MA's Free Guide to (Mostly) Free Streams, August 17-24

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Monday, August 17

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents Andrea Baker & Richard Lewis. Mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker and pianist Richard Lewis perform a song recital entitled Sing Sistah Sing! View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: Church of Trinity Wall Street presents Comfort at One. From May 2017: Members of the Choir of Trinity Wall Street—Molly Netter, Luthien Brackett, Andrew Fuchs, and Jonathan Woody—join New York Baroque Incorporated to perform works by Bach and Telemann, plus a special arrangement of “Stairway to Heaven” by Julian Wachner. View here.

2 pm ET: 92Y Summer Concerts presents Robert Levin. The pianist, improviser, and Mozart expert plays popular Mozart works, embellishing melodic lines and taking off on flights of fancy as the composer would have done himself. Levin will also spontaneously improvise on audience-submitted themes. Tickets from $10. View here and on demand for one week. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Puccini’s Tosca. Starring Patricia Racette, Roberto Alagna, and George Gagnidze, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. From November 9, 2013. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra Encore Performances. Record during the 2019 season, Andris Nelsons conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Act III of Wagner’s Die Walküre with Christine Goerke singing Brünnhilde. Register free and view here.

8 pm ET: Grand Teton Music Festival presents Music From The Mountains. Opening concert program: Wagner’s Entrance of the Guests from Tannhäuser with trumpeters Barbara Butler, Charles Geyer, and Charles Daval plus Richard Brown on snare drum; Dvorák’s Terzetto in C for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74 with violinists Madeline Adkins and Jennifer Ross, and violist Susan Gulkis Assadi; and Glière’s Four Pieces for Horn and Piano, Op. 35 (selections) with Gail Williams on horn and Donald Runnicles on piano. View here. LIVE

Tuesday, August 18

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents Elias String Quartet. The Elias Quartet performs Sally Beamish’s Reed Stanzas, Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat Op. 64, No. 6, and a selection of Scottish Folk Tunes (arranged Grant). View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents #OperaHarmony 3. During lockdown, over 100 opera makers from across the world have formed an online community to create new digital operas. Each Tuesday in August, five of these short operas will be streamed and, after each presentation, viewers will have one week to vote for their favorite creation. Week 3 shifts its focus from the lockdown to offer parallel narratives of overcoming distance and human connection. View here.

1 pm ET: Church of Trinity Wall Street presents Comfort at One. Celebrating Lou Harrison’s centennial, NOVUS NY perform his rarely performed work Solstice as well as compositions by NOVUS NY members Doug and Brad Balliett. View here.

2 pm ET: European Concert Hall Organization presents Kölner Philharmonie. Early music ensemble L’Arpeggiata, soprano Nuria Rial, and conductor Christina Pluhar lead a musical journey from Portugal along the coasts of Tunisia, Italy and Greece to Turkey. View here and on demand.

5:45 pm ET: International Music Foundation presents Rush Hour Concert: Deborah Sobol Memorial. Cellist Kenneth Olsen and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang perform Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op.73 and Ethel Smyth’s Cello Sonata, Op. 5. View here and on demand. LIVE

6 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Conrad Tao [pictured]. The composer and pianist presents a program featuring John Adams’s China’s Gate and a series of original improvisations. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents She’s The First. A concert celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed and protected women's constitutional right to vote. The concert of music written entirely by women, will be hosted by singer-saxophonist-composer Grace Kelly and conducted by Christopher Wilkins and Katherine Chan. Program includes music by Ethel Smyth plus works by living American composers Nkeiru Okoye, Francine Trester, and Valerie Coleman, plus historically significant works by Amy Beach and Florence Price. Register and view here.

7:30 pm ET: 92Y Summer Concerts presents Jeremy Denk plays Schubert, Schumann & Chopin. MacArthur “Genius” Award Winner Jeremy Denk takes us an inward journey reflecting on creativity sparked by adversity in works by Schubert, Chopin and Schumann (details to be announced). Tickets $10 and view here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini. Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From April 7, 1984. View here and for 24 hours.

11 pm ET: Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival presents A Classical Evening. Ransom Wilson conducts the Overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Haydn's Symphony No. 94 “Surprise” (Andante), and the finale from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. View here.

Wednesday, August 19

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents Hebrides Ensemble. The Hebrides Ensemble performs Judith Weir’s Sketches from a Bagpiper’s Album and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents TLI MasterPass: Dawn Upshaw. A Tanglewood Music Center vocal class led by Dawn Upshaw. Cost of event: $5. View and purchase tickets here.

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Virtual Bayreuth Festival: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Barrie Kosky’s “astonishingly entertaining and convincing” (Der Spiegel) 2017 production conducted by Philippe Jordan. With Michael Volle (Hans Sachs), Günther Groissböck (Pogner), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing), Daniel Behle (David), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva). Tickets 4.90 Euros here and view for 48 hours.

5 pm ET: Composers Concordance presents Social Bubble Salon Concert. Seven composers/performers perform in a socially distanced setting while simultaneously live streaming with seven cameras. Compositions include: Asking For a Friend by Mark Kostabi, Gene Pritsker's Bitcoin Without A Blockchain, Music Over Wall Street by Dan Cooper, Havana Murder Mystery by Machiko Ozawa, Set for Two by Charles Coleman, Projet Imaginaire 1.4 by Lynn Bechtold, and Warm Silence by Ginka Mizuki. The performance will take place on the historic 25th floor terrace of 20 Pine Street, formerly 2 Chase Manhattan Plaza. View here. LIVE

7 pm ET: LA Opera presents Living Room Recital: Philip Cokorinos. The bass-baritone has been a mainstay at LA Opera since 2007, with memorable appearances as Benoit/Alcindoro in La Bohème, the Sacristan in Tosca and Suleyman Pasha in The Ghosts of Versailles. His online recital with pianist David Holkeboer shows a different side of his artistry, with songs by Schubert, Brahms, and Cole Porter. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Starring Anna Netrebko, Elena Maximova, Alexey Dolgov, Peter Mattei, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Robin Ticciati. From April 22, 2017. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Recitals from the World Stage: Garrick Ohlsson. Hosted by Karen Allen. From the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Canadian pianist performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp, Op. 78 followed by the Hammerklavier, one of the defining works of Beethoven’s final decade. Cost of event: $8. View and purchase tickets here.

8 pm ET: Grand Teton Music Festival presents Music From The Mountains. Program: Jennifer Higdon’s Amazing Grace for String Quartet and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 with violinists Angela Fuller Heyde and Eunice Keem, violist Meredith Kufchak, cellist Christopher Adkins, and Gregory Raden on clarinet. View here. LIVE 

8:30 pm ET: Sun Valley Music Festival presents Season Finale: Encores. Music Director Alasdair Neale leads a concert featuring a selection of encores performed by Festival Orchestra musicians, guest artists, and the entire orchestra. View here. LIVE

Thursday, August 20

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents . The pianist and Members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra perform Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (chamber version arr. Lachner). View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: IDAGIO presents Thursdays with Thomas. Join Thomas Hampson in conversation with colleagues, friends, and other major personalities of the classical music world. Every week, Thomas invites a special guest for a discussion around their favorite piece of the classical repertoire. View here and later on demand. LIVE

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Virtual Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser. Tobias Kratzer’s 2019 production of Tannhäuser was greeted with a standing ovation and exceptional press acclaim. The young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen makes her “astonishingly mature” (New York Times) Bayreuth debut as Elisabeth, American heldentenor Stephen Gould exhibits “great dramatic and vocal power in the title role” (Telegraph), and Russian mezzo Elena Zhidkova is the “scene stealing Venus” (Opera Today). Tickets 4.90 Euros here and view for 48 hours.

2 pm ET: Kaufman Music Center presents Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home Part 1. Broadcast from Home is a musical work that created community during isolation. Bielawa asked the public to submit testimonies about their experience of the crisis. She then selected testimonies to set to music and invited the public, as well as some frequent collaborators, to perform the music from their homes. The work is now streamed in its entirety with Bielawa in conversation with contributors from around the globe moderated by John Glover, Director of Artistic Planning at Kaufman Music Center. Register and view here with Part 2 tomorrow.

2:30 pm ET: Salzburg Festival & Medici TV present Renaud Capuçon and Martha Argerich play Beethoven, Franck, and Prokofiev. Live from the House for Mozart, Martha Argerich and Renaud Capuçon come together in a program that highlights their artistic sensibility and technical prowess, as well as the rapport they have developed and refined after years of collaborations. View here. LIVE

6 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Thana Alexa & Antonio Sánchez. A dual performance by the four-time Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Female Vocalist nominee Thana Alexa and her husband, Pat Metheny sideman and Birdman soundtrack composer, percussionist Antonio Sánchez. Their program will explore how the pair use song to bridge cultures and musical traditions, both as performers and as a couple. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: 92Y Summer Concerts presents Beowulf. A millennium before Game of Thrones, there was Beowulf. Singer/harpist/performer Benjamin Bagby’s one-man performance was recorded in January, evoking an entire ancient world with just voice and six-string harp. Tickets from $10. View here and on demand for one week. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (Classic Telecast). Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. View here and for 24 hours.

10 pm ET: Seattle Opera Songs of Summer presents Ben Bliss. Tenor Ben Bliss debuted with Seattle Opera in Così fan tutte and returned in 2018 as Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw. His program includes selections by Mozart, Gounod, and Strauss, collaborative performances with Barnaby Bright, Sammy Miller, and The Congregation, and self-accompanied pieces by Lennon & McCartney. View here and on demand for two weeks. LIVE

Friday, August 21

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents Dunedin Consort. The Dunedin Consort performs Isabella Leonarda’s Sonata duodecima, Telemann’s Paris Quartet TWV43:G1, Jacquet de la Guerre’s Violin Sonata No.1, Leclair’s Flute Sonata in E Minor, Op. 9 No. 2, and Bach’s Trio Sonata in G, BWV 1038. View here and on demand. LIVE

8 am ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Live from LSO St Luke's. Program: Chick Corea’s Duet – Suite and Gwilym Simcock’s Quintet and Barber Blues played by the LSO Percussion Ensemble. View here and on demand. LIVE

1 pm ET: National Sawdust presents Amir ElSaffar Masterclass. Helga Davis and Paola Prestini will be joined by the multi-instrumental jazz/classical/Arab-traditional performance innovator and trumpeter Amir ElSaffar. The trio will discuss the technique and purposes of musical fusion, how they choose which wells they draw from to best realize their work, and the role of the modern cosmopolitan artist in a post-COVID world. View here. LIVE

1 pm ET: OperaVision presents Close. World premiere recording from the Norwegian National Ballet on June 11, 2020. Two film directors, two choreographers, and nine dancers meet on the mainstage of the Oslo Opera House to offer new ballet in a cinematic experience. Melissa Hough’s 5 Ballerinas and Lucas Lima’s Distant Closeness are connected by an intermission highlighting the opera house as a living organism. View here and on demand for three months.

2 pm ET: IDAGIO presents New World Symphony: Berlioz’s Harold in Italy Reimagined. The New World Symphony and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas present a reimagined Harold in Italy. Steven Mackey’s take on Berlioz’s concerto-symphony hybrid depicts its protagonist, drawn loosely from a poem by Lord Byron, in a new light, elaborating on Berlioz’s colorful themes and adding a new cadenza. Violist Tabea Zimmermann is the soloist in this performance filmed in October 2019 as part of New World Symphony's Viola Visions festival. Tickets $12. Purchase and view here and on demand for 48 hours.

2 pm ET: Kaufman Music Center presents Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home Part 2. Broadcast from Home is a musical work that created community during isolation. Bielawa asked the public to submit testimonies about their experience of the crisis. She then selected testimonies to set to music and invited the public, as well as some frequent collaborators, to perform the music from their homes. The work is now streamed in its entirety with Bielawa in conversation with contributors from around the globe moderated by John Glover, Director of Artistic Planning at Kaufman Music Center. Register and view here.

2 pm ET: Orchestre Métropolitain presents Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3. The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Deutsche Grammophon stream Beethoven’s first eight symphonies. Recorded at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts with cutting-edge sound and vision, over 50 musicians join forces to celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday. Tickets 9.90 Euros here and on demand for 48 hours.

2 pm ET: Rolex and Medici TV present Perpetual Music with Juan Diego Flórez. The celebrated tenor welcomes a group of singers accompanied by the Rossini Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Franklin to the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro for an all-Rossini evening. Artists include Davide Luciano, Eleonora Buratto, Xabier Anduaga, Karine Deshayes, and Nino Machaidze. Program includes arias from La Donna del Lago, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L'Italiana in Algeri, La Scala di Seta, Armida, La Cenerentola, Semiramide, William Tell, and Il Viaggio a Reims. View here until October 31.

5 pm ET: CHQ Assembly presents Cocktails, Concerts & Conversations. An Evening of chamber music and conversation with Joshua Bell and Larisa Martínez. Bell, Martínez, and Kamal Khan perform Mendelssohn/Arr. Eugene Kohn "Ah, ritorna età dell'oro", Kreisler’s Liebesfreud, Schubert’s Ave Maria, the Bizet/Sarasate Carmen Fantasy, Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and Bernstein/Arr. Brohn and Czarnecki’s West Side Story Medley. Register for a 90-day free trial here. 

7 pm ET: LA Opera presents Living Room Recital: Andrew Owens. The tenor makes his virtual company debut, joined by pianist Chris Reynolds and flautist Jessica Warren, in a program of Italian romances and songs made famous by Mario Lanza. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra. Starring Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, Plácido Domingo, and James Morris, conducted by James Levine. From February 6, 2010. View here until 12 pm ET August 1.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents BSO Musicians in Recital from Tanglewood. Hosted by Lauren Ambrose. BSO violinist Julianne Lee plays Daniel Bernard Roumain’s Filter for solo violin. Lee performs with BSO violist Rebecca Gitter in Mozart’s Duo in G. Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet takes its name from a melody it shares with music he wrote for the stage play by that name. Cost of event: $5. View and purchase tickets here. LIVE

8 pm ET: Grand Teton Music Festival presents Music From The Mountains. Program: Brahms’s Hungarian Dances (selections), Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances (selections) with pianists Yefim Bronfman and Donald Runnicles, Shostakovich’s Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano with violinists Madeline Adkins and Jennifer Ross plus Donald Runnicles on piano. View here. LIVE 

8 pm ET: Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Virtual Beethoven Festival presents Jonathan Biss. From his home in Philadelphia, the pianist continues his decade-long immersion in the music of Beethoven, performing and discussing Piano Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 14, No. 2, and Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 (Waldstein). View here.

10 pm ET: La Jolla Music Festival presents Opening Night. Program: Ives’s The Unanswered Question and Schubert’s String Quintet in C, D.956. With James Ehnes and Tessa Lark, violin, Yura Lee, viola, Clive Greensmith and Alisa Weilerstein, cello. Streaming package for six concerts from $90 here.

Saturday, August 22

5:30 am ET: Salzburg Festival & Medici TV present Christian Thielemann conducts Bruckner. The Wiener Philharmoniker plays Bruckner's Fourth Symphony under the direction of Christian Thielemann. Known as the “Romantic” Symphony, this remains one of Bruckner's most widely beloved works. View here and on demand. LIVE

2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live From London presents The Swingles. For more than half a century, The Swingles have pushed the boundaries of vocal music. The seven young singers that make up today’s London-based group are driven by the same innovative spirit. The program connects the group’s first Bach experiments with new original songs and cutting-edge technology, taking in influences from jazz, pop, and folk music traditions along the way. Tickets $16 and view here.

2 pm ET: Dreamstage & Dresden Music Fe stival present Hélène Grimaud & Jan Vogler. The opening night of a new premium ticketed live performance audio/video platform. French pianist Grimaud and German cellist Vogler perform a program of Schumann’s Fantasiestücke Op. 73, Brahms’s Cello Sonata Op. 38, and Shostakovich’s Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 40. Tickets $25, register and view here. LIVE

5 pm ET: The Cell and Bright Shiny Things presents Room | to | Breathe: Sound in Sight. Science matters and can help us overcome the many challenges we face on this planet. “Sound | in | Sight” celebrates the beauty of earth, the truth about its fragility and the reason that can guide us through. Part of all proceeds benefit Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization that uses science to solve the planet’s most pressing problems. Tickets $25 here and the concert is repeated at 8 pm ET.

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Rossini’s Il Barbieri di Siviglia. Starring Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Leo Nucci, Enzo Dara, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, conducted by Ralf Weikert. From December 3, 1988. View here until 12 pm ET, August 16.

8 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Great Performers in Recital from Tanglewood. Hosted by Nicole Cabell. Longtime collaborators violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk play Beethoven’s Spring and Kreutzer sonatas. Cost of event: $12. View and purchase tickets here. LIVE

8 pm ET: LA Chamber Orchestra presents LACO SummerFest #4. Program: Corrette’s Le Phenix Quartet, Neubauer’s Duet for Two Cellos in B-flat, Opus 10, Mozart’s Four Canons, and A Hollywood Tribute, featuring Gershwin’s Summertime, Raskin’s Laura (composed for the 1944 film noir), and Gounod’s The Funeral March of the Marionettes (theme music for TV’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents). With Kenneth Munday and Damian Montano, bassoons, Armen Ksajikian and Giovanna Clayton, cellos. View here and on demand.

9 pm ET: Houston Symphony presents Live from Jones Hall: Mozart & Mazzoli. Taking its cue from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Mazzoli’s concerto for bass (Dark with Excessive Bright) spins baroque idioms into a hypnotic fusion of sounds and styles. Robin Kesselman is the soloist. Mozart’s Symphony No. 38, “Prague” concludes the concert. Tickets $10. Register for link to view here. LIVE

10 pm ET: La Jolla Music Festival presents A Night at the Symphony. Program: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36 (arr. for piano trio) and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (arr. for solo piano by Inon Barnatan). With Inon Barnatan, piano, Tessa Lark, violin, and Clive Greensmith, cello. Streaming package for six concerts from $90 here.

Sunday, August 23

12 pm ET: Glyndebourne Open House presents Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. A theatrical fantasy based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Purcell’s score brings everything from English choral writing to Italian laments and French dances together in a rich musical tapestry. Jonathan Kent’s production opens up a 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to reveal the contemporary magic within. With conductor William Christie and a cast including Lucy Crowe, Carolyn Sampson, and Ed Lyon. View here until August 30.

2 pm ET: Dreamstage presents James Ehnes & Inon Barnatan. Canadian violinist Ehnes and pianist Barnatan perform a program of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8, Op. 30 No. 3, Fauré’s Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 13, and Schubert’s Fantasy D. 934. Tickets $25, register and view here. LIVE

2:30 pm ET: Tanglewood Online Festival presents Encore Performance. Hosted by Jamie Bernstein. For decades, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season has concluded with a Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. This concert features the orchestra’s most recent performance, led by BSO guest conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. Register free and view here.

3 pm ET: Perspectives Ensemble presents Wendy Sutter. The cellist plays Suites Nos. 1 to 3 of Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites livestreamed from Judson Memorial Church, New York City. Sutter plays Suites Nos. 4 to 6 at 6 pm. Register for free and view here.

3 pm ET: Carolyn Enger presents Musical Relief From New Jersey Lawn. Pianist Carolyn Enger offers a socially distanced lawn event for locals where listeners can bring a chair and enjoy her playing from her open window in Englewood, NJ. Program includes Bach’s Prelude in C, Glass’s Etude No. 2, Grieg’s Arietta, Pärt’s Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka, Debussy’s Revêrie, and music by Beethoven and Schubert. To attend, email here or view livestream here.

6 pm ET: Perspectives Ensemble presents Wendy Sutter. The cellist plays Suites Nos. 4 to 6 of Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites livestreamed from Judson Memorial Church, New York City. Register for free and view here.

6 pm ET: La Jolla Music Festival presents Beethoven & Mendelssohn. Program: Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A, Op. 69 and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49. With Yura Lee, violin, Alisa Weilerstein, cello, and Inon Barnatan, piano. Streaming package for six concerts from $90 here.

6:30 pm ET: Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival at Home presents Boccherini & Mendelssohn. Program: Boccherini’s Flute Quintet in G and Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor, Op. 3. With Marya Martin, flute, Frank Huang, violin, Richard O'Neill, viola, Paul Watkins, Peter Stumpf, cello, and Orion Weiss, piano. View here. LIVE

7:30 pm ET: Nightly Met Opera Streams presents Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel (Classic Telecast). Starring Judith Blegen, Frederica von Stade, Jean Kraft, Rosalind Elias, and Michael Devlin, conducted by Thomas Fulton. From December 25, 1982. View here and for 24 hours.

8 pm ET: Grand Teton Music Festival presents Music From The Mountains. Program: George Walker’s String Quartet No. 1, 2nd Movement, Beethoven’s Quartet in F, Op. 18, No. 1, 1st Movement, and Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 with violinists Christopher Pulgram and Sissi Yuqing Zhang, violist Paul Murphy, and Daniel Laufer on cello; Haydn’s London Trio No. 3 in G, Hob. IV:3 with Christina Smith, flute, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe, and Andrew Brady, bassoon. View here. LIVE

Monday, August 24

8 am ET: Edinburgh International Festival presents Catriona Morison & Malcolm Martineau. Mezzo soprano Catriona Morison and pianist Malcolm Martineau perform songs and lieder by Purcell, Viardot, Schumann, Britten, and Lewis Murphy. View here and on demand. LIVE

2 pm ET: DG Stage presents Virtual Bayreuth Festival: Das Rheingold. In 1976, Patrice Chéreau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but, by the end of its last performance in 1980, this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause. Pierre Boulez’s conducting and an outstanding cast with Donald McIntyre, Gwyneth Jones, Manfred Jung, Peter Hofmann, Jeannine Altmeyer and many others also contributed to the legendary status of this production. Tickets 4.90 Euros here and view for 48 hours. 

2 pm ET: Dreamstage presents Gil Shaham & Adele Anthony. Violinist Gil Shaham, his wife violinist Adele Anthony, and pianist Eri Kang perform a program that includes Bach/Brahms arranged for two violins, the Presto from Sonata BWV 1001, selections from Wieniawski’s Etudes-Caprices, Op. 18, Tchaikovsky’s Meditation from Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher Op. 42, Stravinsky’s Danse Russe, and Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 56. Tickets $25, register and view here. LIVE 

2 pm ET: Salzburg Festival & Medici TV present Daniel Barenboim plays Beethoven. Daniel Barenboim celebrates the 70th anniversary of his Buenos Aires performance debut as well as Beethoven's 250th birthday live from the Großes Festspielhaus. Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat is followed by the Diabelli Variations. View here. LIVE

4 pm ET: CHQ Assembly presents Chautauqua Chamber Music: Ying Quartet. Ying Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, "Serioso" and Dvorák’s String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 51, “Slavonic.”. Register for a 90-day free trial here. 

7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Rigoletto. Starring Diana Damrau, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczala, Željko Lucic, and Štefan Kocán, conducted by Michele Mariotti. From February 16, 2013. View here and for 24 hours. 

7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Episode 1: All-Bach. Les Délices new live streamed early music-focused variety show is designed as a salon experience for the 21st century. Bach’s music is at once joyful and serious, accessible and intellectual. Perhaps most importantly, it feeds the soul in troubled times. SalonEra’s debut episode features Sherezade Panthaki (soprano), Shelby Yamin (violin) and Artists in Residence including Eric Milnes (keyboard) and Mélisande Corriveau (viola da gamba and cello). Suggested donation $10 and 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.

American Composer’s Orchestra
Volume 2 of Connecting ACO Community (June 7 - July 19, 2020) commissioned six short works for solo instrument or voice. Each composer was offered $500 to write the work, and each performer was offered $500 to perform the work, with the rights to stream for six months. Recorded sessions are available here.

American Opera Project
American Opera Project presents AOPTV: Opera Comes Home, three world premiere English-language productions. As One is a chamber opera by composer Laura Kaminsky, librettist Mark Campbell and librettist/filmmaker Kimberly Reed in which two voices trace a transgender protagonist from her youth in a small town to Norway. Three Way, with music by Robert Paterson and libretto by David Cote, is an opera on the present and future of sex and love comprised. Harriet Tubman, with music and libretto by Nkeiru Okoye, tells how a young girl born in slavery becomes Harriet Tubman, the legendary Underground Railroad conductor. View here.

American Symphony Orchestra
American Symphony Orchestra presents ASO Online. Each Wednesday, for as long as live performances are not possible, the ASO will release a recording from its archives. Content will alternate weekly 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 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.

Australian Chamber Orchestra
ACO HomeCasts is an innovative digital content season curated by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, and with an emphasis on content that reflects the ACO’s artistry, dynamism, and sense of adventure. Musicians have been equipped with a mini in-home studio and training, enabling them to record, produce, and broadcast content directly from their homes. This includes full-length ACO concerts broadcast as Facebook Watch Parties hosted by an ACO musician, intimate solo performances filmed live from musicians’ homes, and “Ask-Me-Anything” Instagram interviews. Each week’s schedule is announced Monday mornings here.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
BSO musicians are putting live-streamed concerts on the orchestra’s Facebook page on Wednesday and Sunday nights “for the near future.”

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.

Budapest Festival Orchestra Quarantine Soirées
Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer has created a new concert series in response to the worldwide musical shutdown. The Quarantine Soirées are LIVE and free to view online. Visit here for details of upcoming concerts.

Carnegie Hall
Live with Carnegie Hall features live performances, storytelling, and conversations that offer deeper insights and behind-the-scenes personal perspectives. In addition to live conversation and/performance, Live with Carnegie Hall programming will integrate historical or recent audio/video content drawn from concerts, master classes, and recordings. In most of the programs, artists will engage with viewers in real time via social media. A schedule will be found on carnegiehall.org/live.

Classical Movements Vox Virtual
An online a cappella festival from August 22-29 features nine professional vocal ensembles from around the world in daily livestreamed concerts, interviews and workshops. He lineup includes Cantus (USA), Insingizi (Zimbabwe), Olga Vocal Ensemble (Iceland and Netherlands), Nairyan Vocal Ensemble (Armenia), The Swingles (United Kingdom), Les Itinérantes (France), Accent (International), Ensemble Rustavi (Georgia) and Anúna (Ireland). Over the course of the week, ensembles will livestream five free concerts, each featuring two ensembles, and one finale concert featuring all nine. More details here.

The Cleveland Orchestra
The Cleveland Orchestra is offering archival videos, daily Mindful Music Moments videos, and videos from musicians performing from home. For information and to view visit here.

Cliburn at Home
Cliburn Watch Party relives some of the best moments of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Cliburn Kids explores rhythm, storytelling, dance, and listening games in short entertaining, and educational journeys. Cliburn Amateur Spotlight are performance videos submitted by the 72 who were accepted as competitors for the 2020 Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition (rescheduled to 2022). View here.

Daniel Hope
In Hope@Home on Tour, British violinist Daniel Hope took his livestreamed TV series out of his Berlin living room and on the road. The 27 half-hour episodes of live musical performance and conversation in English, all professionally produced for the German/French ARTE TV network, were filmed at a succession of visually compelling locations, many of which are not open to the public. All episodes have now been archived until October 31 in the ARTE Media Library 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. Interesting 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 really 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.

NEW: International Keyboard Institute & Festival
IKIF 2020 is making archival content available for free. Among the performing artists are Jerome Rose, Marc-André Hamelin, Alessio Bax, Jeffrey Swann, Alon Goldstein, Arnaldo Cohen, and Alexander Kobrin. August celebrates the 22nd Season with the premiere of an archival video of IKIF Founder/Director Jerome Rose in concert at IKIF 2000 and 2002 from the stage of the Festival’s original home, Mannes School of Music. The repertoire includes works of Mozart, Liszt and Schubert.
 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. Click here to to register, view and for further details.

Lincoln Center
From the archives of Lincoln Center’s resident organizations comes a trove of video, including rarely seen footage from decades of Live from Lincoln Center, more recent performances from across campus, and live streams from wherever performances are still happening. In addition, Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom broadcasts on Facebook Live every weekday at 10 am ET and is led by some of the world’s best artists and educators. Finally, #ConcertsForKids teams up with top artists to bring world-class performances and diverse musical perspectives from their homes to yours. Explore upcoming calendar here.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents free LACO AT HOME streaming and on demand performances, including a full showing of the orchestra’s critically acclaimed performance last fall featuring the 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.

Mark Morris Dance Group
The Brussels Years, 1988-1991, is a series of on-demand archival collections that rediscover dances from the earlier years of the MMDG. The Brussels Years includes three dances Morris choreographed when he was Director of Dance at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the national opera house of Belgium, plus introductions of each work by Morris himself. The first dance, Pas de Poisson (1990), choreographed for three dancers to music by Erik Satie, is collection from its BAM premiere. Love Song Waltzes (1989) is set to Brahms’s song cycle of the same title and recorded at its Brussels premiere. The excerpt of Wonderland (1989) is from its premiere also at the Theatre Varia in Brussels. Performed only twice in the company’s history, Wonderland is a danse noir set to music by Schoenberg. Mikhail Baryshnikov performs in both Pas de Poisson and Wonderland. Explore here.

Metropolitan Opera Free Student Streams
Students and teachers worldwide can draw from the Met’s online library of operas and curricular materials plus new conversations with Met artists and educators. Resource materials will be made available weekly via the Met website starting on Mondays at 10 am ET, including extensive background information; activities to help students engage before, during, and after the performance stream; illustrated synopses; coloring pages; and audio clips. On Wednesdays at 5 pm ET, each week’s performance will be made available for streaming on the Met website, where it will remain for 48 hours. An hour before each performance stream, students from around the world will have the opportunity to interact directly with a singer or member of the creative team on Zoom. 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
National Sawdust has launched Live@NationalSawdust, a free digital platform offering concerts from the past five seasons and professional development programs from Renée Fleming, Meredith Monk and others, and including fundraising efforts for National Sawdust and the artists involved. Initial releases will focus on the very first concert in the venue from October 2015, including performances by Philip Glass, Foday Musa Suso, Tanya Tagaq, Chris Thile, Nico Muhly, Nadia Sirota, Jeffrey Zeigler, Eve Gigliotti, Paola Prestini, Nels Cline, Glenn Kotche, Theo Bleckmann, ACME and more.

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 are making 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.

Opera Philadelphia Digital Festival O
Opera Philadelphia premiered an online digital festival of new and classic works with four of the operas are available on demand. The Pedro Almodóvar-inspired staging of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville can be watched through June 29, while Daniel Bernard Roumain’s We Shall Not Be Moved, Lembit Beecher’s Sky On Swings (starring Frederica von Stade and Marietta Simpson), and Missy Mazzoli’s award-winning Breaking the Waves are available through August 31. Explore here.

Opera Saratoga: Connect Daily
In place of its planned 2020 Summer Festival, June, July and August will see Opera Saratoga feature performances by Festival Artists, premiering every morning at 9 am ET. Each month is dedicated to a different theme with July featuring Beethoven art song including many of his settings of folk melodies from around the world and scenes Fidelio. August will feature songs and ensembles from musicals by Stephen Sondheim, who celebrated his 90th birthday this year. View here and on demand.

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. **

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra are offering new ways to engage with the music and musicians of the Orchestra. Through WATCH, LISTEN, LEARN the Virtual Philadelphia Orchestra will fulfill its ongoing commitment to bring music, in video and audio forms, as well as interactive education and enrichment, to audiences. Content is available here.

Seattle Symphony
Seattle Symphony is rebroadcasting concerts on Thursday and Saturday evenings. In addition, Morning Notes on YouTube or Facebook features solo performances by individual musicians.

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, with founder Harry Christophers, has 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’ 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 Sir James 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.

Tulsa Opera
Tulsa Opera has launched its Staying Alive web series, which includes virtual performances of opera, popular music, and musical theater, directly from guest artists’ homes. Each week, the series features artists from around the world, including artists that have been recently heard on the Tulsa Opera stage or would have been heard in the company’s new production of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, cancelled due to the pandemic. New content appears every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 2 pm CT. 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

Archived Recent Performances

The following broadcast events have occurred since the start of the COVID-19 crisis and are still available for viewing:

March 12

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed BeethovenNOW: Symphonies 5 & 6 as well as Iman Habibi’s Jeder Baum Spricht to an empty Verizon Hall for live broadcast. An outstanding concert captured in excellent visuals and sound. www.philorch.org/live

Miller Theater’s Bach Collection was performed live for a virtual audience. The program included Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (arr. Hess), Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060 (arr. Fischer), Chorale Prelude Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (arr. Busoni), and Cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, with Kady Evanyshyn, mezzo-soprano, Rebecca Fischer, violin, Alecia Lawyer, oboe, Simone Dinnerstein, piano, Baroklyn. View here.

March 14

Canadian pianist Garrick Ohlsson played an impressive selection of works by Beethoven, Prokofiev (the Sixth Sonata), and Chopin to an empty house at New York’s 92nd Street Y. View here.

March 16

In front of an empty auditorium (very visible thanks to excellent camerawork) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Forth Worth Symphony Music Director Miguel Harth Bedoya in dynamic performances of Bloch's Schelomo with soloist Timo-Veikko Valve, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. Available here.

March 26

92nd St. Y presents Jonathan Biss playing Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas. Written, as Beethoven said, “in a single breath,” these pieces represent the apotheosis of his piano writing, showing his mastery of the variation form (in Op. 109), his expertise in the forms of the musical past (the fugue, in Op. 110), and an ability to be cutting-edge (considering Op. 111 as a whole, but especially the famous ‘boogie woogie’ moments in the second movement). Available here.

April 10

Handel’s Messiah with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square and soloists Amanda Woodbury, Tamara Mumford, Tyler Nelson, and Tyler Simpson. Recorded in 2018 but archived for a rainy day such as this. Available here.

April 10

Bach's St. John Passion, performed by Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki from the Cologne Philharmonic. View here.

April 14

92^nd St Y presents Marc-André Hamelin who streamed a characteristically elegant program from his home, with the timely inclusion of Liszt's Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude. The repertoire also included C. P. E. Bach, Enescu, Fauré, Scriabin, and six selections from Debussy's Preludes, Book II. View here.

May 8

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s European Concert. In order to comply with social distancing rules and hygiene requirements Kirill Petrenko conducts the orchestra in chamber music formation from the empty Philharmonie Berlin. Federal President Steinmeier to deliver opening address. Program: Pärt’s Fratres, Ligeti’s Ramifications, Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (arrangement for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein) with Christiane Karg, soprano. Subscribe or trial for free and view in the Digital Concert Hall.

June 28

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra presented MTT25: An Online Tribute for Michael Tilson Thomas. Hosted by famed vocalists Audra McDonald and Susan Graham, the event featured contributions and tributes by musicians of the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, an array of distinguished guest artists, and many surprises. View here.

June 30

Live At Carnegie Hall presented Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov discussing his career with fellow pianists Emanuel Ax and Sergei Babayan and the venue’s Executive and Artistic Director Sir Clive Gillinson. Interspersed with excerpts from Trifonov’s performances, one newly recorded at home and others previously captured at Carnegie Hall. On demand here.

**Highly recommended