV2 on 1/1/2020 at 1015 and many other sources Staatskapelle Dresden cond...
Thursday, 26 December 2019

Peter Schreier dies at Christmas

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Announced a few minutes ago in Dresden, the death of Peter Schreier after a long illness, aged 84. It is particularly ironic that he died...
Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Ivory Infant Jesus, 17th century Macau

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The Infant Jesus, holding the world in his hands, carved in ivory in the 17th century.  Once ivory objects were made all over Asia and E...
Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, refugees. What was God trying to tell us ?

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The Nativity, a painting by Lu Hong nian ( 陸鴻年) 1914-1989. Summoned by Chinese angels, shepherds are arriving at the cave in which Mary...