MA's Free Guide to (Mostly) Free Streams, May 24-31

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Monday, May 24

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Lara Melda. Lara Melda was the winner of BBC Young Musician 2010 and has won praise for her Chopin interpretations. Today’s BBC Radio 3 lunchtime program pairs the composer’s final and most taxing sonata with two ‘study pictures’ by Rachmaninov from his Opus 33. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Sophie Rennert: 50 Shades of Love. Part of the Göttingen Handel Festival, the Austrian mezzo-soprano performs a recital of arias and cantatas by Handel in which she is accompanied by viola da gamba and harpsichord. Tickets from $13. View here until September 19.

1 pm ET: Lincoln Center presents Love From Lincoln Center. Livestreamed from the Queens Botanical Garden, the first of a series of livestreams in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian. The initiative presents special live performances for frontline workers, providing solace, respite, and brightness to those who worked so hard during this pandemic year. In this concert, a string quartet of musicians from the New York City Ballet Orchestra performs Mozart, Beethoven, and more with dancers from the New York City Ballet choreographed by Clara Miller for an audience of NewYork-Presbyterian hospital workers. View here.

1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored. The first performance of Annika Socolofsky’s to sing of sins, which weaves a detailed sonic tapestry, played by a live instrumental ensemble (flute, clarinet, cello, and piano), around electronic samples of folk-like melodies she composed, performed by Irish folksinger Iarla Ó Lionáird, and set with words from an old Celtic spiritual poem, To Lament Our Sins. The program includes an introductory conversation with Socolofsky, Ó Lionáird, and Copland House Artistic & Executive Director Michael Boriskin, and a post—performance, live Q&A. Register and view here.

1:30 pm ET: Müpa Budapest Bartók Spring presents An Evening of Bartók. A dance production inspired by the music of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and evokes the composer's person as a character who shares the stage with figures from Bartók's oeuvre such as Bluebeard, the Mandarin, and the Wooden Prince. In the first part of the concert, Gergely Madaras conducts the orchestra in an outstanding composition of the 20th century: Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. View here.

** 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Belcea Quartet. The Belcea Quartet with violist Tabea Zimmermann and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras perform Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1 in B Op. 18 and No. 2 in G Op. 36. View here.

** 2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Angela Hewitt. One of the world’s leading pianists returns to Wigmore Hall for a selection of Scarlatti’s single-movement keyboard sonatas, interspersed with six of Granados’s Twelve Spanish Dances, some of his earliest published works. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

4 pm ET: Pianist Max Lifchitz steps into summer performing Tangos from Faraway—a recital featuring music inspired by tangy rhythms and harmonies found in popular dance music. In addition to his own Pianos Silhouettes, Lifchitz performs compositions by Brian Banks, Joel Chadabe, Katherine Hoover, Robert Martin, Allen Schulz and Stefan Wolpe. Further information here; view performance here.

**7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Massenet’s Thaïs. Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos. Production by John Cox. From December 20, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Musical Heritage: Leon Fleisher. American pianist Leon Fleisher (1928-2020), despite a career curtailed by hand injury at the age of only thirty-six, leaves a legacy as a titan among pianists and indeed among all musicians. With a lineage of teachers reaching directly back to Beethoven, Fleisher commanded a position of unrivalled authority, and his impact as the most insightful and eloquent of teachers is legendary. Pianist Gloria Chien and violinist Soovin Kim reveal the life and work of one of the greatest artists of our age. View here and on demand for one week.

Tuesday, May 25

2 pm ET: Teatro alla Scala presents Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Carlo Lepore as Mustafà, Enkeleda Kamani as Elvira, Francesca Di Sauro as Zulma, Alessandro Luongo as Haly, Maxim Mironov as Lindoro, Cecilia Molinari as Isabella, and Marco Filippo Romano as Taddeo. View here and on demand.

2:15. Pm ET: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln presents Dvorák & Schubert. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln in three of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances Op.46 (Nos. 1, 2, & 8) and Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, The Great, D 944. Tickets pay what you can. View here and repeated May 27, 30 and June 1, 3 and 6 at 2:15 pm.

**2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Mozart, Poulenc & Hough. Pianist Stephen Hough is joined by Amy Harman bassoon, Ben Goldscheider horn, Julian Bliss clarinet, Olivier Stankiewicz oboe, and Thomas Hancox flute for a varied program of chamber music. Hough appears as both pianist and composer for his Trio Was mit den Tränen geschieht (What happens to the tears). Mozart considered his 1784 Quintet “to be the best thing I have written in my life,” whereas Poulenc extensively revised his Sextet six years after its first performance. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

7 pm ET: Da Capo Chamber Players presents Asian Echoes. DCCP performs Chinary Ung’s Child Song, delighting in and preserving Cambodian song in a time when it was forbidden, plus Chou Wen-chung’s Ode to Eternal Pine, a musical reflection of the Chinese terms “tian di ren—heaven, earth, and humanity”. View here and on demand.

** 7 pm ET: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presents American Sounds. The OSM performs Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor, op. 110a (arr. R. Barshai), Bach’s Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052R, and Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. With James Ehnes, violin and conductor (Bach) and Andrew Wan, violin and conductor (Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams). Tickets $20. View here until June 8.

7 pm ET: Kaufman Music Center presents Ecstatic Music: Seth Parker Woods. The cellist presents works from his solo show Difficult Grace, which draws inspiration from the Great Migration, archive research in the year 1915 of the historic newspaper The Chicago Defender, immigration, acts of translation and commentaries on the human condition, and their present and past histories. A few of the works feature roles for a speaking cellist, and all works on the program have an electronic component with film or visual artwork. Tickets $15. View here until June 1.

7 pm ET: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra presents Carmen Suite. Vaughan Williams’s treatment of an 16th-century Renaissance chant by Thomas Tallis is paired with the colorful contemporary reworking for strings and percussion of Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite. The work was initially banned in the Soviet Union for disrespecting Bizet’s opera. Tickets $10. View here until June 10.

**7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Borodin’s Prince Igor. Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, Sergey Semishkur, Ildar Abdrazakov, Mikhail Petrenko, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. From March 1, 2014. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Roulette presents Leila Adu Trio with PUBLIQuartet. One heroine’s journey through personal heartbreak to universal political truths and transfiguration. In her first post-lockdown live show, improv, composer and performer Leila Adu’s impressionistic love songs and fierce protest songs emit hope for the future. The performance combines her trio, including long-time collaborator, bassist Jon Toscano, with one of New York’s premier string quartets, PUBLIQuartet. View here. LIVE

Wednesday, May 26

8:05 am ET: London Mozart Players presents Piano Explored: Mozart & Moscheles. Howard Shelley introduces a two-concerto concert that pairs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 6, written when the composer was only 20, with Moscheles’s 1819 piano concerto, which is packed with Mozartean grace and lyrical melody. Shelley, an acclaimed exponent of repertoire which bridges the Classical and Romantic periods, will bring stylistic elegance to the LMP’s season finale. Tickets £8. View here and on demand.

12 pm ET: Kronberg Academy presents Kirill Gerstein. Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic joins the forum to discuss "Unexpected Solutions—A Consideration of Positive Outcomes and Potential Growth Arising from the Pandemic." Deborah asks “When does a crisis lead to opportunity for change? If orchestras are indeed a microcosm of the performing arts and, indeed, society, let’s explore what took place in the life of a single institution. The New York Philharmonic played without pause through the Spanish Flu epidemic, the American Civil War and two World Wars, but in the face of Covid it ground to a full halt. What has been the pathway through this crisis, and what were major points of inflection and decision?” Register here for the free Zoom seminar. LIVE

** 1:30 pm ET: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic presents Sibelius with Oramo III. Sakari Oramo’s final concerts as chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are an in-depth journey through Sibelius’s creations, including all seven symphonies in chronological order. In this concert, Oramo conducts the Symphony No. 5 and the Violin Concerto, with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist. View here and on demand.

2 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Classical (R)evolution with Rachel. Join soprano Rachel Fenlon as she explores what breaking the rules, embracing uncertainty, and thinking “outside the box” does for classical music-making. In this episode: soprano Anna Lucia Richter. View here. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Gould Piano Trio & Robert Plane. The Trio is joined by clarinettist Robert Plane for Four Fables, a work by composer Huw Watkins which was written specifically for Plane, and which these four musicians first premièred together in 2018. They pair Watkins’s work with Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, which he wrote in the winter of 1940-41 for himself to play with three fellow inmates, while a prisoner of war at Görlitz. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

** 3 pm ET: London Philharmonic presents Simple Gifts. Filmed without audience on April 22, 2021, Joshua Weilerstein conducts the London Philharmonic with violinist Alina Ibragimova in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha Overture, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite. View here for seven days.

5 pm ET: American Composers Orchestra presents Composer to Composer. Jonathan Bailey Holland talks with Alvin Singleton about his work BluesKonzert, a triple commission from 1995 by the Detroit, Houston and Kansas City symphony orchestras. Of the piece, Michael Fleming writes, “Vernacular and classical traditions have often cross-pollinated in American music, both in performance and composition. A case in point is BluesKonzert, which mixes musical bloodlines as neatly as its title does language… Singleton, who trained in both classical music and jazz, is perfectly positioned to exploit such ambiguities and crossovers.” Register and view here.

6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Jasper Quartet & Sarah Shafer. Soprano Sarah Shafer joins the Jasper Quartet for the second of two concerts featuring living women composers includes Fung’s String Quartet No. 1, Devaux’s Dust, Washington’s Middleground, Shaw’s By & By, and Higdon’s In the Shadow of Sirius. View here for 3 days. LIVE

**6:30 pm ET: MasterVoices presents Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns. Inspired by Greek myths and a 19th-century Presbyterian hymnal, Guettel’s 1998 cycle is a kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres exploring the nature of faith and longing in a secular world. In an online staging conceived by Ted Sperling, short musical films illustrate the protagonist’s exploration of Flight, Work, Love, and Faith. The fourth chapter, Faith, features the MasterVoices chorus and Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jennifer Holliday, Mykal Kilgore, Theresa McCarthy, Miles Mykkanen, Ailyn Pérez, Nicholas Phan, The Gospel Soul Children of New York; and Dancers Emma Lou DeLaney, Milan Magaña, Justine Rafael, and Katja Stoer. View here with all four chapters now available for streaming.

6:30 pm ET: Orchestra of St. Luke’s presents Coleridge-Taylor meets Chopin. The Sounds Like a Symphony series closes with a program featuring the work of English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Considered to be the first major classical composer of African descent, Coleridge-Taylor achieved success in Europe and the United States before his untimely death of pneumonia at age 37. His Clarinet Quintet pairs with the Second Piano Concerto of Chopin, performed by Jeremy Denk. Suggested donation $40. View here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s La Donna del Lago. Starring Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez, John Osborn, and Oren Gradus, conducted by Michele Mariotti. Production by Paul Curran. From March 14, 2015. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: 92nd St Y presents Stewart Goodyear plays Beethoven. Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear brings his formidable talent and deep understanding of Beethoven as he performs sonatas from the composer’s early, middle, and late periods—the early Op. 28, Pastorale, the folk-inflected Op. 79 and the groundbreaking final sonata, Op. 111. Tickets $15. View here.

8 pm ET: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents BSO Sessions: The Band’s Back. The brass section is back at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for a concert that ranges from the expansive drama of Hailstork's American Fanfare to the frivolity of Husa's Divertimento and the reminiscences of Rautavaara’s A Requiem in Our Time. Schmitt’s Fanfare from Antony and Cleopatra, Michael Daugherty’s Asclepius, and Britten’s Russian Funeral for Brass and Percussion complete the program. Tickets $10. View here and on demand.

Thursday, May 27

9:15 am CET (Switzerland)/3:15 am ET: The 15^th Concours Géza Anda competition. The renowned competition runs May 27-June 5 with all rounds streaming each day on geza-anda.ch. Approximately 40 candidates travel to Zurich to take part; the international jury will be chaired by Gerhard Oppitz. The final takes place at Tonhalle Maag in Zurich on June 5 at 7 pm CET/1 pm ET, where three contestants will play a combination of concertos by Beethoven, Bartòk, and/or Liszt. More here.

** 12 pm ET: Chicago Symphony Orchestra presents CSO Sessions Episode 20. Missy Mazzoli's Volume is a raucous and joyful work inspired by the saga of 19th-century Black Trinidadian musicians. After drumming was banned because it was used as a form of communication among enslaved people, these innovative musicians were forced to improvise their instruments by using whatever materials they could find. Also featured is Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night, in which a string sextet spins the intimate story of a couple deeply in love and the secrets they share on their walk through a cold, moonlit forest. View here.

** 12 pm ET: The Boston Pops presents From the Archives: Ella Fitzgerald. The Boston Pops and the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation share this treasure from the Symphony Hall archives. From the moment she appeared on stage in June of 1976—to a standing ovation no less—the exquisite Ella Fitzgerald had the Pops audience in the palm of her hand. After a boisterous Pops Guys and Dolls medley with the legendary Arthur Fiedler, Ella glides through tunes by Gershwin, Porter, and Ellington. One week passes from $9. View here until June 19.

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thursdays with Thomas. Join Thomas Hampson in conversation with colleagues, friends, and other major personalities of the classical music world. In this episode Thomas chats with the President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, Simon Woods. View here. LIVE

1:15 pm ET: Midtown Concerts presents BALAM Dance Theater. Baroque music and dance combine with Lisa Terry (viola de gamba) and Ryan Close (theorbo and Baroque guitar) with BALAM Dance Theatre (Carlos Fittante, choreographer, dancer, and castanets) in excerpts from the Leycester Lyra Viol manuscript featuring Four Corantos, Scottish tunes by Francesco Barsanti played by viola da gamba and theorbo, Giovanni Kaspberger’s Toccata Arpegiatta for theorbo, 1604, and the Prelude in D-minor and Fandango by Maestro Matias for Baroque guitar. View here.

1:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents LIEDBasel: Dorothea Röschmann & Wolfram Rieger. Dorothea Röschmann and Wolfram Rieger present a recital bookended by works highlighting the stories of Mignon and Mary Stuart, immersed in the language of Rilke and Goethe. Tickets from $13. View here until November 30. LIVE

2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Strauss & Wagner. Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Strauss’s Suite from Le bourgeois gentilhomme and Wagner orch. Stokowski Symphonic Synthesis of Tristan and Isolde. Recorded on May 6 at LSO St. Luke’s. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Elias String Quartet. The program opens with one of Haydn’s ‘Russian’ quartets whose opening gesture once earned it the nickname “How do you do?” Schumann’s final quartet follows, and the concert ends with violinist Donald Grant’s own arrangements of music from his homeland. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

3 pm ET: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra presents Soundbox: Resilience. Harpist Destiny Muhammad curates a SoundBox program including Ambrose Akinmusire’s Confessions to My Unborn Daughter, Mary Lou Williams’s Tell Him Not to Talk Too Long, William Grant Still’s Serenade, and Arthur Cunningham’s Lullaby for a Jazz Baby. Tickets $15. View here and on demand.

7 pm ET: Kaufman Music Center presents Lisa Bielawa: Centuries in the Hours. Vocalists and instrumentalists from Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School give a work-in-progress performance of Centuries in the Hours, an opera by Lisa Bielawa. Based on women’s diaries spanning three centuries, Bielawa and librettist Claire Solomon adapted to the global pandemic, using the isolation women have historically faced as a formal constraint. The film, by media artist Jess Medenbach, features the student cast filmed at the historic Morris-Jumel Mansion and in Merkin Hall. The stories of the women represented include an isolated teen genius (1901), a missionary (1823), a college student (1860), a Revolutionary War evacuee (1778), a Colorado housekeeper (1890s), a Philadelphia abolitionist (1860s), and a depressed Southern woman (1861), as well as the ghost of Eliza Jumel, former owner of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, played by mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin. Tickets $15. View here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Shostakovich’s The Nose. Starring Andrey Popov, Alexander Lewis, and Paulo Szot, conducted by Pavel Smelkov. Production by William Kentridge. From October 26, 2013. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Everybody Loves the Cello. Archival video recordings woven together into never-before-heard concert pairings with a Q&A at intermission with the artists. Program: Fauré’s Sicilienne for Cello and Piano, Op. 78 and Papillon for Cello and Piano, Op. 77, selections from Glière’s Ten Duos for Two Cellos, Op. 53, Golijov’s Mariel for Cello and Marimba, Rachmaninov’s "Lord, Now Lettest Thou Thy Servant Depart in Peace" arranged for Cellos from Vespers, Op. 37, and Arensky’s Quartet No. 2 in A minor for Violin, Viola, and Two Cellos, Op. 35. View here and on demand for one week.

7:30 pm ET: New York Opera Festival & Beth Morrison Projects presents Next Generation. Ten composers chosen from an pool of 117 entries in a nationwide open competition have their works featured on a program streamed from National Sawdust. These first-round finalists are part of the BMP: Next Generation initiative to discover the most exciting new opera-theatre and music-theatre compositional voices. The composers are Gabriel Fynsk, Elizabeth Gartman, Eli Greenhoe, Gabrielle Herbst, Jens Ibsen, Laura Jobin-Acosta, Maya Miro Johnson, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Timothy Peterson, and Huan Sun. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra presents Stravinsky, Janácek & Bruch. Stravinsky’s Octet opens, a testament to the genius of one of the 20th-century’s most influential composers. Janácek’s Mládí (Youth), completed in the early 1920s, shows the emergence of the Czech composer as a mature and experimental artist. Bruch’s Octet in B-flat, one of his last works, expresses the late Romanticist’s hope of renewed health for his nation and his person. View here until July 11.

8 pm ET: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents Behind the Curtain: Gaffigan conducts Dvorák. New York-native James Gaffigan conducts Dvorák's Seventh Symphony. The program opens with Michael Tilson Thomas's Street Song, a composition in three continuous parts, which the composer describes as “an interweaving of three songs.” Closing out the concert are scenes from the American countryside in the nostalgic Wood Notes by William Grant Still. Tickets $20. View here. LIVE

8 pm ET: UChicago presents SOUND/SITES: John Corkill. With drums, cymbals, chimes, bubble wrap, wood blocks, gongs, and more, Corkill takes advantage of the shapes, spaces, and surfaces of Mansueto Library and Saieh Hall to create one-of-a-kind musical experiences featuring the work of composers with deep ties to Chicago such as Seung-won Oh, Kyong Mee Choi, Tonia Ko, Marta Ptaszynska, Augusta Read Thomas, and Michael Burritt. Tickets $15. View here until May 31.

8 pm ET: St Paul Chamber Orchestra presents Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope. Inspired by sacred music, a program looking toward a brighter tomorrow after a year filled with uncertainty. Selections from Rachmaninov’s piano compositions and George Walker’s First String Quartet lead, along with the world premiere of American Indian composer Brent Michael Davids’s new work for solo flute. Haydn’s series of seven musical meditations on Christ’s final words concludes a program dedicated to the memory of George Floyd. Register and view here.

10:30 pm ET: Seattle Symphony presents Duruflé, Wagner & Barfield. Musicians of the Seattle Symphony perform an assortment of chamber works for brass and organ on the Benaroya Hall stage. The program includes selections by Gigout, Dukas, and Duruflé alongside contemporary works by Anthony DiLorenzo and Anthony Barfield. View here.

Friday, May 28

** 12 pm ET: Carnegie Hall presents Tristan und Isolde & Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The opening Prelude and Liebestod finale—featured during Carnegie Hall’s Opening Week Music Festival in 1891—encapsulates the drama of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, as performed by Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1976. Recorded three years later, Itzhak Perlman brings Tchaikovsky’s tender lyricism to life in the composer’s Violin Concerto, with The Philadelphia Orchestra and its longtime conductor Eugene Ormandy. View here until Jun 4.

12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony Orchestra presents Buskaid. The last concert featuring South Africa’s Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble includes Rameau’s “Chaconne” from the opera Dardanus, the first movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 13 in C, K. 415 with guest pianist Melvyn Tan, and Elgar’s Sospiri, Op. 70. Buskaid-trained musicians alternate as soloists in each of Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for Two Violin and the concert also includes pop and kwela music. Rosemary Nalden conducts. Tickets $5. View here for three days.

** 1:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents LIEDBasel: Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake. In the second recital of the LIEDBasel Festival, Ian Bostridge and long-time partner Julius Drake present a recital devoted to the compositions of Schubert, featuring such favorites as "Im Frühling" and "Die Forelle", as well as settings of Shakespeare's "Hark, Hark! the Lark!" and "What is Sylvia". Tickets from $13. View here until November 30. LIVE

** 2 pm ET: LA Opera presents Gallup. Two mystical beings emerge from the rugged New Mexico landscape. They come together to explore the city of Gallup—the ceremonial capital of Native America, known as Na'nízhoozhí in the Navajo language. As night falls, they melt back into the desert under a star-filled sky. Filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe's new Digital Short features music by Matthew Aucoin and poetry by Jake Skeets. Lowe's film is an unflinching yet tender portrait of the city in 2021, seen through the eyes of the supernatural. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo—core ensemble members of American Modern Opera Company—are the voices alongside AMOC musicians. View here and on demand.

2 pm ET: Medici.tv presents Letonja conducts Rachmaninov & Shostakovich. Conductor Marko Letonja leads a Russian-themed evening in Strasbourg with the Strasbourg Philharmonic in a program that includes two Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in a fiery performance by Simon Trpceski, followed by Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony. View here.

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Homage to Mozart. Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson partners with Christoph Eschenbach and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin for Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A K488. Eschenbach will join Ólafsson at the keyboard for a Mozart four-hands encore. Solo works by Debussy and Rameau complete the program. Tickets EUR 9.90. View here until May 30.

** 2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Reto Bieri. The violinist and clarinetist appear in what’s being dubbed “a dadaistic sound poem filmed in nonsense-pictures with four non-actors.” The co-Production with Hellerau, European Centre for the Arts, Dresdner Musikfestspiele und Elbphilharmonie includes music by George Brecht, Claude Vivier, Giuseppe Giamberti, Milhaud, PatKop, Richard Strauss, Otto Matthäus Zykan, Martinu, Leo Dick and Bach. View here.

** 2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Fabio Luisi conducts Mahler. Fabio Luisi leads the Concertgebouworkest in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and the Kindertotenlieder, featuring baritone Peter Mattei. The young Dutch composer Rick van Veldhuizen has written a newly commissioned composition for the orchestra. View here.

2 pm ET: Opera Factory Freiburg presents Steve Reich Masterworks. Klaus Simon conducts the Holst Sinfonietta in an all-Steve Reich program including Know what is above you, Sextet, City Life, and Tehillim. Tickets Euro 5. View here.

** 2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s program will include works by Bach and Beethoven. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

** 5 pm ET: Vocal Arts DC presents The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center. Inspired by the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI, the concert explores themes of longing, loss, love, and the search for peace in the wake of catastrophe. Musical selections range from Schubert's “Der Wanderer” to Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel, as well as popular tunes and art songs by composers and poets who died in the war. The concert is performed by Grammy Award winning baritone, John Brancy, and pianist Peter Dugan in a 2018 sold out live performance from the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater. View here and also May 30 at 10 am and May 31 at 7 am and 2 pm.

6 pm ET: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents Midori. A visionary artist, activist, and educator whose unique career has transcended traditional boundaries, Midori has transfixed audiences around the world for over 35 years. Her first PCMS recital in a decade also features Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute in a program of works by Dvorák, Debussy, and Brahms. View here for 3 days. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Giordano’s Fedora. Starring Mirella Freni, Ainhoa Arteta, Plácido Domingo, Dwayne Croft, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, conducted by Roberto Abbado. Production by Beppe De Tomasi. From April 26, 1997. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Piffaro presents Fuguing from Obrecht to Bach. A program celebrating the fugue, a form that still engages composers today. Piffaro is joined by harpsichord, baroque cello, and Kleine Kammermusik, a baroque chamber ensemble showcasing the baroque winds that were the direct descendants of Piffaro’s renaissance instruments, to recreate a multitude of polyphonic textures, emotional affects and sonic textures. Tickets $15. View here.

8:30 pm ET: Houston Grand Opera presents Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel. HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers conducts Humperdinck’s classic. This new version created for the digital studio—led by Summers and director Lileana Blain-Cruz—will allow audiences to experience the work with live performances and original animated settings by award-winning visual artist Hannah Wasileski. With Sun-Ly Pierce, Raven McMillon, Richard Trey Smagur, Lindsay Kate Brown, Blake Denson, and Elena Villalón. Register and view here.

< id="minnesota">** 9 pm ET: Minnesota Orchestra presents Remembrance & Reflection. In memory of George Floyd and all victims of racial violence and hate, Music Director Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra and violinist Karen Gomyo share music together in mourning, with compassion and hope. The program comprises Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, Saint-Georges’s Violin Concerto in D, Opus 3, No. 1, Simon’s An Elegy: A Cry From the Grave, the “Adagietto” from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. View here. LIVE

** 10 pm ET: Philharmonic Society presents Archetypes. In an exploration of global music traditions, legendary guitarist Sergio Assad, along with Clarice Assad’s vocals and the rhythms of Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion, will take a musical journey exploring universal themes found in stories, legends, and myths throughout the world. Tickets $20. View here. LIVE

Saturday, May 29

** 9 am ET: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic presents Sibelius with Oramo IV. Sakari Oramo’s final concerts as chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are an in-depth journey through Sibelius’s creations, including all seven symphonies in chronological order. In this concert, Oramo conducts Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 as well as Two pieces for cello and orchestra with Johannes Rostamo as the soloist. View here and on demand.

** 12 pm ET: Malmö Opera presents Philip Glass’s Circus Days and Nights. The world premiere of a new opera by composer Philip Glass and librettists David Henry Hwang and circus director Tilde Björfors, based on a collection of poems by American poet Robert Lax. Co-produced by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera, the collaboration will feature a unique, never before seen fusion of circus and opera. Tickets $12. View here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. Dealing with the jealousies, ambitions and love affairs during the reign of the emperor Titus, La clemenza di Tito has eerie parallels with our own era in Bergen National Opera's new production. With its excellent young all-Norwegian cast, Mozart's last opera asks the deeply relevant question: who is the leader we want in times of crisis? Edward Gardner conducts. View here for six months. LIVE

1 pm ET: Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall presents Rattle conducts Ginastera & Britten. Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes and Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra offer opportunities to showcase the tonal splendor of different instruments. Principal horn Stefan Dohr and tenor Allan Clayton are the soloists in Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. Tickets EUR 9.90. View here. LIVE

1:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents LIEDBasel: Robert Koller & Jürg Henneberger. The two specialists in contemporary music present a song program built around the world premiere of Ein Geist geht um by Cécile Marti after poems by Armin Senser, and also featuring songs by Heinz Holliger (Swiss premiere), Mahler and Mussorgsky. Tickets from $13. View here until November 30. LIVE

** 2 pm ET: Bergen International Festival presents Ragnhild Hemsing & Trondheim Soloists. Ragnhild Hemsing and the Trondheim Soloists visit Håkonshallen with Edvard Grieg's music performed on Hardanger fiddle, violin and string orchestra. For this concert in Håkonshallen Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 (Op. 46 and 55) have for the first time been arranged specifically for string orchestra with solo Hardanger fiddle and violin. Tickets $30. View here.

2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Philharmonic State Orchestra, Vogt & Nagano. Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg with tenor Klaus Florian Vogt in Schubert’s Sechs Deutsche D 820, Mahler’s Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 in D, D 200. View here.

** 2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Ensemble Marsyas. Soprano Louise Alder and countertenor Christopher Lowrey join the ensemble for an all-Handel program bringing together two sonatas and a selection of duets, culminating in the 1708 cantata Amarilli Vezzosa. It tells the story of Daliso and Amaryllis, a shepherd and shepherdess; Amaryllis pledged her love to him but has changed her mind, and Daliso is unhappy at the rejection. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Capriccio. Starring Renée Fleming, Sarah Connolly, Joseph Kaiser, Russell Braun, Morten Frank Larsen, and Peter Rose, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Production by John Cox. From April 23, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

** 7:30 pm Tesla Quartet presents A Bartók Journey Part IV. The Tesla Quartet journeys through the six string quartets of Béla Bartók. This week, a complete performance of String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91. For a deeper dive, May 26 features a talk by Guest Speaker: Nicholas Kitchen, first violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet, and there is a Virtual Open Rehearsal on May 28 at 1 pm ET. Register for complete series and view here.

7:30 pm ET: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presents Hearts & Voices Soar. Juanjo Mena conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with soprano Joélle Harvey and tenor Paul Appleby in the “Adagietto” from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Britten’s Les Illuminations, selected songs. By Schubert, selections from Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Group 2, H. 98, and selections from Reena Ismail’s I Rise: Women in Song. View here and repeated May 30 at 2:30 pm.

8 pm ET: Festival Casals presents Opening Concert. A live broadcast from Pablo Casals Symphony Hall with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor and solo violinist Pinchas Zukerman. The program comprises Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture and Violin Concerto No. 3 and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, Italian. View here until Jun 6. LIVE

9 pm ET: San Antonio Symphony presents Classical Concert VIII. Sebastian Lang-Lessing conducts Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in G minor. Tickets $21. View here.

9 pm ET: Houston Symphony presents Find Your Dream. The Houston Symphony POPS Season concludes with songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Broadway duo Santino and Jessica Fontana perform favorites from The Sound of Music, Carousel, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and more, with full-orchestra accompaniment by Steven Reineke and the Symphony. Tickets $20. View here. LIVE

Sunday, May 30

** 12 pm ET: Bayerische Staatsoper presents Reimann’s Lear. Conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste, director: Christoph Marthaler. With Christian Gerhaher (König Lear), Georg Nigl (Graf von Gloster), Andrew Watts (Edgar), Matthias Klink (Edmund), Angela Denoke (Goneril), Ausrine Stundyte (Regan), Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Cordelia), Graham Valentine (Fool), Bayerisches Staatsorchester, and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper. View here for 30 days.

2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Sete Lágrimas. Ensemble Sete Lágrimas (Filipe Faria and Sérgio Peixoto vocals, Sofia Diniz viola da gamba, Tiago Matias theorbo, baroque guitar, and Juan de la Fuente Alcón percussion) perform a program entitled Diaspora, a musical journey from Italy to Brazil in the footsteps of Magellan. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s program will include works by Mozart. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

3 pm ET: Academy of Ancient Music presents Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Rachel Podger is the violin soloist as Richard Egarr directs the AAM from the harpsichord in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 1 and Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 2, and Grimani’s “Sinfonia” from Pallade e Marte. Tickets £12.50. View here and on demand.

3:30 pm ET: American Pianists Association presents 2021 American Pianists Awards. Due to the ongoing health crisis, finalists have recorded individual, non-public, adjudicated recitals. This week, Sahun Sam Hong plays Beethoven’s Eroica Variations, Op 35, Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1, Ravel’s Sonatine, Luura Kaminsky’s Alluvion (world premiere, APA commission), and Hindemith’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat. View here.

4 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Concertos from the Inside: Week 21: Sibelius. In a 24-part series, Rachel Barton Pine performs the entire solo violin part of the greatest violin concertos unaccompanied and shares her perspective on each, explaining how she prepares and how her performance connects to the work’s historical and musical context. The series is geared towards career violinists, advanced students, violin teachers, and violin aficionados. Tickets $20. Register and view here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Le Comte Ory. Starring Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Stéphane Degout, and Michele Pertusi, conducted by Maurizio Benini. Production by Bartlett Sher. From April 9, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Festival Casals presents Mark Kosower & Evan Solomon. Cellist Mark Kosower and pianist Evan Solomon play Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007, Tchaikovsky’s Andante cantabile for string quartet, Op. 11 (arr. Fitzenhagen), Ravel’s Pièce en forme de habanera (arr. Bazelaire), Ginastera’s Puneña No. 2, Homage a Paul Sacher for solo cello, Op. 45, and Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 102. View here and on demand.

8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Cello Series. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk perform Brahms’s two Cello Sonatas,  undoubted highlights of the Romantic cello repertoire, and Four Serious Songs with cello replacing the bass. First Broadcast earlier today. Tickets $12. View here until June 1.

Monday, May 31

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s Sibylline Prophecies Motets. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

10 am ET: Medici.tv presents Puccini’s Le Villi. When Roberto is called to Mainz, his wife Anna's dreams foretell his demise. Seasons pass and Roberto has fallen under a siren's enchantment. The grief-stricken Anna dies in despair—which spurs her father, Guglielmo, to seek the help of the Villi, forest fairies who force unfaithful lovers to dance themselves to death. Francesco Saponaro offers a refined and elegant production of Puccini's first staged work, which grants free rein to the emotive choices of singers Maria Teresa Leva, Leonardo Caimi, and Elia Fabbian. Marco Angius conducts. Subscribe to view here. LIVE

2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140, Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139, Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s La bonne chanson, presented in the composer’s rarely performed arrangement for voice, piano and string quintet. The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective encloses this work with Florence Price’s Piano Quintet, with its third movement’s Juba dance structure, and Mendelssohn’s 1824 Sextet in D. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

5 pm ET: Spoleto Festival presents Chamber Music Program II. Geoff Nuttall hosts highlights of the festival’s daily chamber music program including the premiere of Jessica Meyer’s She Sailed the Savage Seas performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the third movement of Ludwig Thuille’s Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 20 with pianist Gilles Vonsattel. Meyer composed her new work for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, celebrating their 25th season at Spoleto Festival USA. The piece was inspired by Anne Bonny, one of few female pirates who was said to have lived in Charleston in the early 17th century. View here until June 18.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Puccini’s Turandot. Starring Christine Goerke, Eleonora Buratto, Yusif Eyvazov, and James Morris, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From October 12, 2019. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Inside Chamber Music: Haydn's Trio in E. Bruce Adolphe is joined by CMS artists to examine Haydn's Trio in E for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:28. Composed six years after Mozart's death, this piano trio shows Haydn as a mature master of great subtlety. Tickets $15. View here and on demand for one week.

8 pm ET: Festival Casals presents Trío Sanromá. Trío Sanromá (Francisco Cabán, violin, Luis Miguel Rojas, cello, and Diana Figueroa, piano) play Quiñones’s Folié, Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 11, Gassenhauer, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 49, and Del Águila’s Tango Trio. View here and on demand.

Artists and Organizations Offering Free Content

Academy of Ancient Music
The most listened-to period instrument ensemble, directed by Richard Egarr, has made a number of streams available on its website. Guest artists include Louise Alder, soprano, Nicola Benedetti, violin, Mary Bevan, soprano, David Blackadder, trumpet, Iestyn Davies, countertenor, Tim Mead, countertenor, Christopher Purvis, bass, and Tenebrae, directed by Nigel Short. Explore here.

Afro-Diasporic Opera Forum
The International Contemporary Ensemble, in partnership with Opera Omaha and FringeArts, presents the Afro-Diasporic Opera Forum online from May 26-28, 2021. The Forum is a free, three-day series of online events to celebrate, share, and reflect on four operas that have had a major impact on the organization and collaborators. They include: George Lewis’s Afterword (2015), Tyshawn Sorey’s Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine Baker (2016), Pauline Oliveros and IONE’s The Nubian Word for Flowers: A Phantom Opera (2017), and a new work-in-development, Awakening (to be premiered in 2022), by Courtney Bryan with Charlotte Brathwaite, Sharan Strange, Cauleen Smith, and Helga Davis. In order to cultivate awareness among presenters, producers, ensembles, and audiences, the Ensemble will bring these works into conversation with one another and with leading scholars in the field. Renowned musicologist Dr. Naomi André is the lead scholar and conversation partner for this three-day series featuring presenters and panelists such as Julia Bullock, IONE, George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. Explore here.

Alternative Classical
Humans of Classical Music is a video series in which musicians, actors, comedians, and podcasters from around the world recommend their favorite piece of classical music in one minute. A new video will go live every Thursday during 2021, starting on February 4, accompanied with a link on Spotify. Each video is free of musical jargon and is suitable for anyone interested in exploring the world of classical music. The list includes countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson, Principal Conductor of Glyndebourne on Tour Ben Glassberg-Frost, Chief Executive of Manchester Collective Adam Szabo, and composers Anna Clyne, Gabriel Prokofiev, and Missy Mazzoli. Explore here.

American Opera Project
First Glimpse is a video album of 20 songs created during the first year of AOP’s 2019-21 fellowship program, Composers & the Voice. Originally intended as a live concert, the videos will be released every Friday beginning October 23 and for the following six weeks. The composers are Alaina Ferris, Matt Frey, Michael Lanci, Mary Prescott, Jessica Rudman and Tony Solitro, with librettists Amanda Hollander and Jonathan Douglass Turner. Videos will be free for one week following their release, after which they will be available to rent or purchase, individually or as a full set through AOP's Website. Explore here.

American Symphony Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra releases weekly recordings from its archives with content alternating between live video recordings of SummerScape operas and audio recordings from previous ASO concerts. Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe aus Danae, and Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane, all conducted by Leon Botstein, are all highly recommended and available now.

Apollo’s Fire: Music for the Soul
The Cleveland-based baroque orchestra founded by Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell is offering a series of video streams entitled “Music for the Soul.” New episodes are posted here.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
BSO Sessions continues to bring the stories of BSO musicians, conductors, and collaborators to life through a documentary-style narrative. Real stories are paired with powerful music, including the elevation of unheard voices in classical music. Episodes premiere weekly on Wednesdays at 8 pm ET and are available through June 2021. Explore here.

Bard SummerScape & Fisher Center
Archival works highlight Bard’s wealth and breadth of programming, including performances from its SummerScape Opera and BMF archives. Recent include Bard SummerScape’s 2011 production of Strauss’s rarely performed Die Liebe der Danae and last year’s Daniel Fish directed staging of Michael Gordon’s Acquanetta. More details here.

Bergen Philharmonic
Bergen’s outstanding orchestra enjoys national status in Norway with a history dating back to 1765. Its free streaming service was established as part of 250-year anniversary in 2015 and offers a fine selection of works from its concert series in Grieghallen, Bergen. Conductors include Edward Gardner, James Gaffigan, Thierry Fischer, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Christian Zacharias with soloists including Leif Ove Andsnes, Lise Davidsen, Truls Mørk, Mari Eriksmoen, and Freddy Kempf. Well worth exploring here.

Chatham Baroque
Chatham Baroque is releasing high-quality monthly videos featuring leading baroque performers including gambist Jaap ter Linden, lutenists Nigel North and Stephen Stubbs, and countertenor Reginald Mobley. Once posted, videos are available on demand through June 30, 2021. Each program includes artist interviews and are available for as little as $18 per program. Explore here.

Cliburn Kids
Cliburn Kids is a growing collection of entertaining 7- to 10-minute videos designed to introduce children to the fun of classical music. How does music paint pictures, tell stories, express feelings? Host Buddy Bray and guest artists use individual pieces to explore topics that delve into the way music is organized and structured, counting and rhythm, expressive elements, and sometimes just lighthearted enjoyment. Programs are geared towards elementary-aged children, and activities are provided for each episode that are perfect for in-classroom or at-home studies. New episodes and lesson plans are released every Tuesday. Explore here.

Days & Nights Festival
The annual multidisciplinary Days and Nights Festival—which since 2011 has taken place in and around Big Sur, California and has brought together luminaries and pioneers in fields including music, dance, theater, literature, film and the sciences—launches its premiere streaming portal featuring exclusive films of a selection of its landmark performances and events. Films slated for release, from February to May 2021, includes contributions by such wide-ranging figures as JoAnne Akalaitis, Tibetan artist Tenzin Choegyal, Danny Elfman, Molissa Fenley, María Irene Fornés, Allen Ginsberg, Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Jerry Quickley, and Glass himself. Featured performers and ensembles include Dennis Russell Davies, Ira Glass, Matt Haimovitz, Tara Hugo, Lavinia Meijer, Maki Namekawa, Gregory Purnhagen, Third Coast Percussion, Opera Parallèle, and Glass and his Philip Glass Ensemble. Explore here.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has made its webcast archive available for free. The collection features 200+ works going back three years, and highlights include Leonard Slatkin conducting John Luther Adams’s climate change-inspired Become Ocean from 2019, several world premieres, and a host of bite-sized encores. Explore here.

Deutsche Grammophon Yellow Lounge
The German classical music giant is streaming Yellow Lounge broadcasts from its archives. Recent additions include clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer, pianists Alice Sara Ott and Chihiro Yamanaka, and cellist Mischa Maisky. Performances are broadcast in rotation, one video at a time, adding a new performance every few days. DG communicates the start of each new performance by newsletter at the start of each week. To keep updated sign up here.

English Symphony Orchestra
The English Symphony Orchestra’s ESO Digital is an expanding digital archive of music, performed by English Symphony Orchestra and its partners, that you are unlikely to hear anywhere else. Access is free with a monthly donation; however Musical America readers can get a free trial of one week when setting up a new donation by using the coupon code MusicalAmerica2021. Register here.

Finnish National Opera
Finnish National Opera presents Stage24, a series of streamed archived performances on its website, which are then available for the next six months. Recent content includes a staged version of Sibelius’s Kullervo, Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Caspar Holten’s staging of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer with Camilla Nylund, and Christoff Loy’s Tosca. An excellent company and some interesting and original work worth investigating. Explore here.

Gina Bachauer Piano Competitions
Postponed from 2020, the Solo Rounds will now be conducted through video recordings, presented online. Twenty-three Junior Competitors ages 11-14 and twenty-one Young Artists Competitors ages 15-18 will continue their quest for medals and their share of $62,000 in cash prizes.  Hailing from 14 countries, these young international pianists will each vie for the title of the next Gina Bachauer Gold Medalist. Chosen from an original pool of 220 applicants, 113 pianists performed in the Preliminary Rounds, with each competitor presenting a 30-minute program in one of five international cities: Hamburg, Moscow, Shanghai, New York City, and Salt Lake City. The Gina Bachauer Junior International Piano Competition will take place June 13-19 and the Gina Bachauer Young Artists International Piano Competition will take place June 20-26. Explore here.

Handel and Haydn Society
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society has created the H+H Listening Room where you can hear and watch H+H performances including Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas filmed at New York’s Met Museum. There are also more than a dozen videos of musicians performing from their homes, a special video of principal flutist Emi Ferguson teaching people how to make their own baroque flute, and a new podcast called “Tuning In”. In the first episode Principal Cellist Guy Fishman interviews Artistic Director Harry Christophers about Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Explore here.

Kennedy Center: Arts Across America: Spring
Arts across America continues this Spring with a focus on cultural leadership and art as a catalyst for public healing, decolonization, and genuine global change. With artistic contributions from the Black Trans theater community, programs about Sacrifice Zones and the environment, the fight for women’s rights in the Latinx community, and discussions of the prisons and detention center system, and about the importance of Indigenous food and health. Hosted by sage artistic minds, these performances and conversations strive to bring audiences together to heal our country, communities, and selves. Explore here and other Kennedy Center regular online releases via their digital stage here.

La Scala/RAI
Italy’s RAI presents five productions from La Scala Milan including the world premiere of Kurtág’s Fin de Partie, Daniel Barenboim conducting Götterdämmerung, Lisette Oropesa in Verdi’s I Masnadieri, Montedervi’s Orfeo conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini, and Les Vêpres Siciliennes conducted by Daniele Gatti. A wide range of concerts are also available. Explore and register here.

Les Arts Florissants
Les Arts Florissants’s annual Festival in Thiré, France included a series of 10- to 15-minute “Meditation” concerts recorded earlier this summer. Now available to enjoy online, the Meditations include performances by students of Juilliard’s Historical Performance program in the spirit of their annual participation in the Festival. View here.

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center Passport to the Arts
A variety of virtual classes, performances, and bonus content designed for children, teens and adults with disabilities and their families. Offerings include programs with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York City Ballet, the New York Philharmonic, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Families can attend dance, music or drama classes, watch exclusive performances, check out behind-the-scenes content, and even meet performers—all from their homes. Families will receive pre-visit materials, including social narratives, photos, and links before each program. All programs take place via Zoom. Register here.

Look + Listen Festival
The free annual festival returns for its 19th season in May 2021 with an "At Home Edition" designed to bring art directly into audiences' homes, in both digital and tangible forms. Along with online performances, audiences will be treated to limited-edition physical artworks, delivered by mail (to U.S. residents only). On three Saturdays—May 8, 15, and 29 —sound, visual, and literature artists Mendi + Keith Obadike will play LULL: a sleep temple, an eight-hour sonic experience incorporating field recordings, analog synths, and acoustic instruments intended to create a field of sound for dreaming. The first 100 registrants will be sent a small "dream kit" containing a booklet, candle, and sachet. On Saturday, May 22, Berlin-based composer/performer/instrument builder Viola Yip joins forces with composer/vocalist/sound artist Ken Ueno, a professor at UC Berkeley, for the world premiere of an hourlong piece performed synchronously by the two artists from their home locations. thingNY's Dear Nancine consists of mailed gifts to experience alone, and/or with your household or close friends. The work centers around cartography, land rights, colonization, and routine. Packages will arrive to the first 100 registrants on Saturday, May 1. And Audra Wolowiec has created Semaphore, a printed booklet exploring modes of communication across long distances, mailed to all festival registrants in the US. Semaphore will serve simultaneously as a festival program, conceptual art piece, and activity book. Register and explore here.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
LACO AT HOME offers streaming and on demand performances, including a full showing of the orchestra’s critically acclaimed West Coast premiere of Dark with Excessive Bright for double bass and strings by LACO Artist-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli. View streaming here and on demand here.

Los Angeles Master Chorale
Videos recorded as part of the “Offstage with the Los Angeles Master Chorale” series from April 24 to June 19, 2020 included interviews conducted by Artistic Director Grant Gershon and Associate Conductor Jenny Wong with notable performers—including special guests Reena Esmail, Morten Lauridsen, Anna Schubert, Peter Sellars, Derrick Spiva—as well as Master Chorale singers. Available on demand here.

Mark Morris Dance Group 40th Anniversary Digital Season
MMDG continues to celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a new archival collection featuring three excerpts from Mark Morris dances?I Don’t Want to Love, Rhymes With Silver, and V, and one full-length work, Rock of Ages, selected by veteran MMDG company members Joe Bowie and Lauren Grant. Viewers are also able to watch the full performances of the excerpted works on demand. Each work is preceded by video introductions by Joe Bowie and Lauren Grant. Explore here.

Metropolitan Opera Live In Schools
The Metropolitan Opera’s HD Live in Schools program has launched a new series for the 2020–21 school year, creating cross-disciplinary educational opportunities across the country. For the 2020–21 school year, students and teachers will receive free subscriptions to the Met Opera on Demand service, with a catalogue of more than 700 Live in HD presentations, classic telecasts, and radio broadcasts. Ten operas have been selected for the HD Live in Schools program, and will be presented in five educational units, with two thematically paired operas per unit. The series opens with Beethoven’s Fidelio and Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment (September 28–October 16), both of which explore the intersection of music and politics. The Met will continue to offer teachers HD Live in Schools Educator Guides and access to Google Classroom materials that can be adapted for virtual learning lesson plans. In addition, the Met’s National Educators Conference will be hosted on a virtual platform this year and take place on five Saturdays throughout the 2020–21 school year. Two conferences, scheduled for October 10, 2020, and October 17, 2020, will also feature live conversations with Met artists. More information here.

Minnesota Orchestra
Minnesota Orchestra at Home shares video, audio, and educational materials through the categories of Watch, Listen and Learn, including videos from the orchestra’s archives and newly created “mini-concerts” directly from the homes of Orchestra musicians. Explore and view here.

National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival, Volume One
With more than 65 events, featuring over 100 artists premiering in a four-month span, National Sawdust Digital Discovery Festival: Volume One was a bright spot in NYC's post-COVID live music world. Featuring post-COVID performances from Robert Wilson, Julian Lage, Tyondai Braxton, Emel Mathlouthi, Matthew Whitaker, Dan Tepfer, Ashley Bathgate, Emily Wells, Brooklyn Rider, Joel Ross, Conrad Tao, Andrew Yee, and Lucy Dhegrae, and recently recorded Masterclasses with Tania León, Ted Hearne, Vijay Iyer, Jamie Barton, Lawrence Brownlee, Trimpin, and Lara St. John. Archival performances include David Byrne, Lara Downes and Rhiannon Giddens, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Explore here.

Next Festival of Emerging Artists
The 2021 Virtual Festival will take place June 8 – July 1, 2021. 25 festival fellows—young musicians, composers, and choreographers, ages 20-30—will attend the full festival of masterclasses, workshops, and virtual collaborations and select events will be free for the general public to attend. May 25 is the deadline for fellow applications, which are available at www.next-fest.org. Festival events will be held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and the schedule will be organized into the following themes: Business & Entrepreneurship (June 8-10), Social Justice & Activism (June 15-17), Artistry & Musicality (June 22-24), and Multidisciplinary Collaboration (June 29-July 1). Guest artists include cellist Seth Parker Woods (University of Chicago); composer Gabriela Lena Frank (Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Arts Academy); composer/violist Jessica Meyer; Aizuri Quartet; double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku (Chineke!); violinist David Radzynski (Concertmaster, Israel Philharmonic); hornist/composer Jeff Scott (Imani Winds, Oberlin Conservatory); composer Derek Bermel (American Composers Orchestra); conductor/composer Peter Askim (Next Festival’s Artistic Director); and more. Explore here.

New World Symphony
The New World Symphony presents a web-based series called NWS Archive+. Michael Tilson Thomas moderates discussions with NWS Fellows, alumni, guest artists, and visiting faculty about archived recordings. Performances will be available here. NWS Fellows also play live, informal chamber music concerts from their homes in Miami Beach and broadcast via Facebook Live. In addition, the NWS online archive contains master classes, tutorials and town halls, which can be found here. Finally, for the past 10 years, the Fellows have performed one-hour concerts for local school children. These concerts and preparatory material will be available free to students and parents. NWS Educational concerts can be found here.

New York Opera Fest
The New York Opera Fest celebrates its sixth season with both virtual and in-person performances by 20+ local, New York City-based opera companies. Presented by the New York Opera Alliance, with support from OPERA America, this annual festival runs for two months May-June 2021 starting with a special kick-off event April 29th. For a complete list of events, explore here.

Opera Australia
OA | TV: Opera Australia on Demand is the Sydney-based company’s new digital space. Alongside the world’s largest collection of Dame Joan Sutherland on video, OA will offer exclusive content from the OA back catalogue, productions from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, and a new series of chat show-style interviews conducted by AD Lyddon Terracini. The first posted full show is Sutherland in The Merry Widow, and the fileted aria’s in the section labelled “The Best of Dame Joan Sutherland” are even better. View here.

Opéra National de Paris
The Palais Garnier and Bastille Opera have made their digital stage, “The 3e Scène,” free. The platform is a pure place of artistic adventure and exploration, giving free rein to photographers, filmmakers, writers, illustrators, visual artists, composers, and choreographers to create original works. Visit here. Some of Opéra National de Paris’s productions are accessible on the company’s Facebook Page. In addition, Octave, the Paris Opera’s online magazine, is posting articles, videos, and interviews here.

Opera North
One of Britain’s most respected smaller opera companies, Opera North has put its acclaimed semi-staged concerts of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle online. “Beg, borrow, or be like Wotan and steal a ticket for this show,” said the UK’s Times of Das Rheingold. “You’d be lucky to hear as good at Bayreuth,” said The Telegraph of Die Walküre. Richard Farnes proves a seriously impressive Wagner conductor. Watch here.

OperaVision
OperaVision offers livestreams of operas available for free and online for up to six months. Previous offerings include Barrie Kosky’s visually spectacular Moses und Aron, David McVicar’s superb Die Entführung aus dem Serail from Glyndebourne, and Deborah Warner’s thoughtful Death in Venice for English National Opera. View upcoming and past content here.

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: Beethoven at Home
RPO brought Beethoven to living rooms in December playing all nine symphonies. The musicians performed the first eight symphonies in small chamber ensembles varying from a string sextet to a 15-strong brass ensemble. The Grand Finale took place on New Year’s Eve: Beethoven’s Ninth, played by the full orchestra with chorus and soloists. View here.

Orli Shaham Bach Yard Playdates
Pianist Orli Shaham brings her acclaimed interactive concert series for kids to the internet. Bach Yard Playdates introduces musical concepts, instruments, and the experience of concert-going to a global audience of children and their families. A number of 10-minute episodes are already available for on-demand streaming. Programs and performances range from Bach’s Two-Part Invention to Steve Reich’s Clapping Music. Explore here.

Trinity Wall Street
New York’s Trinity Church Wall Street introduces daily weekday “Comfort at One” (1 pm ET) streaming performances on Facebook with full videos posted here. Tune in for encore performances of favorite Trinity concerts, professionally filmed in HD, along with current at-home performances from Trinity’s extended artistic family.

Voices of Ascension
New York choir Voices of Ascension, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next season, is posting a daily offering of choral beauty on its website. Music is chosen by staff, members of the chorus and orchestra, and listeners. View here.

Warsaw Philharmonic
The Warsaw Philharmonic has made a selection of video recordings available on its YouTube channel. Recent offerings include Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony and Arvo Pärt’s Swansong conducted by Artistic Director Andrzej Boreyko, as well as rarities by Polish composers like Grazyna Bacewicz. It’s an excellent orchestra very much in the Eastern European tradition and concerts have been master edited for posting online.

Paid Digital Arts Services

Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall
The BPO Digital Concert Hall contains over 600 orchestra concerts covering more than ten years, including 15 concerts with the orchestra’s new Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, interviews, backstage footage. Subscriptions or single tickets available.

Medici TV
Thousands of classical music videos are available by subscription, as well as hundreds of events that are broadcast live for free each year, available for 90 days. Subscriptions cost $83.85 per year but single tickets are also available. www.medici.tv

Opera Philadelphia Channel
Opera Philadelphia has created its own channel through which to share its digital offering. Operatic films like David T. Little’s Soldier Songs, world premiere digital commissions by Tyshawn Sorey, Courtney Bryan, Angélica Negrón, and Caroline Shaw, and recordings of stage productions like La Traviata and Breaking the Waves are available on-demand. Season subscriptions priced at $99 are offered along with pay-per-view rentals for individual performances. The channel is available on computers and mobile devices, as well as AppleTV, Android TV, Roku, and Amazon FireTV. Explore here.

Photos from the top: Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming in Met Opera 2008 Thaïs.; Ella Fitzgerald; Osmo Vänskä