Mostly mezzo Mondays: rarities with DiDonato and Desandre, recitals with Padmore and Gens
Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.
This week’s list has two themes: rarely-performed works with notable performers and recitals by singers whose work I’m not very familiar with, but who are liked by people who also like singers I like (can you follow that?).
Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles perform Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. Thursday, May 4 on Radio Clásica.
The rarely-performed French baroque opera Alcione, with a cast led by up-and-comers Lea Desandre and Cyril Auvity, will be livestreamed from the Opera Comique (performance info here). Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations performing the music by Marin Marais. Saturday, May 6 on Culturebox. (Video livestream of a fully staged opera.)
Schubert’s Mass No. 5 in A Major might or might not count as “rare” but I don’t think it’s very commonly performed. A recent performance by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with standout soloists (Genia Kühmeier, Claudia Huckle, Benjamin Bruns, and Matthew Rose) will be broadcast Saturday, May 6 on Kulturradio RBB.
Joyce DiDonato made her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last fall singing a work that was also new to the CSO: “La Canzone dei Ricordi,” a song cycle by Giuseppe Martucci. (Review here; full program in PDF here.) Sunday, May 7 on WFMT.
Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff perform a program of French song in a short lunchtime recital at the Wigmore Hall. Monday, May 8 on BBC Radio 3.
