Your ideal concert

[Florestan]

Please specify: venue, interpreter/s (alive or dead, doesn't matter, but try to avoid anachronisms), program.

For me, today:

Athenee Concert Hall, Bucharest, Romania

George Enescu, violin
Alfred Cortot, piano

Schumann - Violin Sonata No. 2
Franck - Violin Sonata
Enescu - Violin Sonata No. 3

[The Mad Hatter]

Hey, good thread idea. I haven't got anything just yet (trying to keep the music great, but limit it to a concert's-worth).

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Mahler: Symphony No. 8

The Berlin Philharmonic, Benjamin Britten. Don't really have enough experience listening to choral music to choose choirs for it, though...

And as a soloist for the songs...Lucia Popp.

[toro913]

Heifetz, violin

Brahms: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No. 5

Chicago Symphony, Solti

[George]

One in which there is no noisy program to rattle, one where everyone has to check their cell phone at the door, sit on their hands motionless during the performance and have a note from their doctor that says that they do not have a cold or any other condition that may cause them to suddenly cough. Jeeze I'm gettin' old.

[mahlertitan]

One in which there is no noisy program to rattle, one where everyone has to check their cell phone at the door, sit on their hands motionless during the performance and have a note from their doctor that says that they do not have a cold or any other condition that may cause them to suddenly cough. Jeeze I'm gettin' old.

isn't that everyone's ideal concert?

[George]

isn't that everyone's ideal concert?

Right, lock the thread. 

[The Mad Hatter]

isn't that everyone's ideal concert?

Not John Cage's...Whaddaya say, George? Include 4'33" in the programme?

[George]

Not John Cage's...Whaddaya say, George? Include 4'33" in the programme?

Yes, touche'! 

[hornteacher]

Please specify: venue, interpreter/s (alive or dead, doesn't matter, but try to avoid anachronisms), program.

Hmmm, it would be a LONG concert but the program would run like this:

Sir Charles Mackerras (with any orchestra he wants)

Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Appalachian Spring (chamber version)
Mendelssohn's VC (with Hilary Hahn as soloist)

Intermission 1

Mozart Clarinet Concerto (Martin Frost as soloist)
Dvorak's Cello Concerto (Peter Bruns as soloist)

Intermission 2

Beethoven's 9th

[dsch]

I would love to see Gustav Mahler conducting his own music.

[The Mad Hatter]

I would love to see Gustav Mahler conducting his own music.

That too. A second one for me, a bit more fantastically:

Liszt, Piano Concerto (either one)

Interval

Mahler: Symphony No. 3

The Vienna Opera Orchestra, Gustav Mahler.
With Franz Liszt as soloist.

[mahlertitan]

I would love to see Gustav Mahler conducting his own music.

i would like to see gustav mahler

[marvinbrown]

   I would love to hear Chopin (himself) play the Nocturnes ....what a night that would be.  They say that when Chopin used to play the piano, people would gather outside his house just to hear him play. 

  marvin

[The Mad Hatter]

i would like to see gustav mahler

He looks a lot like Giles from Buffy.

[BachQ]

Rach perform his 3rd Piano Concerto
Prokofiev perform his 3rd Piano Concerto
Mahler conduct his 2nd/3rd Symphony
Strauss conduct his Alpine Symphony or Also Sprach

[Don]

   I would love to hear Chopin (himself) play the Nocturnes ....what a night that would be.  They say that when Chopin used to play the piano, people would gather outside his house just to hear him play. 

  marvin

Even better, and more unlikely, would be Bach playing his WTC.  Which instrument would he pick?  Harpsichord, of course.

[MishaK]

While we're having fantasy concerts with dead people, how about:

Brahms Violin Sonatas; Hilary Hahn, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

[marvinbrown]

Even better, and more unlikely, would be Bach playing his WTC.  Which instrument would he pick?  Harpsichord, of course.

   Yes Don! of course Herr J.S. Bach, the greatest keyboard player of them all.  How could I have missed that!  After he is done playing the WTC (I will insist on hearing both Books) perhaps he can dazzle us by playing the Goldberg Variations, again on harsichord and ONLY on harpsichord  .

  marvin

[Symphonien]

I'd like to hear Bach play something on the piano!

[MishaK]

I'd like to hear Bach play something on the piano!

Yes. I think, given the option, he would prefer the expressive opportunities of the piano over the tinny harpsichord. Consider that Bach was one of the greatest choral composers of all times. Surely he would appreciate an instrument more capable of "singing" a line than one that merely mechanically plucks.