The new series, Carnegie Hall Selects, celebrates great artists, composers, and musical works that have had a central role as part of Carnegie Hall's history.
Beginning this Friday, May 14, Carnegie Hall will offer weekly free full-length concert streams via carnegiehall.org, featuring legendary classical musicians in inspirational performances from some of the finest concert halls around the world. The new series, Carnegie Hall Selects, celebrates great artists, composers, and musical works that have had a central role as part of Carnegie Hall's history. A new Carnegie Hall Selects program will be offered each Friday throughout the summer.
For the first four weeks of the series-in conjunction with the 130th anniversary of Carnegie Hall's opening-streamed concerts will include music by Tchaikovsky as well as works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner that were featured during the Hall's Opening Week Festival in May 1891. The original five-day opening festival featured the New York Symphony Orchestra and Oratorio Society of New York, conducted by Walter Damrosch and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the most famous composers of the day, who received a personal invitation to appear in New York City from Andrew Carnegie himself.Featured Carnegie Hall Selects streams in May/early June include:From 1967, conductor Herbert von Karajan leading the Berliner Philharmoniker in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Alexis Weissenberg at the Berlin Philharmonie.
Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Berlin Philharmonie in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in 1972.
From 1976, Sir Georg Solti leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and conductor Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with soloist Itzhak Perlman at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in 1979.
From the 2006 Salzburg Festival: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Bo Skovhus (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Anna Netrebko (Susanna), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Figaro), Christine Schäfer (Cherubino), Franz-Josef Selig (Bartolo), and Eva Liebau (Barbarina), directed by Claus Guth.
Each new Carnegie Hall Selects program will be made available each Friday beginning at 12:00 p.m. (EST) and will be available for free on-demand viewing for one week on carnegiehall.org.
Thursday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. (EST), the Live with Carnegie Hall streaming series-featuring music and conversation with leading artists-returns with Voices of Hope Revisited, a special episode recapping Carnegie Hall's first-ever online festival which explored the life-affirming power of music and the arts during times of crisis. Audiences will revisit the Hall's two-week April 2021 festival, including highlights by Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, Ute Lemper, the National Symphony Orchestra, Jason Moran, Kronos Quartet, and many other artists whose performances featured music that inspires change and lifts the human spirit.
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