MA's Free Guide to (Mostly) Free Streams, June 28-July 5

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Monday, June 28

1 pm ET: Music from Copland House presents Underscored: John Musto’s Piano Trio. The Music from Copland House ensemble features John Musto's Piano Trio (1998). The free, 45-minute event begins with a brief introductory conversation with the Emmy Award-winning composer-pianist and is followed by a complete performance of the piece. The program also includes a live, post-performance Q&A among viewers. (Co-presented with The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.) Register and view here.

2:30 pm ET: St. Martin in the Fields presents The Hermes Experiment. The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet dedicated to the performance of new commissions and arrangements scored for their unique combination of harp, clarinet, voice, and double bass. Program: Clara Schumann arr. Pashley “Liebst du um Schönheit”, Josephine Stephenson’s tanka, Anna Meredith arr. Schofield Fin Like a Flower, Giles Swayne Movement 3 from Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses, Prokofiev arr. Schofield Visions Fugitives Op. 22 Nos 1, 7, 8 and 16, Eleanor Alberga’s Deep Blue Sea, Ewan Campbell’s London, he felt fairly certain, had always been London, Maxwell Davies arr. Pashley Farewell to Stromness, Misha Mullov-Abbado’s The Linden Tree, Olivia Chaney arr. Schofield Roman Holiday. Tickets £10. View here for 30 days.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Quartetto Guadagnini & Enrico Bronzi. The Quartetto Guadagnini and cellist Enrico Bronzi perform Schubert’s String Quartet No. 12 in C minor D. 703 Quartettsatz and String Quintet in C Op. 163 D. 956. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Nico Muhly’s Marnie. Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, Christopher Maltman, Janis Kelly, and Denyce Graves, conducted by Roberto Spano. Production by Michael Mayer. From November 10, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Inside Chamber Music: Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor. Bruce Adolphe is joined by CMS artists to examine Mozart's Quintet in G minor for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 516. Considered by many musicians to be one of Mozart's most moving masterpieces, the G Minor String Quintet presents a perfect balance of dark passion and shining intellect. View here and on demand for one week.

7:30 pm ET: Pittsburg Symphony presents Gershwin & Friends. Principal Pops Conductor Byron Stripling and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra welcome double bassist and jazz vocalist Nicki Parrott to Heinz Hall. The program shines the spotlight on the music of great early 20th century composers, including George Gershwin ("Fascinating Rhythm"), Irving Berlin ("Alexander's Ragtime Band"), and Isham Jones ("It Had To Be You"). Tickets $15. View here until July 11.

8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Citizens of Everywhere I. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Mairéad Hickey and Ella Van Poucke perform Kodály’s Duo, begun in July 1914 when he was stranded at the Austrian border. Finola Merivale’s Duo was commissioned when she was composer in residence last autumn at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. Schulhoff’s Duo was written during the Roaring Twenties when all rules were being broken. Tickets $12. View here until June 30.

Tuesday, June 29

** 12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Lagrime Mie. For 45 years, Spitalfields Music has brought meaningful and socially relevant concerts to underserved communities in London. As part of the 2020 Spitalfields season, Dunedin Consort presented a program inspired by composer Barbara Strozzi’s Lagrime Mie—an examination of whether tears or song can better express emotion. Here, the concert is revisited and includes works from Monteverdi, Caccini, and Grandi. With the tenor Nicholas Mulroy and directed by John Butt from the harpsichord. View here until July 11.

2 pm ET: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln presents Roth conducts Poppe & Schumann. François-Xavier Roth conducts the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln in Enno Poppe’s Kiss, Fanfare for Twelve Brass Instruments and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C Op. 61. Tickets pay what you can. View here LIVE.

2 pm ET: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic presents Domingo Hindoyan conducts Stravinsky, Howard, Ravel & Prokofiev. Domingo Hindoyan’s first concert since his announcement as Chief Conductor Designate last June. Stravinsky’s Octet for wind instruments is followed by music from Ravel, Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, and a new concerto written by Dani Howard for trombonist Peter Moore. The concert will be preceded by a live pre-concert talk on Zoom and a post-concert Zoom Q&A with musicians and conductor in a sort of post-match analysis. Tickets £10 and view here for 30 days. LIVE

3 pm ET: The Harris Theater presents Redemption. Multi-genre musical artist and social justice advocate Adrian Dunn joins the Chicago Philharmonic for a performance of Redemption, a new collection of spirituals and gospel songs that reimagine and modernize the genre’s historical roots, celebrate African American history, and honor victims of systemic injustice. Each song, written and arranged by Dunn, has a powerful message, with many dedicated to nationally recognized cases of injustice that sparked an outcry for social change. Joining them are the Adrian Dunn Singers, an all-Black professional vocal ensemble established in 2018. View here.

7 pm ET: International Contemporary Ensemble presents Being & Becoming: Emanations. Being & Becoming was formed in 2017 by composer and trumpet player Peter Evans. The name of the band, drawn from the writing of Sufi writer and musician Inyat Khan, reflects the group's commitment to the challenge of spontaneous creativity. Evans' compositions draw from a wide variety of sources, traditional and experimental, with a grounding in improvisational idioms, notated concert music and an array of experimental approaches. View here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents John Adams’s Doctor Atomic. Starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by Alan Gilbert. Production by Penny Woolcock. From November 8, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

** 8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Intimate Letters. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, the Pavel Haas Quartet performs Martinu’s String Quartet No. 2, Schulhoff’s String Quartet No. 1, and Janácek’s String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters. Tickets $12. View here until July 1.

8 pm ET: North/South Consonance presents George Floyd In Memoriam. From St. John's In the Village, NYC, Max Lifchitz and The North/South Chamber Orchestra perform four recent works for string orchestra by American composers inspired by the loneliness, turmoil, uncertainty, and hopes experienced during the recent past. Douglas Ovens's Song for US—In Memoriam: George Floyd was written during the first week of June 2020 and is dedicated to all the victims of racism and violence. Rain Worthington's Within Deep Currents depicts a sense of immersion within a flow of time and a feeling of being pulled along by underlying currents. Thomas Whitman's Immigrant Portraits sketches the interior lives of immigrants to the United States. Max Lifchitz's Brightness Aloft is a set of variations on a Mexican melody from the 17th century. Further info here. View here and on demand.

8 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Grace Park & Albert Cano Smit. Naumburg artists Grace Park (2018 Violin Award) and Albert Cano Smit (2017 Piano Award) are featured in a Naumburg concert performing two works by Dvorák—Four Romantic Pieces, Op.  75 and the Romance in F Minor, Op. 11—as well as the Rondo Brilliante in B minor, D.890 by Schubert. Park is also showcased performing Ysaye’s Solo Violin Sonata No. 4 in E minor, a work that was dedicated to Fritz Kreisler. Tickets from $1. View here until December 31.

Wednesday, June 30

12 pm ET: Kronberg Academy presents Kirill Gerstein. Antonio Pappano joins the forum to discuss "Puccini's symphonic poem: La Fanciulla del West.” Giacomo Puccini considered the opera to be one of his best works and the conductor of the premiere, Arturo Toscanini, called the opera a "great symphonic poem". Yet, this piece isn't performed nearly as often as Puccini's other operas. Pappano shares his thoughts and ideas on this piece, the genre of opera, singing and music-making. Register here for the free Zoom seminar. LIVE

** 5 pm ET: Baryshnikov Arts Center & Tippet Rise present Aizuri Quartet: What’s Past is Prologue II. The second of two concerts of music by female composers spanning the past millennia, filmed March 2021 at the studio of sculptor Joel Shapiro. Program 2 includes Barbara Strozzi’s (b. 1619) “L'usignuolo” and “L’amante modesto” arranged by Alex Fortes, and British, Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga’s second movement from String Quartet No. 1, inspired by a physics lecture in which the composer learned we are all made of star dust. View here until July 14.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles. Starring Teresa Stratas, Håkan Hagegård, Gino Quilico, Graham Clark, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine. Production by Sir Colin Graham. From January 10, 1992. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Musto & Brahms. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, cellist Jeffrey Zeiglera and pianist Julian Martin perform John Musto’s Sonata for Cello and Piano followed by Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 2 in A, Op. 26 played by Mikhail Kopelman violin, Masumi Per Rostad viola, Amir Eldan cello, and Tao Lin piano. View here. LIVE

** 8 pm ET: Bravo! Vail Music Festival presents Luisi Conducts Ehnes. Fabio Luisi conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with violinist James Ehnes in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 1, Op. 13 and Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93. Tickets $15. View here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Youth’s Magic Horn. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Caroline Melzer and Cédric Pescia perform songs by Mahler who grew up under the spell of the German folk songs collected in Das Knaben Wunderhorn. The five Rückert Songs were composed several years later and are more deeply personal with one of them composed for his wife Alma. Tickets $12. View here until July 2.

8 pm ET: Eighth Blackbird presents Ayanna Woods. The four-time GRAMMY Award-winning Chicago-based music ensemble performs works by composer Ayanna Woods, whose music explores the spaces between acoustic and electronic, traditional, and esoteric, and the wildly improvisational and mathematically rigorous. This program will feature two pieces from her in-progress 3x5 series: a collection of short open-instrumentation pieces whose scores fit on 3x5 cards. The event includes interviews and a Q&A with the artists. Tickets $20. View here.

Thursday, July 1

11 am ET: American Classical Orchestra presents Beethoven Sonatas. The fifth of seven recitals performed on fortepiano. Petra Somlai plays Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, Moonlight. Recorded in June 2020 at Old-Chatolick Church in Amsterdam, on a Chris Maene copy of an Anton Walter fortepiano, 1795. View here and on demand.

** 12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Emerson String Quartet. Maintaining its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for four decades, Emerson String Quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings and received countless awards. Here they play George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, as well as works by Mozart and Shostakovich. View here until July 11.

2 pm: Guildhall School, Barbican & Royal Opera House present Opera Makers. Performed by singers from the first year of the Guildhall Opera Course, Opera Makers features new music written by composers and librettists on Guildhall’s MA in Opera Making & Writing: a program delivered in association with the Royal Opera House. The three new works will be performed with a small orchestral ensemble, linked by well-known opera scenes accompanied by piano. The works are Paradise Garden by Emily Hazrati and Nazil Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh; Text by Michael Bascom and Clare Best; and The Watchmaker’s Daughter by Michal Kawecki and John Morris. View here and repeated on July 2, 5 & 6.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Philip Glass’s Satyagraha. Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 19, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Carnival of Concertos. A newly curated full-length HD concert featuring archival video recordings woven together into never-before-heard concert pairings. Intermission will feature a Q&A with the artists. Program: Mozart’s Concerto No. 12 in A for Piano and String Quintet, K. 414 and Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano, and Strings. View here and on demand for one week.

7:30 pm ET: Carnegie Hall Live presents James Taylor. More than 40 years after his debut in 1970, James Taylor curated a historic concert to mark Carnegie Hall’s 120th anniversary in 2011. Previously seen only by the sold-out audience in attendance that evening, this epic celebration is now available for music-lovers to enjoy around the world. In addition to Taylor and his band, performers include Vince Bruce, Barbara Cook, Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Kevin Pollak, Dianne Reeves, Sting, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and several surprises. View here until July 8.

8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Poème Mystique. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, violinist Nurit Stark and pianist Cédric Pescia perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in G Op. 96, Zara Levina’s Violin Sonata No. 2, and Bloch’s Violin Sonata No. 2, Poème Mystique. Tickets $12. View here until July 3.

9:30 pm ET: Colorado Music Festival presents Beethoven 7 & Augustin Hadelich. Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the 2021 Festival with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. The Festival welcomes its 2021 artist-in-residence, violinist Augustin Hadelich, who begins his residency with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. The program opens with a world premiere by the Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, whose touching elegy commemorates the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tickets $15. View here.

10 pm ET: Pacific Symphony presents Ancient Airs & Dances. Carl St.Clair conducts the Pacific Symphony in Respighi’s Suite No. 1 from Ancient Airs and Dances. Captured on May 22, 2021. View here until July 30.

Friday, July 2

12 pm ET: Bang on a Can & Cantaloupe Music presents First Fridays with Robert Black. This month, First Fridays with Robert Black takes a deep dive into the world of the double bass with music written by bass players. The program includes the raga inspired Poucha Dass by François Rabbath, In Memorium from Rodrigo Mata, Sonia Ray’s Ondas, Emil Tabakov’s Motivy, and Xavier Dubois Foley’s Letting Go. View here.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Giordano’s Andrea Chénier. In the shadow of the French Revolution, a poet and a revolutionary vie for the affections of a noblewoman. Award-winning young director Fabio Ceresa returns to the Hungarian State Opera’s Erkel Theatre for this period production recorded on May 29 2021. With Boldizsár László as Andrea Chénier, Eszter Sümegi as Maddalena de Coigny, and Michele Kalmandy as Carlo Gérard. View here for six months.

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Rolando Villazón & Xavier de Maistre. At the beautiful Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Rolando Villazón partners with French harpist Xavier de Maistre for a concert of intimate arrangements of Latin American songs for tenor and harp. Latin American songwriting, where indigenous, European and African cultures meet, offers a tantalizing collage of sounds, rhythm, melody and narrative. Tickets EUR 4.90. View here until July 4.

7 pm ET: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal presents Alexandra Stréliski. Pianist and composer Alexandra Stréliski wrote and performed the albums Pianoscope and Inscape for which she won five ADISQ Félix Awards as well as a Juno Award. Her accessible music evokes “inner landscapes” transformed by the colors of the orchestra. Thomas Le Duc-Moreau conducts the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Tickets $20. View here until July 15.

7 pm ET: Bryant Park Picnic Performances presents New York City Opera's Carmen. The innkeeper Lillas Pastia narrates the story of Carmen and her lover Don José in this fully staged, hour-long adaptation of Bizet’s opera, providing a perfect introduction for newcomers of any age. The performance features music direction and piano from Kathryn Olander, stage and choreography from Sarah Doudna, and a cast including Lisa Chavez (Carmen), Jason Karn (Don José), Joshua Jeremiah (Escamillo), Kristin Sampson (Micaëla), and Bill Van Horn (Lillas Pastia). View here. LIVE

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents John Adams’s Nixon in China. Starring Kathleen Kim, Janis Kelly, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun, James Maddalena, and Richard Paul Fink, conducted by John Adams. Production by Peter Sellars. From February 12, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

A scene from John Adams's Nixon in China in the Met Opera 2011 staging

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Akiho & Mozart. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, cellist Jeffrey Zeiglera and percussionist Luke Rinderknecht perform Andy Akiho’s 21 followed by Mozart’s Divertimento in E-flat, K. 563 played by Renée Jolles violin, Masumi Per Rostad viola, Steven Doane cello. View here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Roaring Twenties. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Ragazze Quartet, who actively seeks to attract a new audience for quartets through cleverly produced concerts, takes the audience back to the Roaring Twenties while looking into what we think might be the future. Program: Korngold’s String Quartet No. 2 Op. 26, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 Sz.85, and Knox’s Four Into Twenty (Festival Premiere). Tickets $12. View here until July 4.

Saturday, July 3

11 am ET: Our Concerts Live presents Coffee Concerts: Baroque Sonatas. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, percussionist Alex Petcu performs Schwantner’s Velocities, Ella Macens’s Falling Embers, Koshinski’s Swerve, Xenakis’s Rebonds A, Elaine Agnew’s Seagull, Muramatsu’s Land, Kate Moore’s “Spel 1” from Coral Speak, and Zivkovic’s Generally Spoken It's Nothing But Rhythm. Tickets $12. View here until July 5.

** 12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Phenomenal Women Part 1: Quiet Streets. A piano concerto from composer Elena Ruehr, Quiet Streets is an ode to silenced cities during the time of shelter-in-place, capturing the unexpected beauty and tranquil melancholy of a deserted cityscape. The piano piece is accompanied by a virtual string orchestra and a saxophone. Selections from Margaret Bonds and Florence Price—two of the 20th century’s most renowned African American female composers—are also featured. With pianist Lara Downes. View here until July 11.

12 pm ET: NPR Music presents AMPLIFY with Lara Downes. A bi-weekly series of video conversations with visionary Black artists. This week, Downes speaks with violinist Randall Goosby. In addition to his successful career as a soloist, he shares his love of music through community engagement programs for public schools, children’s hospitals, and music programs across the USA. Through Concerts in Motion, a non-profit organization in New York City, he provides private house concerts for elderly and otherwise homebound patrons. In addition, he gives private virtual performances for COVID−19 patients through Project Music Heals Us. View here and on demand.

1 pm ET: Colorado Music Festival presents The Story of Babar. Vaudeville-inspired musical storytellers Really Inventive Stuff uses comedy, props, and interaction to refresh musical classics and enchant audiences of all ages. The Story of Babar tells the tale of one little elephant's epic rise from rags to riches, featuring music by Poulenc and a playful re-imagining by Really Inventive Stuff. This family-delighting program begins with the quirky Toy Symphony in C by Mozart (formerly attributed to Haydn), which includes noisemakers, kazoos, and other toy instruments as part of the orchestra. Register and view here.

7 pm ET: Aston Magna Music Festival presents Three French Masters. Music by Marais, Leclair and Forqueray performed by violinists Edson Scheid and Daniel Stepner, Laura Jeppesen viola da gamba, Catherine Liddell theorbo, and Michael Sponseller, harpsichord. View here and on demand.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Weill’s The Rise and Fall. Of the City of Mahagonny. Starring Teresa Stratas, Astrid Varnay, Richard Cassilly, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From November 27, 1979. View here and for 24 hours.

** 8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents 3 Into 5. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Pavel Haas Quartet is joined by Boris Giltburg for two major works by Dvorák, his tempestuous F minor Piano Trio and the infectious delight of his second A major Piano Quintet. Tickets $12. View here until July 5.

8 pm ET: Staatsoper Berlin presents Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. The new production of the ‘Wild West’ opera, set in California at the time of the Gold Rush, is staged by Lydia Steier. The musical direction of the Staatskapelle Berlin is in the hands of Sir Antonio Pappano, Musical Director of the Royal Opera House and designated Chief Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble of soloists includes Anja Kampe (Minnie) and Marcelo Álvarez (Dick Johnson) as well as Michael Volle (Jack Rance). View here until July 13.

Sunday, July 4

11 am ET: Our Concerts Live presents Coffee Concerts: Fellow Travellers. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Ragazze Quartet play three works linked by the three composers’ presence in the USA: Dvorák’s String Quartet in F Op. 96, American, movements from John Adams’s John’s Book of Alleged Dances, and Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6. Tickets $12. View here until July 6.

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne presents Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. Conducted by Robin Ticciati and directed by Claus Guth, Mozart’s opera is loosely based on the life of the Roman Emperor Titus. With Richard Croft, Anna Stéphany, Alice Coote, Clive Bayley, Michèle Losier, and Joélle Harvey. Captured live at Festival 2017. View here until July 18.

** 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London presents VOCES8: Stardust. A wide-ranging recital connecting natural and spiritual regeneration, recognizing loss, beauty, love and joy. Music from the Renaissance to the present day comes from England (Byrd and Britten), Germany (Schütz and Rheinberger), Scandinavia and Iceland (Alfvén and Sigurbjörnsson), as well as the USA (Ola Gjeilo and Patrick Allen) as well as jazz standard arrangements. The concert includes the world premiere of US composer Taylor Scott Davis’s piece Stardust. Tickets $15. View here until August 31.

2:15. pm ET: Gürzenich-Orchester Köln presents Roth conducts Höller & Schumann. François-Xavier Roth conducts the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln in York Höller’s Entrée for Brass and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Rhenish. Tickets pay what you can. View here LIVE.

** 3 pm ET: Live from the Barbican presents Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason. Brother and sister, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, perform Bridge’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Britten’s Tema Sacher, arrangements of Rachmaninov’s “The Muse” and “It Cannot Be” from Fourteen Romances, Op. 34, and Bridge’s “Spring Song” from Four Short Pieces. Tickets £12.50. View here.

3 pm ET: America/Beautiful presents Livestream #1. A new project from pianist Min Kwon who has commissioned more than 70 composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Nico Muhly, George Lewis, and more to each write a variation on “America the Beautiful”. The project grew out of Kwon, an immigrant, reflecting on her adopted country and asking herself what kind of a place she would be leaving to her two daughters (whose birthdays fall on Presidents Day and the Fourth of July). The filmed variations are presented via four free streams, culminating in two nights of in-person performances July 8 and 9 in the Green-Wood Catacombs. This program features variations by Samuel Adler, Viet Cuong, Avner Dorman, Alan Fletcher, John Harbison, Libby Larsen, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Paul Schoenfeld, Augusta Read Thomas, Liliya Ugay, and Pamela Z, and includes a Q&A. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. Production by Phelim McDermott. From November 23, 2019. View here and for 24 hours.

** 7:30 pm ET: Beth Morrison Projects & National Sawdust present 21c Liederabend. A new work, created in the spirit of the 19th-century German Romantic tradition of the Liederabend musical salon by a diverse collective of women and top-flight talents in the fields of composition and poetry, instrumental and vocal performance, fine art and video art. New Music by Holland Andrews, Amyra León, Lido Pimienta, Paola Prestini, Theodosia Roussos, and Diana Syrse. Interviews with the soprano Renée Fleming, Beth Morrison and Paola Prestini on the future of the songwriting form and in-depth features about all of the creative participants round out the program. View here.

** 8 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Partitas Old & New. From the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, violinist Vadim Gluzman performs Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 and Lera Auerbach: par.ti.ta, the result of her long-term collaboration with Gluzman and her lifelong fascination with Bach. Tickets $12. View here until July 6.

Monday, July 5

12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Bel Canto. Named “Male Singer of the Year” by the International Opera Awards, Lawrence Brownlee performs a program of spirituals, American song, and bel canto arias from Weill, Donizetti, and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. With Myra Huang, piano. View here until July 11.

1:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Zuzanna Sosnowska: the Voice of the Cello. Arts@Future at Spain’s Reina Sofía School presents Polish cellist Zuzanna Sosnowska, accompanied on the piano by Alina Artemyeva, accompanying pianist Professor of the Reina Sofía School, in a journey from Bach’s Suites to the folklore of the Polish composer Bacewicz, passing through suggestive songs by Debussy, in Sosnowska's own arrangement, and the Sonata in F Op. 6 by Richard Strauss. Tickets from $8. View here until December 31.

3 pm ET: America/Beautiful presents Livestream #2. A new project from pianist Min Kwon who has commissioned more than 70 composers including Terry Riley, Tania León, Nico Muhly, George Lewis, and more to each write a variation on “America the Beautiful”. The project grew out of Kwon, an immigrant, reflecting on her adopted country and asking herself what kind of a place she would be leaving to her two daughters (whose birthdays fall on Presidents Day and the Fourth of July). The filmed variations are presented via four free streams, culminating in two nights of in-person performances July 8 and 9 in the Green-Wood Catacombs. This program features variations by Anthony Cheung. Jaehyuck Choi, Pierre Jalbert, Aaron Jay Kernis, Hannah Lash, David Ragland, Shulamit Ran, Jeff Scott, Judith Lang Zaimont, Patrick Zimmerli, and Samuel Zyman, and includes a Q&A. View here.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Dante in the Commedia and the Ars Nova. From the wailing cries and silences of Inferno to the angelic concerts of Paradiso, a program that revisits the pages of The Divine Comedy where music resounds. Dante wrote around the time when Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris were codifying a new musical style in their respective treatises, both entitled Ars Nova Musicæ and published just before Dante’s death. La Fonte Musica performs the music composed during the transition from the Middle Ages to humanism. View here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Derek Hammond-Stroud, and Kurt Moll, conducted by James Levine. Production by Nathaniel Merrill. From October 7, 1982. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Dover Quartet. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, the Dover Quartet performs Schubert’s String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703, Quartettsatz, Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 12, and Dvorák’s String Quartet No. 13 in G, Op. 106. View here. LIVE

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.

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 the 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.

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.

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 last 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.

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.

Top photo: Marilyn Horne as Samira the Turkish Entertainer in The Ghosts of Versailles at the Met Opera