Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra come to medici.tv
Daniel Barenboim will conduct the groundbreaking West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Paris’s Salle Pleyel on Saturday, May 21, a concert that will be webcast live at medici.tv beginning 8pm local time (2pm EDT). Two powerful and emotionally gripping works make up the program: the Adagio from Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.” The concert will also be available for free on-demand streaming for 60 days at medici.tv beginning Sunday, May 22. It is also available at www.citedelamusiquelive.fr.
Because music is “the language of peace,” Daniel Barenboim created the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, an orchestra made up of young musicians both Arab and Israeli, and from the Mediterranean region. Having started out as a group that performed only occasionally, the WEDO has now become a permanent orchestra that travels the world, promoting dialogue and peace between Jews and Arabs.
The freshly redesigned, ever-deepening medici.tv has reaped acclaim as one of the web’s leading classical music experiences. In Gramophone’s June issue, editor-in-chief James Jolly details the medici.tv experience at length, marveling over the “treasures aplenty” on the site. The medici.tv app for iPads, iPhones, and other digital devices – available for free at the Apple app store – has just been named one of the top five apps for classical music by WQXR, the classical music station of New York City. As WQXR points out, the medici.tv app “has classical music videos – lots of them. The library of 600 performances allows you to peek inside great European concert halls. Not all the videos are available on the free app, but you can access several hundred recent concerts, including the Louvre’s chamber music series featuring the Pacifica and Takács string quartets.”
Upcoming live events at medici.tv
Saturday, May 21
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Mahler: Adagio from Symphony No. 10; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Thursday, May 26
Auditorium Orchestre National de Lyon, Lyons, France
Violinist Renaud Capucon and the Orchestre National de Lyon under Jun Märkl perform an all-French program of Debussy, Ravel, and Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra.
Still available for streaming at medici.tv
Violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Itamar Golan
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Sonatas by Debussy and Ravel, plus Schubert’s “Grand Duo” and Messiaen’s Theme and Variations
The Takács Quartet
Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France
String quartets by Haydn, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn
Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic
Europa Konzert 2011, Teatro Real Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2; Chabrier’s Espana with flamenco guitarist Canizares, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez
Yundi and Zuohuang Chen perform Liszt and Chopin
National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
Jean-Philippe Collard, piano recital
Salle Colonne, Paris, France
Works by Chopin, Wagner-Liszt’s “Isolde’s Liebestod,” and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor
The Bennewitz Quartet with Arnaud Thorette, viola
Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France
Mozart: String Quintets Nos. 5 in D, K. 593, and 3 in C, K. 515
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Conductor Emmanuel Krivine and La Chambre Philharmonique; Les Eléments Chamber Choir; Christiane Karg, soprano; Carolin Masur, mezzo-soprano; Charles Workman, tenor; Konstantin Wolff, bass
Lang Lang, educational concert
Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Excerpts from works by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Debussy, and Albéniz
Menahem Pressler, piano recital
Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Program includes Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31, Op. 110; three Chopin mazurkas; Debussy’s Estampes; and Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat
Skip Sempé and Pierre Hantaï play Rameau
Cité de la Musique, Paris, France
Les Indes galantes, suite from the opera-ballet, in transcription for two harpsichords
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