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

[bhodges]

Yes, it is! I adore the overheated Scriabin, and haven't heard the Rach 3 live in probably...15 years or more.

--Bruce

[Sergeant Rock]

Hogan: Rhapsody for Orchestra
Misbourne Symphony Orchestra/Richard Jacklin cond.

The piece highlighted is my piece! Very excited as this will be the very first time an orchestral has given a concert performance of my work!

Wunderkind! Congratulations 

Sarge

[Drasko]

on Friday

Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes
Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No.2
Hanson - Symphony No.2

Belgrade Philharmonic
Andrei Gavrilov, piano
Andrew Grams, conductor

Don't think I've heard any of the pieces live before, Hanson live or on disc. Should be interesting.

[madaboutmahler]

Wunderkind! Congratulations 

Sarge

Thank you Sarge!

[bhodges]

Next one:
Bax: Tintagel
Hogan: Rhapsody for Orchestra
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Holst: The Planets

Misbourne Symphony Orchestra/Richard Jacklin cond.

The piece highlighted is my piece! Very excited as this will be the very first time an orchestral has given a concert performance of my work!

Wunderkind! Congratulations 

Sarge

Congrats as well! (Sorry, I was reading too fast and missed this.) And to be in the company of Bax, Elgar and Holst...you must be very happy.

on Friday

Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes
Saint-Saens - Piano Concerto No.2
Hanson - Symphony No.2

Belgrade Philharmonic
Andrei Gavrilov, piano
Andrew Grams, conductor

Don't think I've heard any of the pieces live before, Hanson live or on disc. Should be interesting.

And a great program here, for sure. You don't see that Stravinsky show up all that often - or the Hanson, for that matter.

--Bruce

[madaboutmahler]

Congrats as well! (Sorry, I was reading too fast and missed this.) And to be in the company of Bax, Elgar and Holst...you must be very happy.
--Bruce

Thank you Bruce! When I was told that I would be composing a piece for a concert with such well known and loved pieces I was rather nervous!

[jlaurson]

A bit of DSCH tonight:


Symphonies 1 & 4 (two of my favorites)

Valery Gergiev, Munich Philharmonic

[Christo]

Heard Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) live today, in Arnhem. For the second time in my life. Still, quite an experience.

[Karl Henning]

Heard Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) live today, in Arnhem. For the second time in my life. Still, quite an experience.

It's a beauty!

[zmic]

Last night I heard Victoria's requiem mass by Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe 

[bhodges]

Last night I heard Victoria's requiem mass by Collegium Vocale/Herreweghe 

Great piece, great group, great conductor! Where was it?

--Bruce

[zmic]

Great piece, great group, great conductor! Where was it?

--Bruce

Ghent, Belgium where I live. Home game for Herreweghe.

[bhodges]

Fantastic...I just heard him and the group live for the first time last year, in a beautiful program of Brahms, Schubert and Cornelius that ended with Bruckner's Mass in E minor.

--Bruce

[stingo]

November 5th, 2011
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Brahms A German Requiem
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Conductor
Dorothea Röschmann - Soprano
Matthias Goerne - Baritone
The Westminster Symphonic Choir - Mixed chorus
Verizon Hall

My next concert - can't wait!

[North Star]

3.11.
Anna-Maria Helsing & Oulu Symphony Orchestra,

Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1
Max Reger: Four tone poems after Arnold Böcklin
Rahmaninov: Paganini Rhapsody [Bernd Glemser (piano)]
Liszt: Totentanz [Bernd Glemser (piano)]

A great concert yet again, the orchestra has improved quite a bit during this season, and Glemser was fantastic in the Totentanz and Paganini Rhapsody, too. Awesome stuff, especially getting Glemser here.
Helsing, who was awarded the Louis Spohr medal some time ago, is doing a wonderful job with the orchestra. It seems probable, though that she will be leaving Oulu and go to Central Europe, UK or US. Sadly we can't keep all the great Finnish conductors here. 

[JerryS]

A great concert yet again, the orchestra has improved quite a bit during this season, and Glemser was fantastic in the Totentanz and Paganini Rhapsody, too. Awesome stuff, especially getting Glemser here.
Helsing, who was awarded the Louis Spohr medal some time ago, is doing a wonderful job with the orchestra, and won the Louis Spohr medal some months ago. It seems probable, though that she will be leaving Oulu and go to Central Europe, UK or US. Sadly we can't keep all the great Finnish conductors here. 

Glemser performed the same pair last weekend with the San Antonio Symphony conducted by Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Stupendous playing from Glemser. I've never heard such a thrilling Totentanz.

[JerryS]

The Met HD Live performance of Wagner's Siegfried will begin Saturday, November 5 at 12:00 noon ET. You can check the Met website for participating theaters. I went to the Walkure performance and while I didn't particularly like the staging (the multiple plank "machine") it was musically quite good and the HD experience was the next best thing to being there. My only major complaint concerned the theater next door playing something with LOTS of explosions, which was distracting. I'll be at the Huebner Oaks AMC.

[pjme]

next Thursday in Antwerp:

War Requiem, opus 66  Benjamin Britten 

Antwerp PhO , childrens choir flemish opera , City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus 
cond.: Martyn Brabbins 
soprano:  Emma Bell 
tenor  Allan Oke 
bas  Florian Boesch 

Looks very promissing.

Peter

[Szykneij]

Tonight my wife and I will be enjoying our annual visit to opening night of the Melrose Symphony Orchestra season . The program is: 

Sibelius-Finlandia
Prokofiev-Piano Concerto No. 3
Mussorgsky-Pictures at an Exhibition

I'm unfamiliar with the Prokofiev, so I'm listening to the Gilels/Kondrashin recording now.

[Opus106]

Bought myself a ticket today for a concert by Minguet Quartet on the 15th. I have no idea what they will be playing on that day, although if the Bombay programme in anything to go by, it will be "Bach, Mozart and Brahms". But they do have some other interesting composers as well as part of their repertoire.