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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.

Barbara Hannigan sings works by Schönberg, Webern, Berg, Zemlinsky, A. Mahler, and Wolf in a recital with Reinbert de Leeuw. I believe they’re touring this program in North America currently but you can hear an earlier performance in deferred broadcast Tuesday, November 7 on Ö1.*

Mark Padmore sings works by Schumann, Fauré, and Hahn in a recital with Imogen Cooper. Tuesday, November 7 on NPO Radio 4.*

Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina (1625) is considered the earliest surviving opera composed by a woman. I can’t say I am familiar with any of the artists in this production from the Herne Ancient Music Days but my interest is piqued by the work’s age, plot (presumably based on the same material as Handel’s Alcina), and historical significance as an early work by a female composer. Saturday, November 11 on WDR 3.

Fans of Marie-Nicole Lemieux may want to catch her in the title role of Rossini’s Tancredi. Saturday, November 11 on Klara.

Joyce DiDonato’s debut performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, singing La Canzona dei Ricordi by Giuseppe Martucci, was already broadcast by WFMT earlier this year; if you missed it, perhaps you’ll want to catch this repeat. Monday, November 13 CORRECTION: this program airs Sunday night, November 12, local time, on WFMT; it’s listed early in the morning of Monday, November 13 on World Concert Hall because WCH lists all concerts in GMT.

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.

On this week’s cruise through the WCH listings, it happened to be the sopranos’ names that caught my eye.

If you can’t get enough of Renée Fleming singing Strauss with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic—considering that their Proms outing is still available on demand—you are in luck: their performance of the same program in Helsinki is scheduled for broadcast Friday, September 8 on Yle Radio 1.

My personal pick of the week is Sunhae Im singing a variety of Italian baroque works with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. On the menu are unspecified pieces by Francesco Cavalli, Luigi Rossi, Salomone Rossi and Alessandro Stradella. Sunday, September 10 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

I keep hearing great things about Elsa Dreisig but I haven’t heard her sing yet. One opportunity: Dreisig sings Haydn’s Creation along with established stars Mark Padmore and Florian Boesch and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Sunday, September 10 on SRF 2 Kultur. 

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.

Julius Drake i Mark Padmore (Sant Pau Recinte Modernista) 29 d’abril de 2025. Life Victoria Foto ©IFL Ahir en el Sant Pau recinte modernista va tenir lloc una altra de les sessions del Life Victoria, amb una “Schumanníada” que va tenir com a preludi i ja és habitual d’ençà que el director artístic del festival era Enric Martínez-Castignani i que l’actual direcció ha mantingut, la presentació del…

Late-breaking concert broadcast this weekend! This Saturday, March 9, France Musique will broadcast a concert recorded in live performance last fall with Thomas Adès conducting the Orchestre de Paris. The works on the program are Berlioz’ Ouverture des Francs-Juges, Adès’ Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra, and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. The latter features vocal soloists Michelle Bradley, Sarah Connolly, Mark Padmore, and John Relyea. Here’s a link to the concert listing on World Concert Hall where I spotted it.