On Nov. 4 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, a series of webcasts will be streamed from Carnegie Hall on medici.tv, the first is a recital by Joyce DiDonato, accompanied by David Zobel. The program is “A Journey Through Venice," tracing a musical arc from Vivaldi and Rossini to Venice-inspired songs by Fauré and Reynaldo Hahn; and 20th-century British composer Michael Head’s "Three Songs of Venice."
This new partership between Carnegie Hall and medici.tv offers four other free webcasts (registration is required): Anne-Sophie Mutter (Nov. 18), Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang (Nov. 22), and Daniil Trifonov (Dec. 9).
Mutter will lead The Mutter Virtuosi, in a program that includes the U.S. premiere of André Previn’s Violin Concerto No. 2 as well as Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Violinist Leonidas Kavakos and pianist Yuja Wang perform music by Schumann, Brahms, Respighi, and Stravinsky. The series of webcasts from Carnegie Hall ends with Russian piano virtuoso Daniil Trifonov in works by Bach (arranged by Liszt), Beethoven and Liszt.
Following each live webcast, free replay of these concerts will be available to online audiences on medici.tv for another 90 days, playable worldwide on all internet-enabled devices, including smart phones, tablets, Chromecast, computers, and smart TVs.
“For music lovers around the world, Carnegie Hall is the hall of fame of classical music," says medici.tv founder and managing director. "Attending a concert in this legendary venue is a dream for many of them. Today, thanks to new technology, this dream becomes reality by allowing them to watch — live and free — a selection of the finest concerts of the season. Our mission and our passion is to bring artists to their audience. medici.tv is proud to inaugurate this partnership, a world premiere for this venerable hall.”