Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Piau & Mead (x2); Prina; DiDonato; Gens; and much more
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.
Sandrine Piau and Tim Mead perform arias and duets by Handel in a concert with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. Tuesday, April 16 on France Musique.*
Holy Week always brings a raft of Bach Passions to the live radio offerings. The proprietor of World Concert Hall cites a record number of listings this year, and singers from my list of favorites are popping up as soloists in these concerts all week long. To narrow my recommendation, though, my pick would be this concert: Bach’s St. John Passion with Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. The vocal soloists (slightly adjusted from the performance by the same ensemble this past Sunday, which is available for catch-up listening on the NPO Radio 4 website) are Reinoud Van Mechelen, Alex Rosen, Emmanuelle de Negri, Lucile Richardot, Anthony Gregory, and Renato Dolcini. Live broadcast Wednesday, April 17 on Dwójka.
This broadcast of Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno caught my eye because of the participation of Sonia Prina (in the role of Wisdom). Saturday, April 20 on DR P2 Klassisk.
I can’t actually say I’m familiar with Judith van Wanroij or Deborah Cachet, but I may try to catch them in this live broadcast of Charpentier and Couperin works in a concert with Les Talens Lyriques at the Actus Humanus Festival (the same venue as the Les Arts Florissants concert mentioned above). Saturday, April 20 on Dwójka.
As fans of Joyce DiDonato probably already know, her current Clemenza at the Met is up for broadcast on WQXR this Saturday, April 20, following on the heels of the livestream on the Met’s website that I mentioned in an earlier edition of MMM.
Sandrine Piau and Tim Mead perform a second round of arias and duets by Handel in a concert with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm—presumably a repeat of their program from Aix-en-Provence (see the first item in this list). This time they perform in Geneva and the deferred broadcast of their program will be on Sunday, April 21 on the Swiss station RTS Espace 2.
Véronique Gens and Reinoud van Mechelen lead the cast of Lully’s Armide in a concert performance with Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet. Deferred broadcast Sunday, April 21 on France Musique.*
Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on stations known to me to have a history of making concerts available for listening on demand for at least a week after the initial broadcast.