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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: Inferno, Purgatorio. From the wailing cries and silences of Inferno to the angelic concerts of Paradiso, a series of programs that revisit 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 the age of humanism. Part 1 focuses on the Inferno and Purgatorio. 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

Tuesday, July 6

12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Phenomenal Women Part 2: American Pioneers. Paying homage to the trailblazing female composers of the 20th century, Lara Downes delivers an array of piano works from America’s first large-scale female composer Amy Beach, post-minimalist Eve Belgarian, Langston Hughes-collaborator Margaret Bonds, and African American television and film legend Hazel Scott. View here until July 11.

3 pm ET: America/Beautiful presents Livestream #3. 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 Jonathan Berger, Kris Bowers, Richard Danielpour, Reena Esmail, Michael Gilbertson, Jake Heggie, Texu Kim, Lei Liang, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Terry Riley, and Derrick Skye, and includes a Q&A. View here.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Dante in the Commedia and the Ars Nova: Paradiso. 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 the age of humanism. Part 2 focuses on the Paradiso. View here.

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Elektra. Starring Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier, and Eric Owens, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Production by Patrice Chéreau. From April 30, 2016. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Eybler Quartet & Gryphon Trio. Presented by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Gryphon Trio and Eybler Quartets are fulfilling their online mentoring sessions from Toronto with Eybler violinist Aisslinn Nosky and violinist Natalie Cress joining from New York City. London and Vienna in the late 18th century were hives of musical activity, subject to frequent cross-pollination. While Haydn’s trips to London are well documented, here is a deeper exploration of the musical exchange between the two cities. View here. LIVE

Wednesday, July 7

12 pm ET: Kronberg Academy presents Kirill Gerstein. Theoretical linguist Samuel Jay Keyser discusses the subject of his recent book The Mental Life of Modernism. Professor Keyser writes: “Modernism, considered to be the greatest transformation of art forms in the West, is the name given to the shift in the sister arts that occurred around the turn of the 20th century. Poetry ceased to be metrical and to rhyme, music ceased to be tonal, and painting ceased to be representational. Typically, these changes are explained in cultural terms… I would like to place another explanation for Modernism on the table.” Register here for the free Zoom seminar. LIVE

12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Counterpoint with Bach & Beethoven. Examine the nuanced world of counterpoint though the eyes and quills of classical music’s most authoritative and expert composers. Pyxis String Quartet presents an enlightening concert of Bach works and Beethoven’s Die Grosse Fugue. View here until July 11.

1:30 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Nicolás Margarit and Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Arts@Future at Spain’s Reina Sofía School presents young pianist Nicolás Margarit who explores Bach’s world, from the opening Aria, which concentrates all the essence of the piece, to the 30 variations and the final Aria da capo, which closes as a recapitulation of the circular journey. Tickets from $8. View here until December 31.

2:30 pm ET: English Symphony Orchestra presents Mahler Symphony No 9. Recorded at Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth, the English Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Kenneth Woods in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony as arranged by Klaus Simon. View here until July 11.

** 3 pm ET: American Composers Orchestra presents Toulmin Orchestral Commission Program Part II. The Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program in partnership with ACO, commission alumni each year to write a new orchestral work that is premiered by participating orchestras across the country. In this program: Julia Adolphe’s Underneath the Sheen is played by the New York Philharmonic; Cindy Cox’s Transfigurations of Grief is played by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Stacy Garrop’s The Battle for the Ballot is played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; and Niloufar Iravani’s The Seven Valleys is played by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Register and view here.

3 pm ET: America/Beautiful presents Livestream #4. 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 Peter Boyer, Kenji Bunch, Theo Chandler, Michael Gandolfi, Stephen Hartke, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Kristjan Jarvi, JP Jofre, Jiyoung Ko, Gyan Riley, and David Sanford, and includes a Q&A. View here.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Piazzolla’s Maria di Buenos Aires. Latin-American magical realism infuses Piazzolla’s tango opera, premièred in Buenos Aires in 1968. In the sordid slums of Buenos Aires, Maria, a factory worker, is seduced by the music of the tango and lured into an evil trap that makes her first a tango singer and then a sex worker. She dies, but her spirit walks the city until she is miraculously reborn to give birth to a daughter, also named Maria. With Martina Belli, Ruben Peloni, Daniel Bonilla-Torres El Duende, Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli, and Davide Vendramin (bandoneon). Jacopo Rivani conducts. View here.

7 pm ET: Cleveland International Piano Competition presents Virtual Opening Ceremony. The Competition opens with a celebration of the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition contestants. Tickets from $10 (subscription packages available). View here.

7 pm ET: Frost Chopin Academy & Festival presents Recital I: Edward Auer plays Beethoven & Chopin. The 1965 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw prize winner, Professor Edward Auer offers a livestreamed concert of Beethoven’s monumental Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110, as well as a selection of Chopin masterpieces, including mazurkas, the rarely performed Nouvelles Etudes, and two of Chopin’s latest works, the Barcarolle, Op. 60 and the Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61. View here and on demand. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. Starring Deborah Voigt, Natalie Dessay, Susanne Mentzer, and Richard Margison, conducted by James Levine. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 3, 2003. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Currier & Tchaikovsky. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, Renée Jolles, violin, and June Han, harp, perform Sebartian Currier’s Night Time followed by Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70, Souvenir de Florence performed by Mikhail Kopelman and Renée Jolles, violins, Che-Yen Chen and Masumi Per Rostad violas, and Steven Doane and Jeffrey Zeigler, cellos. View here. LIVE

Thursday, July 8

11 am ET: American Classical Orchestra presents Beethoven Sonatas. The sixth of seven recitals performed on fortepiano. Shuann Chai performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 25 in G, Op. 79 Cuckoo. Recorded in May 2021 by videographer Eric de Clercq at the Edwin Beunk atelier in the Netherlands on an 1800 Michael Rosenberger Viennese. View here and on demand.

** 11:45 am ET: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence presents Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra with Nina Stemme as Isolde and Stuart Skelton as Tristan in Simon Stone’s new production. View here until November 1. LIVE

1 pm ET: L’Auditori Barcelona presents Andreas Ottensamer & Jonathan Cohen. Jonathan Cohen conducts the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia with clarinetist Andreas Ottensamer in Haydn’s Overture from The Creation, Sor’s Symphony No. 3 in F, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, KV 622 and the Jupiter Symphony. Tickets Euro 3.90. View here.

3 pm ET: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra presents Soundbox: Metamorphoses with Claire Chase. SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and flutist Claire Chase curates a SoundBox program that explores transformation, transfiguration, and becoming anew. Program: Saariaho’s Terrestre, Pauchi Sasaki’s Sanagi and excerpts from Marcos Balter’s Pan. Tickets $15. View here and on demand.

** 3pm ET: Ludwigsburg Festival presents Tabea Zimmermann & Javier Perianes. Live from the Residenzschloss, violist Tabea Zimmermann and pianist Javier Perianes perform Brahms’s Viola Sonata in E flat, Op. 120, No. 2, Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas, excerpts from Granagos’s Tonadillas en estilo antiguo, and Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Frost Chopin Academy & Festival presents Recital II: Margarita Shevchenko plays Scarlatti, Granados, Ravel, & Chopin. Prize-winner at the 1990 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and professor of piano at Michigan State University, Margarita Shevchenko offers a livestreamed recital featuring a mosaic of works by Scarlatti, Granados, Ravel, and Chopin. View here and on demand. LIVE

7 pm ET: Cleveland International Piano Competition presents First Round Session 1. Contestants perform their First Round solo recitals of 20 minutes from around the world. Tickets from $10 (subscription packages available). View here.

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

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Gamper Festival: The Power of Two. The Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music represents a sustained commitment to nurturing and promoting the music of our time. It is programmed by Festival composer-in-residence Derek Bermel. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, the program includes Justine Chen’s Testing 1-2-3, Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer’s Heiligenschein, Nina Shekar’s if these walls, Marco-Adrián Ramos’s Los héroes gemelos bailan en la Casa de Cuchillos o Breve dúo (The Hero Twins dance in the House of Knives or Brief duo), Anthony R Green’s Nicht Zart II (Hommage à Scelsi), and Jesse Marino’s Rot Blau. View here. LIVE

** 8 pm ET: The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Bizet & Ravel. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Mother Goose Suite, and Bizet’s Symphony No. 1. View here and on demand until July 15. LIVE

10 pm ET: Pacific Symphony presents Haydn Symphony No. 88. With 106 symphonies to his name, Joseph Haydn is known as the “Father of the Symphony”. Carl St.Clair conducts the Pacific Symphony in his Symphony No. 88. Captured on June 5, 2021. View here until July 30.

10:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Concerts presents collectif9. The Night of the Flying Horses is centered around the music of Osvaldo Golijov, an Argentinian composer with international roots. With works spanning over five centuries, the program features music inspired by the Gypsy musicians of more than 500 years ago, the Baroque extravagance of François Couperin, and classical music from the 21st century. View here. LIVE

Friday, July 9

12 pm ET: Carnegie Hall Selects presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Leonard Bernstein became the first American-born conductor of an internationally renowned orchestra when he was named music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1957. In this Emmy Award–winning performance by the Philharmonic from 1975, Bernstein reaffirms his reputation as one of the most daring and emotionally resonant interpreters of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, capturing the drama and emotional depth of the monumental Fourth live at Avery Fisher Hall. View here until July 16.

12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Chorales Through Time. Take a journey through time to explore the evolution of the chorale. Arcturus Wind Quintet treks from early chorale composers like Tallis and Bach through familiar orchestral music from Brahms and Elgar. View here until July 11.

** 1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor. After returning from the war, two brothers resolve never to marry so that they can serve their country. But they find their match when they meet two strong-willed sisters living in a mysterious manor. Considered a jewel of 19th-century Polish opera, Stanislaw Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor is full of melodic inventiveness, bel canto inspiration and unique local color. Poznan Opera's resolutely modern production, directed by the winner of the European Opera Directing Prize Ilaria Lanzino, should win the opera more admirers. View here for six months. LIVE

** 2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Krystian Zimerman performs the Beethoven Piano Concertos I. Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman joins forces with the London Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Simon Rattle for a three-concert cycle of the five piano concertos. This opening concert begins with the Concerto No. 3, in the key of C minor, associated in Beethoven’s work with a sense of drama and foreboding. Second on the program is Concerto No. 1, which reveals the emergence of Beethoven’s own inimitable voice. Tickets EUR 4.90. View here until July 11.

2:30 pm ET: St. Martin in the Fields presents Mendelssohn’s Octet. The Academy of St Martin in the Fields perform Mendelssohn's Octet alongside the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s Partita. Tickets £10. View here for 30 days.

3:30 pm ET: Ravenna Festival presents Kiev Chamber Choir: The Paradiso. Valentin Silvestrov’s sky is ablaze with two polar stars, Dante Alighieri and Taras Ševcenko: as Dante invented Italian poetry 700 years ago, Ševcenko founded modern Ukrainian literature in the 19th century. These two stars light up the new opera Ravenna Festival has commissioned from the Ukrainian composer: O luce etterna, a cantata in ten acts, mainly inspired by Dante’s Paradiso but also incorporating Ševcenko’s poem Evening. The Cherry Orchard. Also on the program is the world premiere of Silvestrov’s In Memoriam for acapella choir. View here.

4:15 pm ET: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence presents Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Lotte de Beer’s new production with a cast that includes Andrè Schuen as Figaro, Julie Fuchs as Susanna, Gyula Orendt as Il Conte di Almaviva, Jacquelyn Wagner as La Contessa Almaviva, and Lea Desandre as Cherubino. View here until November 1. LIVE

5 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Desdemona Ensemble. Presented by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Desdemona performs “Momentum/Stasis” from Tattooed in Snow by Du Yun, Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1 Razumovsky: II. “Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando”, jaune doré by Maria Kaoutzani, three Fantasias by Henry Purcell, and the world premiere by Margaret Kogos. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Cleveland International Piano Competition presents First Round Session 2. Contestants perform their First Round solo recitals of 20 minutes from around the world. Tickets from $10 (subscription packages available). View here.

7 pm ET: Frost Chopin Academy & Festival presents Recital III: Zlata Chochieva plays Grieg, Ravel, & Chopin. Pianist Zlata Chochieva performs a livestreamed recital that features Grieg’s colorful Album Leaves, the Impressionistic Miroirs by Ravel, and Chopin’s late Scherzo No. 4. View here and on demand. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Salome. Starring Karita Mattila, Ildikó Komlósi, Kim Begley, Joseph Kaiser, and Juha Uusitalo, conducted by Patrick Summers. Production by Jürgen Flimm. From October 11, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Franck & Beethoven. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, Franck’s Violin Sonata in A is performed by Ayano Ninomiya and Pei-Shan Lee, while Beethoven’s Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 97, Archduke is played by Mikhail Kopelman, violin, Jeffrey Zeigler, cello, and Tao Lin, piano. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Quartet Salonièrres. Presented by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Quartet Salonièrres perform selections by Haydn, Reicha, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn, and a world premiere by Mathilde Côté. View here. LIVE

9:30 pm ET: Colorado Music Festival presents Brahms 4 & Stewart Goodyear. Guest conductor David Danzmayr leads the Festival Orchestra in Brahms’s Fourth Symphony as well as Saint-Saëns’s Second Piano Concerto, performed by one of the finest pianists of his generation, Stewart Goodyear. The program opens with Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, which the Washington Post declared to be “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life.” Tickets $15. View here. LIVE

Saturday, July 10

** 1 pm ET: San Francisco Opera presents Janácek’s Jenufa. SFO’s 2016 staging of Janácek’s opera of loss and redemption stars Swedish soprano Malin Byström as Jenufa and, undertaking Kostelnicka for the first time in her career, the legendary Karita Mattila. Tenors William Burden and Scott Quinn portray cousins Laca and Števa. Olivier Tambosi directs the cast in a Hamburg State Opera production conducted by Czech maestro and Janácek specialist Jirí Belohlávek in his final Bay Area engagement before his passing the following year. View here until midnight the following day.

1:45 pm ET: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence presents Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Susanna Mälkki conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Simon Stone’s staging with a cast that includes Magdalena Kožená, Sandrine Piau, Tuomas Pursio, and Lilian Farahan. View here until November 1. LIVE

** 2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Krystian Zimerman performs the Beethoven Piano Concertos II. This central chapter in a three-concert cycle of Beethoven’s piano concertos performed by Krystian Zimerman with the LSO and Simon Rattle features Nos. 2 and 4. The Second was in fact the composer’s first full-length orchestral work and largely adheres to norms established by Mozart. The Fourth, meanwhile, responds to the developments in the instrument itself with graceful, profound, and expressive writing that was groundbreaking. Tickets EUR 4.90. View here until July 12.

2 pm ET: Cleveland International Piano Competition presents First Round Session 3. Contestants perform their First Round solo recitals of 20 minutes from around the world. Tickets from $10 (subscription packages available). View here.

4 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents Jennifer Koh Performs Works From “Alone Together.” Twenty composers, most of whom have salaried positions or other forms of institutional support to carry them through challenging times, agreed to donate a new micro-work for solo violin to violinist Jennifer Koh’s “Alone Together” while also recommending a fellow freelance composer to write their own short solo violin work on paid commission. The result is a collection of 40 works that embody the solo violin music of today. For this performance, Koh performs 19 of the works. Tickets from $8. View here until October 10.

5 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Alauda Quartet. Presented by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alauda Quartet performs selections from Mozart’s String Quartet in E flat K.428, the String Quartet Op. 2 No. 5 by Franz Asplmayr (1728-1786), Tippett’s String Quartet No. 2, Duos for two violins by Bartolemeo Campagnoli (1751-1827), and a world premiere by Katrina Toner. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Aston Magna Music Festival presents An Evening of Monteverdi. Music by Baroque master Claudio Monteverdi performed by a world-class team including tenors Aaron Sheehan and Jason McStoots and harpsichordist Adam Pearl, with Cameron Welke, theorbo, Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba, and Scott Metcalfe and Daniel Stepner on baroque violins. View here and on demand.

7 pm ET: Frost Chopin Academy & Festival presents Recital IV: Kevin Kenner plays Schumann & Chopin. The winner of the 1990 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw performs the nature-inspired Scenes from the Forest by Schumann and two of Chopin’s works for piano and orchestra: the Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22 and the Variations on Mozart’s “La ci darem la mano,” Op. 2, in his new arrangements for piano and string quintet. View here and on demand. LIVE

** 7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Arabella. Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Marie McLaughlin, Helga Dernesch, Natalie Dessay, David Kuebler, Wolfgang Brendel, and Donald McIntyre, conducted by Christian Thielemann. Production by Otto Schenk. From November 3, 1994. View here and for 24 hours.

** 7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Gamper Festival: Music in Eight Dimensions. The Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music represents a sustained commitment to nurturing and promoting the music of our time. It is programmed by Festival composer-in-residence Derek Bermel. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, the program includes Fang Man’s Thirsty Stone I, Polina Nazaykinskaya’s a Glimpse of Hope, Lei Liang’s Winged Creatures, Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Jam!, Tom Johnson’s Failing, Tyler Taylor’s Dust, Scott Wollschleger’s A Secret Machine No. 6, and Patrick Zimmerli’s Piano Trio No. 2. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Our Concerts Live presents Dior Quartet. Presented by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Dior Quartet performs Dvorák’s String Quartet Op. 106, Quartet No. 2 The Gathering: III. “Nadir” by Christos Hatzis, and the world premiere of a new work by Joseph Chiu. View here. LIVE

Sunday, July 11

12 pm ET: Oregon Bach Festival presents Nature’s Voice. Scotland’s leading baroque ensemble, Dunedin Consort, celebrates the natural world with a selection of works from prominent 18th-century composers, including Telemann’s Water Music and Concerto No. 3 “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. With soprano Rowan Pierce and directed by John Butt. View here until July 11.

** 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London presents ORA Singers: All Shall Be Well. At the turn of the 15th-century the first female author in the English language, Julian of Norwich, wrote "All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.” Writing during a time of plague, Julian’s phrase echoes through the centuries. ORA Singers and BBC presenter Zeb Soanes present a selection of choral music and readings stretching from Julian's time to ours, celebrating the power of the human spirit, and human art, in the face of life's adversities. The ORA Singers are conducted by Suzie Digby and joined during the program by VOCES8. Tickets $15. View here until August 31.

** 2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Krystian Zimerman performs the Beethoven Piano Concertos III. Krystian Zimerman, the LSO and Simon Rattle bring their Beethoven piano concerto cycle to an end with a performance of the composer’s fifth and final work in the genre, the Emperor Concerto. Composed during the troubled years of the Napoleonic Wars, this is a vital, defiant, and monumental work, its central “Adagio” providing an oasis of serenity amid the imperious, heroic style of the outer movements. Tickets EUR 4.90. View here until July 13.

2 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Music from Copland House. The Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music represents a sustained commitment to nurturing and promoting the music of our time. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, the program includes John Harbison’s November 19, 1828, Pierre Jalbert’s Piano Trio No. 1, Anna Socolofsky’s to sing of sins, and John Musto’s Piano Trio. View here. LIVE

2 pm ET: Cleveland International Piano Competition presents First Round Session 4. Contestants perform their First Round solo recitals of 20 minutes from around the world. Tickets from $10 (subscription packages available). View here.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Starring Renée Fleming, Elina Garanca, Erin Morley, Matthew Polenzani, Marcus Brück, and Günther Groissböck, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. Production by Robert Carsen. From May 13, 2017. View here and for 24 hours.

Monday, July 12

** 7:30 pm ET: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Mozart, Martinu, Spohr & Handel. Recorded this spring at the Frederick R. Koch Foundation Townhouse, this newly curated full-length HD concert features violinist Kristin Lee and violist Matthew Lipman performing Mozart’s Duo in G for Violin and Viola, K. 423, Martinu’s Duo No. 1 for Violin and Viola, Three Madrigals, Spohr’s Duo in E minor for Violin and Viola, Op. 13, and Handel/Halverson’s Passacaglia in G minor for Violin and Viola. View here for one year.

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. Starring Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, conducted by James Levine. From February 16, 2008. View here and for 24 hours.

7:30 pm ET: Bowdoin International Music Festival presents Mozart & Dvorák. From the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine, Elinor Freer and Tao Lin perform Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D, K. 448 followed by a performance of Dvorák’s Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 26 by Ayano Ninomiya violin, Amir Eldan cello, and Tao Lin, piano. View here. LIVE

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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.

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.

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.

NEW: Concertgebouworkest
The Concertgebouworkest will be making its streaming program since June 2020 available free of charge for one month under the name ‘Lockdown Archives’. Since the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, the orchestra has streamed over 80 compositions in more than 40 productions, including 34 orchestral programs. The orchestral players performed socially distanced and usually in an otherwise empty hall, but with an impressive line-up of leading conductors. All the streams together generated some 700,000 views worldwide. 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.

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 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.

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