MA's Free Guide to Free Streams, 11/2-11-9

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Monday, November 2

5:38 am ET: The Crossing presents Ayanna Woods’ Shift (World Premiere). The new-music choir continues The Crossing Votes: 2020, a series of four short films addressing issues in the national discourse leading up to Election Day. Woods has written the words for a work in which she contemplates the reimagining of our monuments, building through layers to its climactic arrival, “bursting through the cracks in the story you tell, America.” Films go live at 5:38 am ET, representing the 538 electoral college votes. View here and on demand.

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton. The soprano’s program of Wolf, Haydn, and Schubert is woven around songs inspired by the ‘muses’ of the day, both mythological and divine. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the second day of a nine-day celebration, fortepianist Ronald Brautigam appears in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 18 The Hunt. View here. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Alice Coote & Christian Blackshaw. The British mezzo-soprano performs Schubert’s Winterreise D911. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the second day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Handel’s Rodelinda. Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 3, 2011. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Schubertiade. Soprano Hannah De Priest, tenor Karim Sulayman, baritone Jonathan Woody, and fortepianist Michael Pecak perform art songs infused with the supernatural, including Schubert’s famous Erlkönig. With commentary from Francesca Brittan, an expert on sonic histories of the supernatural. Suggested donation $10, register and view here.

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Hub New Music. The Boston-based contemporary chamber trailblazers—composed of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello—perform in tandem with composer/harpist Hannah Lash. View here. LIVE

Tuesday, November 3

12 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Conductor: Tomáš Hanus, director: Dmitri Tcherniakov. With Helene Schneiderman, Nicole Car, Anna Goryachova, Larissa Diadkova, Andrè Schuen, Bogdan Volkov, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Mykola Erdyk, and Johanna Mertinz. Register for free and view here.

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the third day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 Eroica. View here.

3 pm ET: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic presents Ensemble 10/10: Music by Tippett, Dobrinka Tabakova, Pärt & Britten. Program: Tippett’s Little Music for String Orchestra, Dobrinka Tabakova’s Fantasy Homage to Schubert, Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, and Britten’s Phaedra. Conducted by Martyn Brabbins with mezzo soprano Jennifer Johnston. 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

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Starring Danielle de Niese, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Stephanie Blythe, conducted by James Levine. From January 24, 2009. View here and for 24 hours.

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: loadbang. The NYC-based contemporary chamber group perform works written for them by Eve Beglarian, Paula Matthusen, Angelica Negron, and Heather Stebbins. View here. LIVE

Wednesday, November 4

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the fourth day of a nine-day celebration, violinist Simone Lamsma and pianist Boris Giltburg appear in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 6. View here. LIVE

1:15 pm ET: Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts presents Marie Tachouet & Beilin Han. Flautist Marie Tachouet and pianist Beilin Han perform selections from Fikret Amirov’s Six Pieces for Flute and Piano, William Grant Still’s Summerland, and Martinu’s Flute Sonata H. 306. View here. LIVE

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: American composer and pianist Timo Andres. View here. LIVE 

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the fourth day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. View here.

2:30 pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra presents Music From The Heart. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts a program of Mendelssohn’s concert overture, Die Schöne Melusine, Mozart’s Symphony No. 34, and Brahms’s Third Symphony. Tickets £6 and view here. LIVE

3 pm ET: London Philharmonic Orchestra presents 2014: Memory & Renewal. Program: Vivaldi’s La Stravaganza, Op. 4, Concerto No. 1 in B flat, Schubert’s Symphony No. 2, Thomas Larcher’s Ouroboros for cello and orchestra, and Reger’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132. Conducted by Thierry Fischer with violinist Pieter Schoeman and cellist Kristina Blaumane. View here and free to watch for seven days.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Mozart’s Idomeneo. Starring Elza van den Heever, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote, Matthew Polenzani, and Alan Opie, conducted by James Levine. From March 25, 2017. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: 92nd St Y presents Emerson String Quartet plays Beethoven. In the first of two concerts, the Emerson String Quartet performs Beethoven’s forward-looking Op. 130 Quartet with its groundbreaking original ending, the Grosse Fuge. Tickets $15. View here.

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Tony Arnold. The internationally acclaimed proponent of contemporary music performs a concert of works by established and emerging composers. View here. LIVE

Thursday, November 5

1 am ET: Chicago Symphony Orchestra presents Great Music From Chicago Episode 1: Jean Martinon & Isaac Stern. In March 1962, Jean Martinon was in Chicago for three weeks. Two months later, he would be named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s seventh music director. In this television appearance he conducts Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Minor, the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Mozart’s First Violin Concerto featuring Isaac Stern. View here and on demand for 30 days.

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the fifth day of a nine-day celebration, the Van Baerle Trio appears in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D, Ghost. View here. LIVE

12 pm ET: Boston Symphony Orchestra presents Encore BSO Recitals. BSO Associate Principal Flute Elizabeth Ostling performs Copland’s 1967 Duo and Michigan-born composer James Lee III’s Chôro sem Tristeza (Lament without Sadness). Brahms’s F minor Piano Quintet began life as a string quintet before Brahms realized he needed the contrasting power of his own instrument, the piano, to bring the piece to its full potential. View here and on demand for 30 days.

1 pm ET: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic presents Nina Stemme. The Swedish soprano joins the orchestra, led by American conductor Karina Canellakis, in a concert with an audience of 300 people in the hall. The program includes music from Tannhäuser—the Overture, “Dich, teure Halle,” and "Allmächt’ge Jungfrau”— as well as the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and a suite from Richard Strauss’s Der Bürger als Edelmann. View here.

1:30 pm ET: Medici TV presents Susanna Mälkki conducts Sibelius, Mendelssohn & Saariaho with Christian Tetzlaff. A concert with a distinctly Northern European flavor, live from London’s LSO St Luke’s. The evening begins with Sibelius's tone poem En Saga. On the other side of the Baltic, it took Mendelssohn six years to complete his Violin Concerto. Christian Tetzlaff is the soloist. The concert ends with two short works from Finland: Lumière et pesanteur by Kaija Saariaho and Sibelius’s spirited Cassazione. Subscriptions from £9.90. View here.

2 pm ET: Gothenburg Symphony presents Sol Gabetta. Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and cellist Sol Gabetta in Zinovjev’s Wiegenlied for Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, and Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the fifth day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. View here.

5 pm ET: Concert Artists Guild presents Alumni Concert: Soo Bae. Cellist Soo Bae shares works consisting of only cellos. Bach’s two Preludes in the key of D are followed by three works, which she has personally arranged: Still for solo cello, Bach’s Arioso for five cellos, and Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone for eight cellos, collaborating with artist Rosie Jon who paints with her toes. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Adelphi Performing Arts Center presents Yael Weiss’s 32 Bright Clouds. The concert includes performances of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No. 7 and No. 32, newly-commissioned works by Sidney Marquez Boquiren (Philippines), Ne Myo Aung (Myanmar), Bongani Ndodana-Breen (South Africa) and Adina Izarra(Venezuela), and the world premiere of a new work from Myanmar, written in the unique style of Burmese Sandaya from Ne Myo Aung. (with a live-streamed Masterclass on Wednesday, November 4 at 1 pm ET). View here. 

7:30 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents Primal Message. Violist-composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama writes “music of bold, mesmerizing character,” including her viola quintet Primal Message, heard here in the world premiere of its orchestral version. Dvorák's Serenade for Strings remains one of his most popular orchestral works. Xian Zhang conducts. Tickets $12 and view here.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Semiramide. Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From March 10, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Dvorák’s Serenade. George Walker, the first African-American graduate from Curtis Institute of Music, began writing Lyric for Strings in memory of his grandmother. Assistant Conductor Erina Yashima leads one of Walker’s early and most enduring compositions. Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings, composed in just 12 days, completes the program. Tickets $15. View here and on demand for three days. LIVE

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Local Voices. FeNAM presents its third annual “Local Voices” concert featuring music by local composers presented by local performers. Program TBA. View here. LIVE

10:30 pm ET: Seattle Symphony presents Morlot conducts Debussy & Martin. Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot leads a program of colorful scores. Seattle Symphony principal flute Demarre McGill is the soloist for Frank Martin’s Ballade and Principal Harp Valerie Muzzolini performs in Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane. Thomas Adès's Three Studies from Couperin and Honegger’s brooding Symphony N. 2 round out the program. View here.

Friday, November 6

1 pm ET: LA Phil Soundstage presents Episode 7: Solitude. While the physical toll of the global pandemic is measured in a mountain of data, the emotional impact of our separation from family, friends, and neighbors is not as obvious. In this episode, Gustavo Dudamel explores the essence of solitude, from one of Duke Ellington’s classic songs to the U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès’s Dawn, composed specifically for a socially distanced orchestra. View here and on demand.

2 pm ET: Medici TV presents Domingo Hindoyan conducts Vivaldi, Neikrug, Enescu & Stravinsky. From Katowice, Poland, Lawrence Foster and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra are joined by guitarist Lukasz Kuropaczewski. The program kicks off with Vivaldi’s Lute Concerto in D followed by Marc Neikrug’s Guitar Concerto, commissioned specially for the occasion. Enescu’s Decet for Winds and Stravinsky’s Concerto for String Orchestra in D, the first work Stravinsky finished as a naturalized American citizen, complete the concert. Subscriptions from £9.90. View here. LIVE

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Barenboim: Beethoven Piano Trios I. Daniel Barenboim founded his trio with son Michael Barenboim and cellist Kian Soltani in 2016. They first performed Beethoven’s complete piano trios at the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin in 2017 and recorded these two concerts in December 2019. Tickets EUR 9.90. View here.

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the sixth day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 Pastoral. View here.

3 pm ET: Live From The Barbican presents BBC Symphony Orchestra & Sakari Oramo. Oramo conducts Anna Clyne’s Within her Arms, Haydn’s Symphony No 49, La Passione, and Magnus Lindberg’s Accused (world premiere of chamber version) with soprano Anu Komsi. Tickets £12.50 and view here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Front Row Mainstage: Exceptional Trios. Archival performances of Rota’s Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano, Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp, Ibert’s Cinq Pièces en Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon, and Schoenfield’s Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano. View here and on demand for a week.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. Starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. From March 24, 1984. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: 92nd St Y presents Midori & Ieva Jokubaviciute play Mozart, Franck & Grieg. Midori brings her characteristic expressivity and formidable technique to a program of Mozart and Grieg with pianist Ieva Jokubavicuite. The concert culminates in a French masterpiece of the late Romantic that plumbs the depths of the human spirit—Franck’s A Major Sonata. Tickets $15. View here.

7:30 pm ET: Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents Jennifer Koh plays Tyshawn Sorey. Jennifer Koh returns for a new work by Tyshawn Sorey, praised for creating immersive sound worlds that defy categorization. Florence Price’s arrangement of spirituals for string quartet are equal parts hymn-like and lyrical. Xian Zhang conducts. Tickets $12 and view here.

8:30 pm ET: Cantus presents BRAVE. Live for an online audience from the Ordway in St. Paul, Cantus looks at evolving ideas of masculinity with works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Sydney Guillaume, as well as Griffin Candey, whose multi-movement Protocol receives its premiere. To realize BRAVE, the ensemble quarantined intensively for two weeks, underwent tests for COVID-19, and rehearsed together in isolation in Decorah, Iowa at what the ensemble has dubbed “Camp Cantus.” Tickets are pay what you can. View here. LIVE

9 pm ET: Minnesota Orchestra presents Spirit & Soul. As part of the Minnesota Orchestra's series of live Friday night concerts, the orchestra's musicians perform Sibelius’s Overture for Brass Septet, Nebojša Jovan Živkovic’s Trio per Uno, Louis W. Ballard’s Ritmo Indio, A Study in American Indian Rhythm, and Mendelssohn’s Octet. These hour-long concerts, which constitute the orchestra’s fall season, feature ensembles of up to 25 musicians performing programs created for at-home viewing. View here. LIVE

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Mivos Quartet. The Chicago-based ensemble is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences. Their performance will feature works by Kate Soper. View here. LIVE

Saturday, November 7

8: 30 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the seventh day of a nine-day celebration, the Festival screens the documentary In Search of Beethoven, featuring interviews with Riccardo Chailly, Janine Jansen, Frans Brüggen and more. View here. LIVE

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the seventh day of a nine-day celebration, the GoYa Quartet appears in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 1. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando. Conductor: Matthias Pintscher. With Kate Lindsey, Anna Clementi, Eric Jurenas, Constance Hauman, Margaret Plummer, Agneta Eichenholz, Leigh Melrose, Marcus Pelz, Carlos Osuna, and Wolfgang Bankl. Performance of December 18, 2019. Register for free and view here. 

1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera. SFO’s 2014 production features the Company debut of Julianna Di Giacomo, a Merola Opera Program graduate, as Amelia, opposite Thomas Hampson as her husband Count Anckarström, and Ramón Vargas as Gustavus III. Heidi Stober takes on the trouser role of the page, Oscar, Dolora Zajick is the fortuneteller, Ulrica, with Efraín Solís as Silvano and Christian Van Horn and Scott Conner as the chief conspirators. The production is directed by Jose Maria Condemi with Nicola Luisotti leading the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. View here until midnight the following day.

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Verdi’s La Traviata. Recorded on July 15, 2020. Teatro Real’s semi-staged concert version was one of the first productions to be put on worldwide after lockdown. The ambitious undertaking weaves reality into its staging concept and features a cast led by Marina Rebeka, Michael Fabiano, and Artur Rucinski. View here and on demand for six months.

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the seventh day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. View here.

6 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Lara Downes. Lara Downes gives the world premiere of Stephanie Ann Boyd's solo piano work My Grandmother's Garden. The piece is a musical portrait of Downes's and Boyd's grandmothers. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents New World Symphony: Adams x Adams. John Adams hosts a virtual celebration of his own music, as well as that of a younger generation. Named after a truck stop on the California-Nevada border, Hallelujah Junction drives with a hypnotic pulse, while his Shaker Loops takes audiences on a ferocious and exhilarating sonic ride. Adams also shares the music of 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon and Brazilian-born Marcos Balter. Tickets EUR 15. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Starring Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna, Nathan Gunn, and Robert Lloyd, conducted by Plácido Domingo. From December 15, 2007. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Louisville Orchestra presents America Sings: Copland’s Appalachian Spring. A salute to the American folk music tradition. Special guest artist and legendary bluegrass musician Sam Bush joins the LO and Teddy Abrams for a celebration of tradition and music concluding with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Tickets from $25 and view here. LIVE

8:30 pm ET: The Tobin Center presents Vadim Gluzman. The violinist performs with Olmos Ensemble and American bass-baritone Timothy Jones in a socially distanced concert in Tobin Center’s H-E-B Performance Hall. Program: Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, arr. Joachim Linckleman and Le Tombeau de Couperin, arr. Gunther Schuller, and Stravinsky’s The Soldier's Tale. Tickets $17. View here for 48 hours. LIVE

9 pm ET: Houston Symphony presents Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts Mozart’s Jupiter. Program: Saint-Georges’s Symphony No. 2 in D (Overture to L’Amant Anonyme), Fischer’s Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C, Jupiter. Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts with Leonardo Soto, timpani. Tickets $20. View here.

10 pm ET: La Jolla Music Society presents Third Coast Percussion in Metamorphosis. Featuring choreography by Movement Art Is—Jon Boogz and Lil Buck—and performed by Ron Myles and Quentin Robinson. Music by Glass and Jlin. Tickets $15. View here and on demand until November 14.

10 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Olivia de Prato. Violinist Olivia de Prato performs Jen Shyu’s composition Jum Jeng Yi (Fortune Teller) in a program that also includes works by Anahita Abbasi, Zosha Di Castri, Missy Mazzoli, and Angelica Negron. View here. LIVE

Sunday, November 8

10 am ET: London Mozart Players presents Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. LMP performs their Autumn 2020 program online recorded in front of socially distanced audiences in the baroque gem that is London’s St. John’s Smith Square. Actor Tama Matheson narrates Stravinsky’s Faustian story, where rhythms of ragtime, tango, waltz and a march jostle for position. Tickets £12. View here.

10 am ET: Young Concert Artists presents 2020 YCA International Auditions Final Round. From Merkin Hall at NYC’s Kaufman Music Center, young artists take part in the final auditions. Join live to discover classical music’s next superstars. Livestreamed on YCA’s YouTube channel and Facebook page.

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the eighth day of a nine-day celebration, an ensemble from the Concertgebouworkest appears in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s Octet. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Conductor: Plácido Domingo, director: Jürgen Flimm. With Aida Garifullina, Rachel Frenkel, Rosie Aldridge, Juan Diego Flórez, Carlos Osuna, Martin Müller, Gabriel Bermúdez, Igor Onishchenko, Ayk Martirossian, Wolfgang Bankl, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, and Alexandru Moisiuc. Performance of February 1, 2017. Register for free and view here. 

1 pm ET: The Gesualdo Six’s London Sound Gallery presents The Hermes Experiment. Works by Emily Hall, Errollyn Wallen, and Alex Mills are performed alongside arrangements of pieces by Anna Meredith and Peter Maxwell Davies. Two new graphic scores by Anna Disley-Simpson and Jacob Fitzgerald will be premiered with The Gesualdo Six in a collaborative performance. Tickets £10. View here and on demand until January 1, 2021. LIVE

1:45 pm ET: Budapest Festival Orchestra presents Concertino: Elgar, Dvorák, Loussier, Dubrovay. Concertmaster János Pilz leads the BPO in a program of Elgar’s Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 Dvorák’s Nocturne in B, Op. 40; Jacques Loussier’s Violin Concerto No. 2; Dubrovay’s Trumpet Concerto No. 3; and Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings in E, Op. 22. View here. LIVE

2 pm ET: The Gilmore presents Pierre-Laurent Aimard. A Virtual Piano Masters Concert live from Teldex Studio, Berlin. French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs a program of works by Beethoven, Messiaen, and Stockhausen. The repertoire connects three brilliant composers who pushed the limits of sound, composition, and the piano itself to challenge the musical conventions of their time. Click in at 1 pm ET for a pre-concert talk with Gilmore Director Pierre van der Westhuizen and Zaide Pixley, PhD, Professor Emerita, Kalamazoo College. Tickets: Pay what you can (suggested value $55) View here.

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the eighth day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. View here.

3 pm ET: Handel + Haydn Society presents Every Voice. This year H+H’s community concert celebrates female composers in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, led by Reginald Mobley. Suggested donation $10. Register and view here.

5:30 pm ET: Shriver Hall presents Garrick Ohlsson & Kirill Gerstein. Keyboard powerhouses Garrick Ohlsson and Kirill Gerstein join forces for a two-piano recital. Recorded in the San Francisco Conservatory, the program features Busoni’s homage to Bach alongside Rachmaninov and Ravel’s rich color, rhythmic drive, and melodic splendor. The performance will be followed by an Artist Q&A. Tickets $15. View here for three days.

6 pm ET: Sacramento School of Music presents Festival of New American Music: Rogue Music Project. RMP is a collective specializing in opera and classical music that pushes artistic boundaries and breaks genre rules to reinvigorate the theater-going experience. Their performance, filmed at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum, features vocalists Kevin Doherty, Sarah Fitch, Carrie Hennessey, and Omari Tau; and pianist Jennifer Reason. View here.

7 pm ET: Celebrity Series of Boston presents Alisa Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan. The cellist and pianist will perform a streamed concert from the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla, CA. Program: Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnol and Rachmaninov’s Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19. The concert is followed by a live chat with the artists. Concert $20 or $90 for series of six. Purchase and view here and for 72 hours. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Starring Annette Dasch, Johan Botha, Paul Appleby, and Michael Volle, conducted by James Levine. From December 13, 2014. View here and for 24 hours.

Monday, November 9

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Lawrence Power & Ryan Wigglesworth. The violist and composer-pianist perform songs by Dowland, Britten’s Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of John Dowland Op. 48, Wigglesworth’s Waltzes (world premiere), and Brahms’s Viola Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 120 No. 1. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

11 am ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the final day of a nine-day celebration, an ensemble from the Concertgebouworkest appears in an “Empty Concertgebouw Session” performing Beethoven’s Septet. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: Copland House & CUNY present Underscored: Musto’s Sextet. Derek Bermel, clarinet, Curtis Macomber and Harumi Rhodes, violins, Danielle Farina, viola, Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello, and Michael Boriskin, piano perform the Sextet for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano by John Musto. The Sextet runs the gamut from raucous and irrepressible to serene and decorous, embracing jazzy riffs, klezmer wails, and Yiddish folk music. Includes live Q&A. Register and view here. 

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Puccini’s Tosca. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director Margarethe Wallmann. With: Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson, Ryan Speedo Green, Alexandru Moisiuc, Benedikt Kobel, Igor Onishchenko, Ayk Martirossian, and Rebekka Rennert. Performance of February 17, 2019. Register for free and view here. 

2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Sarah Fox, Kitty Whately, Alessandro Fisher, Stephan Loges & Joseph Middleton. The vocal quartet sing solos songs and ensembles by Schubert, Purcell, Brahms, Hahn, Bizet, Poldowski, Fauré, Quilter, Vaughan Williams, and Sullivan. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents Beethoven Festival Online. On the final day of a nine-day celebration, the Concertgebouworkest is conducted by Iván Fischer in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 Choral. View here.

6:30 pm ET: Orchestra of St. Luke’s presents Musical Revolutionaries. OSL’s Composers of Note series begins with two new chamber works, both co-commissioned and premiered by OSL in recent seasons through the Music in Color initiative. Matthew Evan Taylor’s Dawn of a New Day creates atmosphere through sound. Anjna Swaminathan’s Duplicity fuses the melodies and rhythms of South Indian classical music with the Western classical string quartet form. The works are paired with Beethoven’s String Quintet, Op. 29. Tickets $40 per household (suggested) but minimum donation $1 per concert. View here. 

7 pm ET: Kaufman Music Center presents What Makes It Great? Beethoven's Archduke Trio. Widely considered the greatest piano trio ever written, this iconic work replaces the polite, private, amateur world of chamber music with virtuosic, public music of symphonic scope. Filmed in Merkin Hall, the Horszowski Trio explores the work. Tickets from $15 and view here.

7 pm ET: Young Concert Artists presents 2020 YCA International Auditions Winners Concert. From Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, a concert by the winners of yesterday’s final auditions. View LIVE here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta & Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. Starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From February 14, 2015. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Music Mondays presents Shai Wosner & Orion Weiss. Shai Wosner joins long-time collaborator Orion Weiss for a special program of four-hand piano music. Together, the pianists play Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and the first three pieces in Dvorák’s Legends. Immediately after the concert, the artists will be available for a post-concert Q&A via Zoom. View here. 

Artists and Organizations Offering Free Content

The following are all accessible during the coronavirus pandemic:

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.

NEW: 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.

NEW: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
BSO Sessions continues to bring the stories of BSO musicians, conductors, and collaborators to life through a documentary-style narrative. In addition to the first three episodes currently available upcoming episodes celebrate a responsible return of winds and brass to the stage, as well as the series debut of Music Director Marin Alsop and Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly. Assistant Conductor Jonathan Rush interviews film composer Michael Abels and Artistic Partner Wordsmith joins in a special holiday episode with a new rendition of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” 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.

Beijing Music Festival

Beijing Music Festival celebrates its 23rd edition with the theme, "The Music Must Go On” and a selected concert available each day. Highlights include the Opening Concert, which features the world premiere of Dedicated to 2020, a choral symphony composed by Wuhan composer Ye Zou, and performed by the Wuhan Philharmonic, the Beijing Symphony, and the Wuhan-born musicians of the China Philharmonic; the BMF debut of the Suzhou Chinese Orchestra; Beethoven’s violin sonatas performed by 10 rising-star Chinese violinists; piano recitals by Yuan Shen and Jiayi Sun; a children's concert performed by the BMF Children's Festival Orchestra; and the Closing Concert, which celebrates China Philharmonic's 20th anniversary with the theme "We Were Born in 2000" with soloists all born that year. View here.

Lisa Bielawa’s Voters’ Broadcast

A participatory performance for unlimited voices and instruments. The work is directed, conceived and composed by Lisa Bielawa, with text excerpted from Sheryl Oring’s I Wish to Say. Voters’ Broadcast will be premiered in three virtual events hosted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Kaufman Music Center in New York on September 30, October 14, and October 28, and one day of outdoor performances presented by Kaufman Music Center and Brooklyn Public Library on October 24 at 11 am, 12:30 pm, and 2 pm. Bielawa’s mission is to stimulate voter engagement, political awareness, and community participation through the act of giving voice to the concerns of fellow citizens during the lead-up to the 2020 Presidential election. All events are free and open to the public. See here for updates.

Carnegie Hall
More than 200 teen musicians hailing from 41 states across the US came together in July 2020 as an online virtual community to form three musical ensembles: the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA), NYO2, and NYO Jazz. All three ensembles recorded exuberant virtual performance videos during the residency, directed by Emmy Award-winner Habib Azar. The first four videos—Valerie Coleman’s Umoja by the musicians of NYO-USA; a unique adaptation of Grieg’s Morning Mood by NYO2; and Thad Jones’s Cherry Juice and Wycliffe Gordon’s We’re Still Here by NYO Jazz—are now available for viewing. Explore here.

The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is offering archival videos, daily Mindful Music Moments videos, and videos from musicians performing from home. Explore here.

Cliburn Kids
The Cliburn launches its expanded, robust online music education program for elementary-school students. Created as a resource for school districts, teachers, and parents, the initiative includes 27 lesson plans to date, each with a seven- to ten-minute video, and corresponding individual and class activities that meet objectives of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). New episodes and lesson plans are released every Tuesday of the 2020–2021 school year for a total of more than 50 by May 2021. 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.

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
The Kennedy Center is offering a free, live digital performance initiative, Couch Concerts, to help inspire, uplift, heal, and bring the performing arts into homes across the country and around the world during these difficult times. Couch Concerts stream direct from artists’ homes on the Kennedy Center website. Audiences can discover a wide range of other at-home programming through the Kennedy Center at Home webpage.

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.

NEW: 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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. **

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.

The Sixteen
The Sixteen and founder Harry Christophers launched Quarantine with The Sixteen, a regular schedule of digital content. The Sixteen Virtual Choir’s performance of Sheppard’s Libera nos involved each part being recorded at each singer’s home. Other features include: Choral Chihuahua, a podcast by The Sixteen and I Fagiolini; Stay at Home Choir performing Sir James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn; Archive performances, including MacMillan’s Stabat Mater performed in the Sistine Chapel and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Streetwise Opera; Recipes for isolation; Video diaries providing insight into daily lives during lockdown; Weekly playlists. 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.

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Colorado Boulder College of Music faculty artists perform with students and colleagues in Faculty Tuesdays, chamber music recitals featuring world premieres alongside classics. Free most Tuesdays from September 2020 through March 2021. Upcoming performers include violinist Harumi Rhodes, violist Richard O'Neill, cellist David Requiro, pianist David Korevaar, harpist Janet Harriman, and more. Explore here.

NEW: Vertical Player Repertory: The Constitution

VPR is releasing of a series of videos from Benjamin Yarmolinsky’s oratorio The Constitution, a work which played six sold-out live performances in 2019 and was called “an important work,” and “uniformly excellent,” by Musical America. First up is Voting Rights, which sets the text “The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of age, by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax, on account of sex, on account ot race, on account of color, or of previous condition of servitude.” Future releases will include The First Amendment (Treason), The Fifth Amendment (Self-Incrimination), The Sixth Amendment (Impartial Jury), The Eighth Amendment (Cruel and Unusual Punishment), The Thirteenth Amendment (Abolition of Slavery), and The Miranda Warning (a world premiere). Explore here.

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.

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. www.medici.tv

**Highly recommended