medici.tv streams Toulouse Orchestra live, today & tomorrow
Today and tomorrow, May 21 and 22, medici.tv will stream performances by Tugan Sokhiev and the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse live from Buenos Aires, with webcasts of two concerts at the hallowed Teatro Colón. On the May 21 program are Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, as well as Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G played by rising star Bertrand Chamayou. Sokhiev leads the orchestra the next day in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Prelude to Khovanshchina, and Chamayou joins the musicians again as soloist in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto. Chamayou has been praised for his performances of Liszt; his recent naïve recording of the Années de pèlerinage was selected as an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine.
Live on medici.tv next week:
May 21, 2:30pm EDT
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse plays Debussy, Berlioz, and Ravel
Bertrand Chamayou, piano; Tugan Sokhiev, conductor
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
May 22, 2:30pm EDT
Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse plays Mussorgsky and Liszt
Bertrand Chamayou, piano; Tugan Sokhiev, conductor
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
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