What's your live concert "bucket list"?

[Brian]

What pieces of music do you really want to see live before you "kick the bucket"? What pieces are you willing to travel to see?

I think my live bucket list currently looks like...

Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust
Chavez - Sinfonia india*
C. Halffter - Tiento del primer tono y batalla imperial*
Janacek - the operas
Kabelac - Mystery of Time
Lloyd - Symphony No 5
Martinu - Piano Concerto No 4
Mendelssohn - Octet*
Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane (complete)
Weinberg - Cello Concerto*
Widor - Organ Symphony No 5 but they don't rush the toccata

*edited later to add these in

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I've been lucky enough to successfully tick off a number of "bucket list" pieces of music: Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (twice) and Sinfonietta (three times with a fourth canceled by covid), Nielsen's Fourth, the Gothic Symphony, Mahler 3, Sibelius 5, the Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra (twice), Dvorak's Te Deum, and Schubert's string quintet.

[Mapman]

My list includes:

Nielsen 5
Mahler 9 (Tentatively scheduled for next spring!)
Sibelius 6
Bruch Double Concerto
Suk Asrael
Stanford 3 or 6

I'll probably think of more later.

In the past year, I was able to cross 2 works off my list: Mahler 7 and Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Pli selon pli by Boulez
Gruppen for Three Orchestras by Stockhausen (at least a better performance than Alan Gilbert did in NYC some years ago)
Carré by Stockhausen
Concerto for Orchestra by Carter (which I've only heard live once, in a disappointing rendition under Leon Botstein)

The one time I met Boulez, I asked him whether he'd ever perform Gruppen in New York, and he replied there was no suitable hall. The Park Avenue Armory where Gilbert performed the work did not prove him wrong. But I foolishly neglected to ask why we've never heard Pli selon pli, which has no similar spatial requirements.

And for something completely different:
Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer
Utopia Limited by G+S (much the more interesting of the two late "orphans," the other being the dull Grand Duke)

I have heard all the "big five" Janacek operas live, and to redress the above, Gilbert's semi-staged concert performance of Vixen with the NY Phil was the highlight of my experience hearing him there.

[Todd]

I don't know if I'd say these are true bucket list items, since visiting a handful of natural wonders are the only things I place in that category, but performances I'd travel to see include:

Wozzeck and Lulu somewhere in Germany, or perhaps New York/Chicago/San Francisco/LA. (I want a big name cast.)

The Ring at Bayreuth.  (I could see the cycle in Dallas in concert productions next year, and that could suffice?)

Parsifal at Bayreuth.  (I would be willing to travel up and down the West Coast otherwise.)

Tristan at Bayreuth, or perhaps New York/Chicago/San Francisco/LA.

Il Trittico (complete) at La Scala, or perhaps New York/Chicago/San Francisco/LA.

Boris Godunov, Don Carlos, Falstaff, Life with an Idiot, Saint François d'Assise, Nozze, and La Boheme in a suitable production somewhere in North America.

There are a good number of artists I'd travel to see.  Volodos, Schuch, YES, Mladic, Hinrichs, Gens, Bayrakdarian and a host of others warrant domestic travel.  Volodos and Schuch may warrant crossing the pond.  I'd also like to see Kit Armstrong perform in Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus, just because. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Berlioz: Requiem
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 or No. 13
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Puccini: Turandot
Walton: Symphony No. 1  Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (complete ballet, of course)
Holmboe: Symphony No. 8
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Atterbeg: Symphony No. 3

I already had the pleasure of hearing some works I really love (Nielsen's 4th and 5th, Mahler's 6th, Arnold's 5th, Verdi's Requiem, Prokoviev's Alexander Nevsky, Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust, Bruckner's 8th, Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, Ravel's String Quartet and Piano Trio, Dvorak's String Quartet No. 13, etc.)

[Lisztianwagner]

Wagner: every opera at the Bayreuth Festival
Mahler: Symphonies No. 6 & 9
Liszt: Transcendental Etudes or Anneès de pelèrinage
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 or Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Schönberg: Erwartung, Verklärte Nacht or the Gurre-Lieder (I hope next year in Milan)
Holst: The Planets
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
New Year's Concert in Vienna
Ravel: Miroirs or Daphnis et Chloé
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

[Pohjolas Daughter]

What pieces of music do you really want to see live before you "kick the bucket"? What pieces are you willing to travel to see?

I think my live bucket list currently looks like...

Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust
Janacek - the operas
Kabelac - Mystery of Time
Lloyd - Symphony No 5
Martinu - Piano Concerto No 4
Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane (complete)
Widor - Organ Symphony No 5 but they don't rush the toccata

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I've been lucky enough to successfully tick off a number of "bucket list" pieces of music: Janacek's Glagolitic Mass (twice) and Sinfonietta (three times with a fourth canceled by covid), Nielsen's Fourth, the Gothic Symphony, Mahler 3, Sibelius 5, the Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra (twice), Dvorak's Te Deum, and Schubert's string quintet.

Er, sorry, but by your own thread value, you don't get to lump all of Janacek's operas into one!   Well, it's pushing it at least! ;-)

PD

[Nunc Dimittis]

In no order,

Koppel:  Cello Concerto
Sauguet:  Symphony No. 3
Scelci:  Uaxuctum
Bax:  Symphony No. 2
Diamond: Symphony No. 2
Arnold: Symphony No. 5
Pärt:  Stabat Mater
Holmboe: Symphony No. 8
Taktakishvili: Violin Concerto No.1
Pettersson:  Symphony No. 7
Chavez:  Piano Concerto
Myaskovsky:  Symphony No. 27
Mathias: Concerto for harp and orchestra
Kodaly:  String Quartet No. 1(or just mvt. 3-Presto as an encore)
Villa-Lobos: Symphony No. 5 


Two pieces that I can tick off my list are the Bax Symphony No. 3 and Villa-Lobos Choros no. 11.  I did travel to London (from California) to hear the Bax with Vernon Handley conducting.  The Villa-Lobos was performed with Christina Ortiz in Yokohama, Japan, where I just happened to be living at that time. 

I tried several times to get the Pärt performed when I lived in Sacramento, but it always fell through.

I would be willing to travel to see most of those on my list.  The Koppel, Sauguet and Taktakishvili pieces are probably rarely (never?) performed outside of their composer's respective country, so would require travel.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Some of mine (still working on my first cup of coffee):

Some Sibelius:  Perhaps a selection of his tone poems played by the Lahti in Finland (and then being able to see the Northern Lights) Oh, happy day!
Don Carlos at La Scala
Vaughan Williams - Oh, boy...er Symphony No. 2 in London
Something by Britten in Aldeburgh - Maybe, Midsummer Night's?
Debussy - Images, somewhere in southern France during the spring or early summertime (not in August!)
Dvorak - Just about anything, played in the Czech Republic--Oh! His cello concerto!  Perhaps at the Rudolfinum? 
Janacek - Like the OP, hard to narrow it down...drat, Brian!  Maybe his two string quartets?  I imagine that there is a nice venue or two in Moravia?  Would love to see his Sinfonietta performed.  All of that brass! 
Kodaly - His Concerto for Cello Solo..how about in Budapest?
Will think of others.

PD

[Brian]

Bruce's post about an upcoming livestream reminded me: Mendelssohn's Octet is DEFINITELY on my concert must-see list. Just from the last livestream he posted of that piece, it looks like so much fun to watch in person.

[Brian]

Some Sibelius:  Perhaps a selection of his tone poems played by the Lahti in Finland (and then being able to see the Northern Lights) Oh, happy day!

There is a "concert hall" in rural Finland that is a little valley between two mountains, and every summer they do a concert or two where orchestra musicians perch on the side of one mountain and everyone sits in the valley and listens outdoors. That might be a fun venue for this! (Details of it I learned in the booklet to Kalevi Aho's Symphony No. 12, which was written for this "venue".)

The Ring at Bayreuth.  (I could see the cycle in Dallas in concert productions next year, and that could suffice?)

Full schedule and partial cast is announced by the way. They are doing some of 'em twice.

Rheingold - Sun., Oct. 13, 2pm
Walkure - Tue., Oct. 15, 5pm
Siegfried - Thu., Oct. 17, 5pm, and also Sat., Oct. 5, 5pm
Gotterdammerung - Sun., Oct. 20, 5pm, and also Tue., Oct. 8, 5pm

"The star-studded cast list includes Lise Lindstrom (Brunnhilde), Sara Jakubiak (Sieglinde), Deniz Uzun (Fricka), Daniel Johanssohn (Siegfried), Mark Delavan (Wotan), and Tomas Tomasson (Alberich). The production will be led by staging director Alberto Triola, who also produced the DSO's opera-in-concert performances of Salome and Eugene Onegin."

[Mapman]

My list includes:

Nielsen 5
Mahler 9 (Tentatively scheduled for next spring!)
Sibelius 6
Bruch Double Concerto
Suk Asrael
Stanford 3 or 6

I'll probably think of more later.

In the past year, I was able to cross 2 works off my list: Mahler 7 and Lutosławski's Concerto for Orchestra.

I have tickets for Mahler 9 in a couple months.

Detroit just announced next season, and they'll perform Bruch's Double Concerto. I'm not sure if I will still be in Michigan next spring, but I might travel to Detroit anyway.

[relm1]

Gurre-leider
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 1, 2, 3, ok all of them.
Empire Strikes Back - Live to Picture

[Karl Henning]

Mahler 9 (Tentatively scheduled for next spring!)

Here's hoping! I got to hear the BSO play this in Symphony Hall. Fabulous!

[Karl Henning]

Pli selon pli by Boulez
Gruppen for Three Orchestras by Stockhausen (at least a better performance than Alan Gilbert did in NYC some years ago)
Carré by Stockhausen
Concerto for Orchestra by Carter (which I've only heard live once, in a disappointing rendition under Leon Botstein)

The one time I met Boulez, I asked him whether he'd ever perform Gruppen in New York, and he replied there was no suitable hall. The Park Avenue Armory where Gilbert performed the work did not prove him wrong. But I foolishly neglected to ask why we've never heard Pli selon pli, which has no similar spatial requirements.

And for something completely different:
Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer
Utopia Limited by G+S (much the more interesting of the two late "orphans," the other being the dull Grand Duke)

I have heard all the "big five" Janacek operas live, and to redress the above, Gilbert's semi-staged concert performance of Vixen with the NY Phil was the highlight of my experience hearing him there.

Great to 'see' you, Larry!

[Karl Henning]

Er, sorry, but by your own thread value, you don't get to lump all of Janacek's operas into one!   Well, it's pushing it at least! ;-)

PD

Bring that hammer down, PD!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

There is a "concert hall" in rural Finland that is a little valley between two mountains, and every summer they do a concert or two where orchestra musicians perch on the side of one mountain and everyone sits in the valley and listens outdoors. That might be a fun venue for this! (Details of it I learned in the booklet to Kalevi Aho's Symphony No. 12, which was written for this "venue".)

That could be cool!

PD

[Ganondorf]

La fanciulla del West. But maybe that's not enough: I want a specific production by Vilppu Kiljunen which probably isn't performed any more and which I had a chance to see some 10+ years ago but I didn't. So I don't entertain high hopes of ever seeing that one. Maybe some other production will suffice?

There are countless other operas I would like to see but Fanciulla is currently number uno. There are other operas I like even more (such as Wagner's Ring) but I didn't list those because after the upcoming Götterdämmerung in May, I have seen not one but two different performances of it already. My first Ring was the famed Götz Friedrich production in 2011. The second one I have almost finished is Finnish-made. Granted I would like to see Ring and other Wagner operas at Bayreuth very much but I would probably have to wait for a looooong time and pay an extraordinary amount, besides. I've heard acoustics there are quite special, though.

[Brian]

Gurre-leider
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 1, 2, 3, ok all of them.
Empire Strikes Back - Live to Picture

Now that you mention it, I have only seen one RVW symphony live (5) and it was by a student orchestra (albeit students being conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy).

[Karl Henning]

Gurre-leider

Delighted to report that we've had that at Symphony Hall, too.