If you could conduct for one night

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Drasko

#20
January 04, 2011, 02:14:24 PM
Quote from: Mensch on January 04, 2011, 01:54:29 PM
Baborak, hands down! If you have access to the BPO digital concert hall, there is a recent Glière concerto with him, as well as a Strauss Konzertstück with Baborak playing No.1 and Dohr on No.2.

Don't have access to that but I've heard Baborak live, last season here in Belgrade playing Strauss' 1st (same as Vlatkovic, same as Baumann ::) I've yet to hear Strauss' 2nd live).
Dohr I've heard twice, but not playing solo - both times in Wien-Berlin Ensemble, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for winds and chamber recital Beethoven/Mozart/Ligeti.
I've just posted in the listening thread youtube links for Baborak's recent Strauss' 2nd from Japan (in decent AV). 

Cato

#21
January 04, 2011, 02:22:11 PM Last Edit: January 04, 2011, 04:49:02 PM by Cato

Quote from: Mensch on January 04, 2011, 01:55:59 PM
You want Stewart reciting German?  :o

Who knows? He might be able to pull it off!

Another alternate would be Christopher Lee, who definitely can speak German!  I was startled to hear an interview with him on German television some years ago, when I was visiting das Vaterland.
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

The new erato

#22
January 04, 2011, 02:27:11 PM
In thst case the wife probably would suggest that I should conduct myself.

Superhorn

#23
January 08, 2011, 06:21:53 AM
   I would conduct an all Nielsen program with the Maskarade overture, Helios, the clarinet concerto and end with the Inextinguishable symphony.  I would hope to have one of the world's greatest clarinettists,such as Sabine meyer.
  That would be some program ! 





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Octo_Russ

#24
January 10, 2011, 05:21:35 PM
I would love to conduct the Berliner Philharmoniker, 

Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter festival Overture
Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto, with Maurizio Pollini pianist
Beethoven's 3rd Symphony.
I'm a Musical Octopus, I Love to get a Tentacle in every Genre of Music. http://octoruss.blogspot.com/

Mirror Image

#25
January 10, 2011, 07:11:56 PM Last Edit: January 10, 2011, 07:16:03 PM by Mirror Image
I would be conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Here is the program:

Revueltas: Sensemaya
Chavez: Sinfonia India (Symphony No. 2)

Intermission

Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 11 (w/ Martha Argerich as soloist)

Encore:


Ginastera: Dances from the ballet "Estancia"

This will be a night of Latin American fire and fury. Hopefully, it will turn audiences onto exploring this much neglected area of classical music.



mahler10th

#26
January 12, 2011, 03:03:43 AM
And tonight, exclusively on GMG, the Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted by John Copeland, who has also chosen the program.    :-\
He starts off with a Gorecki piece, Amen, in which he invites Harry Christophers to perform this with the complete choir of the the Vienna Singers.  Well, that's a right holy way to start any program and one wonders why he chooses Anton Bruckners 9th (unfinished) to follow. Bruckners ninth, usually the final showpiece of the concret reportoire, is here stuck in the middle, and needs something of gargantuan proportions to follow.
Something gargantuan does follow.
Copeland holds a finely balanced stick to conduct Mahlers 8th for the finale.  He's been chizeling his baton for this one, and everyone expects the most memorable Mahlers 8th ever.  He has even drafted in the Glasgow Phoenix choir to add "intensity".

Time:  7.30
Venue:  GMG in Vienna
John Copeland and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Harry Christophers and Chorus of Vienna Singers

Amen - Gorecki
Ninth Symphony - Bruckner
Break
Sibelius 7th

Musical Advisors to  the Conductor:  Karl Henning, Antonio Vivaldi
Encore:  Mahler (attr) - Symphonic Prelude

Sergeant Rock

#27
January 12, 2011, 03:19:09 AM
Quote from: John on January 12, 2011, 03:03:43 AM
Copeland holds a finely balanced stick to conduct Mahlers 8th for the finale....Sibelius 7th

A typo? or has there been a last minute change to the program?

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"

mahler10th

#28
January 12, 2011, 03:27:31 AM Last Edit: January 12, 2011, 03:30:22 AM by John
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 12, 2011, 03:19:09 AM
A typo? or has there been a last minute change to the program?

Sarge

LOL   I was listening to Sibelius 7 at the time (Bernstien - NYPO) and have somehow transposed it.  I will contact some Copy Writers in Vienna to get that fixed.

Prev:
Amen - Gorecki
Ninth Symphony - Bruckner
Break
Sibelius 7th

Copyist Correction:
Amen - Gorecki
Ninth Symphony - Bruckner
Break
Eighth Symphony - Mahler

Musical Advisors to  the Conductor:  Karl Henning, Antonio Vivaldi
Encore:  Mahler (attr) - Symphonic Prelude

not edward

#29
January 13, 2011, 07:07:38 AM
I'm in a Mahlery mood at the moment, so why not Hartmann's 6th followed by the final Cooke version of Mahler 10. That'll be a great way to leave the audience emotionally exhausted.

There used to be a Decca 2fer that had a program that was very long but worked incredibly well as a journey from darkness to light: Schmidt's 4th followed by Mahler 2nd. Vienna would be the obvious orchestral choice for it.

Plus I think Schnittke's Peer Gynt needs more exposure. Mariinsky anyone?
"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

Mirror Image

#30
February 06, 2011, 08:06:32 PM Last Edit: February 06, 2011, 08:13:31 PM by Mirror Image
I've got a new program:

- An all British music night - Conducted by myself with the London Symphony Orchestra

Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia (solo viola: Lawrence Power)

-A very short intermission so the chorus can enter the stage and proper adjustments can be made onstage-

Walton: In Honour of the City of London (choral work w/ orchestra)

-Intermission-

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral" (Soprano: Anne Sofie von Otter)

(poco) Sforzando

#31
February 06, 2011, 08:16:41 PM
I would conduct Die Meistersinger at the Met.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

abidoful

#32
February 07, 2011, 01:43:24 AM
Chopin: Concerto op.11
Chopin: Krakowiak, op.14

Some great conductor should whipe the dust from those scores a little (especially op.14 needs a good recording, still.)

Guido

#33
February 07, 2011, 08:36:43 AM
Quote from: Sforzando on February 06, 2011, 08:16:41 PM
I would conduct Die Meistersinger at the Met.

cast comprising....?
Geologist.

The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

springrite

#34
February 07, 2011, 08:46:38 AM
de Sabata: Juventus
Berio: Rendering

______Intermission______

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

SpringRite conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonics

AND, an encore to end all encores:

Pettersson Symphony #7!
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Mirror Image

#35
February 07, 2011, 08:21:38 PM
Quote from: springrite on February 07, 2011, 08:46:38 AMAND, an encore to end all encores:

Pettersson Symphony #7!

That would be one hell of an encore and a long one at that. ;)

This is my 3000 post. Moving along....

(poco) Sforzando

#36
February 08, 2011, 03:07:55 AM
Quote from: Guido on February 07, 2011, 08:36:43 AM
cast comprising....?

Only the best, only the best.
"I don't know what sforzando means, though it clearly means something."

Brian

#37
February 08, 2011, 09:09:28 AM
It will probably be different in a month, but my current choice would be:

Janacek | Sinfonietta
Dvorak | Te Deum
INTERVAL
Janacek | Glagolitic Mass (original score)

Juan Diego Florez, tenor
Thomas Hampson, bass-baritone
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Mezzo-soprano TBD (but let's be honest, she only has three lines)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
In a cathedral

Lethevich

#38
February 08, 2011, 09:24:29 AM
Bax - Nympholept
Rózsa - Symphony in 3 Movements
Intermission
Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande

I can dream ;_:
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Mirror Image

#39
February 08, 2011, 08:34:54 PM
An all Czech night

Conducted by myself with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Suk: Fantastic Scherzo
Martinu: Symphony No. 5

-Intermission-

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass

Soprano: Dawn Upshaw
Mezzo-soprano: Magdalena Kozena
Tenor: Vladimir Galouzine
Bass: Peter Fried
Czech Philharmonic Choir
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