Last summer, much of the Verbier Festival was made available online by medici.tv, in extraordinarily high quality video and audio. (You'll want to use the "full-screen" feature.) This year the offerings have increased, starting today with ten days of concerts from the Aspen Festival followed by Aix-en-Provence beginning June 27. On July 18 the Verbier events will be featured for two weeks.
Just one snapshot: last summer the Verbier Festival Orchestra, an energetic group of talented young players, performed Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with Martha Argerich. I've seen her rip through this piece both live and on video maybe nine or ten times, but never with cameras right at her elbow, or perched overhead for a birds-eye view of her hands skittering across the keyboard. After the broadcast the concert was archived, and I must have watched it three or four times.
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