What concerts are you looking forward to? (Part II)

[pjme]

I'll have to wait a full year, but on june 21st 2025 the Antwerp SO will perform three Belgo/Flemish works!
Good and rare.... I'll try to be there.

Conductor is Karel Deseure.

Worldpremiere of Danses macabres by Erik Desimpelaere  after Brueghel's  The triumph of death

https://www.erikdesimpelaere.com/Partituren%20composities/Danses-macabres/Danses%20Macabres%20-%20preview.pdf

Denise Tolkowsky's (very muscular) pianoconcerto (1958). The work was written for her husband Alex De Vries (1919-1964)

https://www.svm.be/componisten/tolkowsky-denise?language=en


Daniel Sternefeld's second symphony "Brueghel"

https://www.svm.be/componisten/sternefeld-daniel?language=en (several YT videos with Sternefeld's compositions, including the second symphony).

[ultralinear]

Tonight:

Liszt  Piano Concerto No.2
Bruckner  Symphony No.9

Philharmonia Orchestra
Manfred Honeck conductor
Alexandre Kantorow piano

[Brian]

I've posted a couple times around the board that this week I'll be seeing the Dallas Symphony and conductor Daniele Rustioni do the Casella Symphony No. 2. Unfortunately that's no longer true. At some point in the last few months there was a major program change and artist change, and subscribers with tickets were not informed.

The new program:

Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Rachmaninov - Paganini Rhapsody
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15

Andris Poga, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

The pianist and piano work have not changed. The Boulanger was added, which is cool. But the Shostakovich I am worried about. Not just because I was mentally prepared for a big riotous late romantic extravaganza full of Italian tunes, and am getting...uh...morbid Rossini quotes?  But because many of the hallmarks of DSCH 15 seem perfectly calibrated to touch my partner's sore spots. She's a former oboist and keen classical listener, but she hates long slow stretches, percussion only bits, short snippety cells, and quiet endings.

I think we'll just find out together what happens  but man, to have 2/3s of the program changed with no notice is an annoyance.