Your greatest concerts you attended

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cliftwood

Sergie Rachmaninoff's recital in Philadelphia's Academy of Music in 1939.

I've got many more but this one had a great impact on my musical life.

Herman

Quote from: cliftwood on August 10, 2009, 12:42:04 AM
Sergie Rachmaninoff's recital in Philadelphia's Academy of Music in 1939.

I've got many more but this one had a great impact on my musical life.

unfortunately I was unable to be there, being unborn yet (that's three un's).

however this could well turn into a bragging contest.

DavidW

I haven't had the pleasure of seeing major ensembles perform live as much as some of the posters around here have, but there a couple almost occasions that I will never forget, I'll share one of those now.

Gatti and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform Beethoven's 3rd and one of Brahms Piano Concertos, even though I love Brahms PCs I can't remember that part of the performance that well, but the Eroica was the best I heard.  It was just so aggressively played, with the darkest Funeral March I have ever heard.  I was just floored.  How much of that was just hearing someone besides the locals play, I can't say, but I can't say that I absolutely loved it.  It was electric. :)

MichaelRabin

Karajan BPO three times in my life.

1) Bruckner 5 (1981 in London).

2) Beethoven 4, R Strauss Heldenleben (1985 in London) [on Testament CD now]

3) Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht, Brahms 1 (Lucerne in 1988) [similar concert programme on Testament - but this CD is from their London concert]


Sergeant Rock

#4
Just the orchestral concerts in this post. I'll add recitals and chamber concerts later.

Szell/Cleveland Mahler 6, Oct 1967

The Grateful Dead, Nov 1968  ;D

Szell/Cleveland Wagner Lohengrin Prelude I, Mozart PC21 (Curzon), Brahms 4, Sep 1968 (the perfect concert)

Ančerl/Cleveland Dvorak Carnival, Mozart VC5 (Majeske), Smetana Tabor, Janacek Sinfonietta, Sep 1971

Horenstein/New Phil Mozart Don Giovanni Overture, Dvorak Cello Con (Tortelier), Bruckner 6, Jul 1972

Ormandy/Cleveland Mahler 2, Nov 1972

Barenboim/Cleveland Webern 5 Pieces Op.10, Mendelssohn VC (Zukerman), Bruckner 9, Jan 1973

Haitink/Cleveland Mahler 9, Mar 1973

Kubelik/Cleveland Bruckner 8, Apr 1973

Maazel/Cleveland Berlioz B. Cellini Overture, Berlioz Nuits d'étè (von Stade), Mahler 4 (von Stade) Oct 1979

Celibidache/Stuttgart RSO Haydn 104, Bruckner 3, Nov 1980

Celibidache/Munich Phil Mozart 34, Bruckner 3, Mar 1987

Sinopoli/Philharmonia Schubert 4, Bruckner 7, Sep 1987

Segerstam/Staatsphil Rheinland-Pfalz Mahler 6 (with the third hammerblow!), 1993

Maazel/Vienna Phil Mendelssohn 4, Mahler 1, Nov 1994

P.Järvi/Cincinnati Nielsen Maskarde Overture, Beethoven PC4 (Grimaud), Dvorák 7, Nov 2004

Gielen/SWR SO Schönberg Gurrelieder, Oct 2006

P.Järvi/RSO Frankfurt Sibelius Kullervo (Hynninen), Oct 2006

Chailly/Gewandhaus Leipzig Mahler 3, Oct 2006

Barenboim/Staatsk Berlin Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Quasthoff), Mahler 7, Apr 2007

Boulez/Staatsk Berlin Mahler 8, Apr 2007

Maazel/Vienna Phil Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Bruckner 3, Brahms Hungarian Dance 1,  Feb 2010

Sarge


the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Sean

Sarge, Michael & Cliftwood, very nice lists indeed.

Simon Rattle would provide some world class performances in the late 80s, including Petrushka and Mahler 2, and Honegger 3 & Gershwin concerto etc. In around 1985 I went to my first CBSO concert that began with the Pastoral symphony and I was extremely moved. The silence surrounding the entry of the strings at the start and the extreme beauty of the first movement (nothing of the stressed mess he made with the VPO) made it physically difficult for me to contain emotion- amazing aesthetics...

MishaK

#6
off the top of my head....


Emil Gilels playing Beethoven 4th PC in Düsseldorf around 1983 or so

Evgeny Kissin recital Düsseldorf, around 1999

Waltraud Meier/Barenboim/CSO complete Tristan in concert performance at Carnegie 2001 or 2002

Haitink/CSO Mahler 2 1995

Bronfman/Jansons/Concertgebouw Brahms PC1 & Heldenleben around 1998 or so in Amsterdam

Chailly/Concertgebouw Bruckner 7 @ Carnegie 2000

Moravec recital, Carnegie 2001

Jansons/Concertgebouw Shostakovich 7 @ Carnegie 2002

Hahn/Sawallisch/Philadelphia Brahms VC @ Carnegie 2002

Barenboim/CSO Bruckner 4 & 9 on tour in Berlin, Easter 2003

Barenboim/Boulez/CSO Bartok PC 1 & Concerto for Orchestra on tour in Berlin, Easter 2005

Isokoski/C. Davis/NYPO Sibelius 3 & Luonnotar 2006 @ Avery Fisher

Rostropovich/NYPO Shostakovich 10 2006 @ Avery Fisher

Quasthoff/Barenboim/CSO Mahler 5 & Kindertotenlieder, Chicago 2006

Boulez/CSO Stravinsky Petrouchka, Chicago 2007

Luisi/Dresden Brahms 4 on tour Chicago, 2008

Archaic Torso of Apollo

Rozhdestvensky/CSO Shostakovich 10th at Ravinia, 1987

Rattle/CBSO Mahler 9th (prefaced by Turnage's Three Screaming Popes) in Berlin, 1991

Barenboim/CSO Bruckner 7th & Beethoven 8th in Chicago, 1998

Eschenbach/CSO Messiaen Turangalila at Ravinia, 1998

Boulez/CSO Stravinsky Symphony in 3 Movements + several other works, Chicago 1998

Abbado/BPO Mahler 9th + some Nono in NY, 1999

Rattle/Phila., Schoenberg Gurrelieder, Philadelphia 2000

Emerson Quartet, Shostakovich last 3 quartets, NY 2000

T. Sanderling/CzPO, Martinu 4th Symphony + 2 other Martinu works, Prague 2001

Concert of Messiaen, Nancarrow, and Ligeti by various groups at New Music Marathon, Prague 2001

Tuvan throat-singing group Huun-Huur-Tu, Prague 2002

J. Conlon/Rus. Nat'l PO, Mahler 5 + Mozart 36, Moscow 2006




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"Who knows not strict counterpoint, lives and dies an ignoramus" - CPE Bach

secondwind

Berlin Philharmonic, 1974/5 (?)

I was a college student doing a Junior year abroad thing in Germany. On a trip to Berlin, we managed to get student rate (cheap) tickets to a Berlin Philharmonic concert.  I was pretty ignorant then (even more than now  ;)), but even I knew that hearing the BPO was a big deal.  I wish I had saved a program.  All I remember for certain is that there was a Brahms symphony as the major work (no, of course I don't know which one  >:() and that the entire experience and especially the Brahms transported me into a different reality.  It was one of those transformative experiences that gave me a glimpse into what music--and, I suppose, life--could be.  An interesting side point--I had developed a racking chest cough while traveling, and I was worried about coughing all through the concert.  But the music acted like the best narcotic cough medicine.  Not only did I not cough during the performance, I didn't cough for an hour or more after!

MishaK

Quote from: secondwind on August 11, 2009, 03:57:28 AM
Berlin Philharmonic, 1974/5 (?)

I was a college student doing a Junior year abroad thing in Germany. On a trip to Berlin, we managed to get student rate (cheap) tickets to a Berlin Philharmonic concert.  I was pretty ignorant then (even more than now  ;)), but even I knew that hearing the BPO was a big deal.  I wish I had saved a program.  All I remember for certain is that there was a Brahms symphony as the major work (no, of course I don't know which one  >:() and that the entire experience and especially the Brahms transported me into a different reality.  It was one of those transformative experiences that gave me a glimpse into what music--and, I suppose, life--could be.

Who was conducting? Karajan?

Quote from: secondwind on August 11, 2009, 03:57:28 AM
An interesting side point--I had developed a racking chest cough while traveling, and I was worried about coughing all through the concert.  But the music acted like the best narcotic cough medicine.  Not only did I not cough during the performance, I didn't cough for an hour or more after!

Proof positive for my old dictum that the coughers are not sick, but not paying attention.

DavidRoss

McCoy Tyner, Billy Cobham, and Stanley Clarke together at Yoshi's in Oakland a few years back.

The Talking Heads in Berkeley at the Greek during the famous "Stop Making Sense" tour.

The Who in San Diego at the start of their US tour following the release of Tommy.

Most recently, Angela Hewitt playing the complete Goldberg Variations at the Mondavi in Davis.
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DavidW

Quote from: DavidRoss on August 11, 2009, 07:15:08 AM
The Who in San Diego at the start of their US tour following the release of Tommy.

Holy cow! :o

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Most recently, Angela Hewitt playing the complete Goldberg Variations at the Mondavi in Davis.

Man I wish the Mondavi was up and running when I was at UC Davis. :-\

not edward

#12
I think Boulez conducting the LSO in an electrifying Mahler 6 in London in 2000. Either that or Aimard playing the complete Ligeti etudes. Or maybe Alexander Lazarev conducting the RSNO in a devastating Shostakovich 8th in Glasgow in 1996--a performance that so affected the audience that there was about a minute of silence before the applause broke out.

Alternative: the world premiere of Grisey's Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil. There's nothing quite like hearing the first public performance of a piece and, a few minutes in, realizing you're in the presence of true greatness. (The composer having already died and his widow being in attendance just made it all the more itense an experience.)
"I don't at all mind actively disliking a piece of contemporary music, but in order to feel happy about it I must consciously understand why I dislike it. Otherwise it remains in my mind as unfinished business."
-- Aaron Copland, The Pleasures of Music

Bunny

The Beatles - Forest Hills -- August 1964

The Rolling Stones - Hyde Park -- July 1969

The Who (Tommy) - Royal Albert Hall -- July 1969 (same day as the Rolling Stones!)

secondwind

Quote from: O Mensch on August 11, 2009, 04:14:02 AM
Who was conducting? Karajan?
I don't know.  Sigh.  I told you I was ignorant. . .  :'(

MishaK

Quote from: secondwind on August 11, 2009, 01:23:48 PM
I don't know.  Sigh.  I told you I was ignorant. . .  :'(

Yes, but you could have recognized the dude on CD cover pictures later on.  ;)

Bulldog

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on August 10, 2009, 06:26:01 AM
Just the orchestral concerts in this post. I'll add recitals and chamber concerts later.

Szell/Cleveland Mahler 6, Oct 1967

The Grateful Dead, Nov 1968  ;D

Szell/Cleveland Wagner Lohengrin Prelude I, Mozart PC21 (Curzon), Brahms 4, Sep 1968 (the perfect concert)

Ančerl/Cleveland Dvorak Carnival, Mozart VC5 (Majeske), Smetana Tabor, Janacek Sinfonietta, Sep 1971

Horenstein/New Phil Mozart Don Giovanni Overture, Dvorak Cello Con (Tortelier), Bruckner 6, Jul 1972

Ormandy/Cleveland Mahler 2, Nov 1972

Barenboim/Cleveland Webern 5 Pieces Op.10, Mendelssohn VC (Zukerman), Bruckner 9, Jan 1973

Haitink/Cleveland Mahler 9, Mar 1973

Kubelik/Cleveland Bruckner 8, Apr 1973

Maazel/Cleveland Berlioz B. Cellini Overture, Berlioz Nuits d'étè (von Stade), Mahler 4 (von Stade) Oct 1979

Celibidache/Stuttgart RSO Haydn 104, Bruckner 3, Nov 1980

Celibidache/Munich Phil Mozart 34, Bruckner 3, Mar 1987

Sinopoli/Philharmonia Schubert 4, Bruckner 7, Sep 1987

Segerstam/Staatsphil Rheinland-Pfalz Mahler 6 (with the third hammerblow!), 1993

Maazel/Vienna Phil Mendelssohn 4, Mahler 1, Nov 1994

P.Järvi/Cincinnati Nielsen Maskarde Overture, Beethoven PC4 (Grimaud), Dvorák 7, Nov 2004

Gielen/SWR SO Schönberg Gurrelieder, Oct 2006

P.Järvi/RSO Frankfurt Sibelius Kullervo (Hynninen), Oct 2006

Chailly/Gewandhaus Leipzig Mahler 3, Oct 2006

Barenboim/Staatsk Berlin Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Quasthoff), Mahler 7, Apr 2007

Boulez/Staatsk Berlin Mahler 8, Apr 2007

Sarge


I am very impressed with how you remember all of those concert dates.

Joe_Campbell

Quote from: Bulldog on August 11, 2009, 02:06:01 PM
I am very impressed with how you remember all of those concert dates.
He probably kept the programs. ;D

Sergeant Rock

#18
Quote from: Bulldog on August 11, 2009, 02:06:01 PM
I am very impressed with how you remember all of those concert dates.

I don't have to remember actually. I'm a pack rat. I still have many of the programs and I've also kept a journal that includes concert dates.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Sergeant Rock

#19
Quote from: secondwind on August 11, 2009, 01:23:48 PM
I don't know.  Sigh.  I told you I was ignorant. . .  :'(

Quote from: O Mensch on August 11, 2009, 01:58:40 PM
Yes, but you could have recognized the dude on CD cover pictures later on.  ;)

Yes...do you recall if he looked like a lizard? If so, then it was certainly Karajan.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"