Virtual concertgoing (7)

After a hiatus of several months, another set of live performances archived on YouTube, this set featuring orchestral works:

Daniel Barenboim conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Eroica”) and Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, with András Schiff as soloist, played without an audience on Nov. 15 at the Berlin State Opera House (the performance begins at 27:55):


Vasily Petrenko conducting the Oslo Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor in a 2019 performance at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg:


Edward Gardner conducting the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth Chorus in Holst’s “The Planets,” a 2016 performance at the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall:


Manfred Honeck conducting the WDR Sinfonie Orchester of Cologne in a 2019 performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor:


Dima Slobodeniouk conducting Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in a 2018 performance of Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 (“Inextinguishable”):

Kevin John Edusei conducting Chineke! a British-based orchestra primarily composed of black and Asian musicians, in “Black Legacies,” in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “African Suite,” Florence Beatrice Price’s Piano Concerto in one movement, with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason as soloist, the premiere of “Remnants” by James B. Wilson and Yomi Sode, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor:

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