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

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ChamberNut

Quote from: Morigan on January 09, 2008, 10:00:13 AM
Tonight at the NAC:

Ludovic Morlot, chef d'orchestre
Midori, violon

RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye : Suite
TCHAÏKOVSKI Concerto pour violon
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante defunte
CHOSTAKOVITCH Symphonie no 9

I can't wait!!!

Morigan, how was the concert?

Morigan

Hi ChamberNut,

It was great! The Ravel wasn't really what I was after, but it was still nice... I loved many parts of his Mother Goose suite.

The Tchaikovsky VC and Midori were my main motivations for buying the tickets, of course. I have to tell you something funny: just before the beginning of the concert, there was the usual recorded message telling the audience to turn off their cell phones, and then another voice announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's soloist, Midori, is sorry to inform you that, due to loss of luggage during her travel from Japan, she will be appearing on stage wearing street clothes". LOL!! So anyway she played while wearing something that looked like a school girl's uniform from the 40's.

Her interpretation of the concerto was awesome; she used a little more rubato than what I'm used to, but it was interesting. I also thought her sound was very small. Sometimes a solo instrumentist from the orchestra would totally overpower the main melodic line of her violin. I thought her sound was somewhat like her: a small, shy and cute asian lady.

She came down to the Atrium to sign autographs and meet with people after the concert; it was nice.

Oh and I almost forgot: I loved the Shosty. I was anxious to hear the 9th after reading about its story and the controversy that it caused, etc. It confirmed to me that Morlot was a very competent conductor.

One could almost see Shostakovich's ghost running around the performers and yelling: "This is a circus! The world is a circus!".


Sergeant Rock

We'll be attending a fascinating concert next Monday in Mannheim. The Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz performing three works I've never heard live:

César Franck - Psalm 150 for Choir and Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Organ)

Arthur Honegger - Le Roi David


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"

bhodges

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 11, 2008, 12:47:39 PM
We'll be attending a fascinating concert next Monday in Mannheim. The Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz performing three works I've never heard live:

César Franck - Psalm 150 for Choir and Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Organ)

Arthur Honegger - Le Roi David


Sarge

Very interesting program, and I don't know the Honegger at all.  Does the hall have a great pipe organ, by any chance?  If so, you are possibly in for a sonic spectacular with that Saint-Saens.

--Bruce

Bogey

My wife and I are heading to this tonight:

Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado

Virtuoso Violins: Chamber Music by Candlelight

Lopez Nogueira, Suite for Solo Violin

Castello, Sonatas for One and Two Violins and Continuo

Stradella, Motet: Exultate in Deo fideles

Purcell, Fantasia: Three Parts Upon a Ground

Telemann, Concerto for Four Violins (unaccompanied) in G major

Handel, Cantata: Spande ancor

Telemann, Concerto for Violin, Strings and Continuo in E major

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toledobass

Quote from: Morigan on January 09, 2008, 10:18:48 AM
Thank you for your replies :)

It's going to make up for the fact that I missed Frederica von Stade's recital yesterday...


:'( :'( :'(


pjme

I'll be in London on February 10th for a Philharmonia concert /Royal Albert Hall.

Esa Pekka Salonen will conduct

André Jolivet's 5 Dances rituelles
Olivier Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques ( piano & orch.)
Stravinsky : Le sacre du printemps

The concert will be repeated in Luxemburg's new Philharmonie ( on February 12th)


Bogey

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 11, 2008, 12:47:39 PM
We'll be attending a fascinating concert next Monday in Mannheim. The Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz performing three works I've never heard live:

César Franck - Psalm 150 for Choir and Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony #3 (Organ)

Arthur Honegger - Le Roi David


Sarge


With that line up Sarge, let us know of any last minute changes. ;D
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Bogey on January 13, 2008, 05:24:32 PM
With that line up Sarge, let us know of any last minute changes. ;D

;D :D ;D

Yeah, with my luck they'll substitute Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for the Saint-Saens. But actually it doesn't matter. We aren't going. I've got the flu. :(

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"

Siedler

Quote from: Siedler on April 20, 2007, 05:34:10 PM
Thu 31.1.2008 / Carlos Kalmar, conductor / Lilli Paasikivi, mezzo-soprano / Jussi Myllys, baritone / Ain Anger, bass / Dominante Choir
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
I bought tickets a while ago to this one, I'm excited as I haven't heard Berlioz R&J yet.

Another concert which I'm really looked forward to (and I bought the tickets today):
21 May 2008 Helsinki, Finlandia Hall / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo; Annika Mylläri-McLoud, soprano; Hilary Summers, alto; Akateeminen Laulu; EMO Ensemble

Arnold Schönberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2
--
It will be wonderful to hear Resurrection symphony live even with the dreary acoustics of the venue.


Bogey

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 14, 2008, 05:31:54 AM
;D :D ;D

Yeah, with my luck they'll substitute Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for the Saint-Saens. But actually it doesn't matter. We aren't going. I've got the flu. :(

Sarge

Sorry to hear that.  Get well soon.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

B_cereus

I am seriously considering going to see a concert by the young French cellist Gautier Capucon early next month. He begins touring Europe and North America from this month.

I have never heard of him before, but I've read very positive reviews of his CD recordings. Anyone familiar and has opinions on him? Should I go for it, or should I spend my money somewhere else? Thanks  :)

Lilas Pastia

Gautier Capuçon is one of those amazing young French upstarts who are taking the musical world by storm. For some reason they are all very personable too, with many cd covers looking like so much soft beefcake porn. That definitely helps sell concert tickets and records ::). But they are good. I mean, really good!

ChamberNut

Quote from: ChamberNut on January 08, 2008, 09:11:16 AM
Saturday Jan. 19th
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

Borodin - Prince Igor Overture
Chin Ya Kin - Ecstasy
Richard Strauss - Horn Concerto # 2
P.I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian"

Wow!  Being hardly familiar with Tchaikovsky symphonies in general, I was blown away by the Symphony No. 2 "Little Russian".  I love the energy of this symphony, and all the Ukrainian folk themes within it.  I now must get this symphony into my collection!  This was a great concert.  The Strauss Horn concerto was also new to me, but I enjoyed it very much.  You could tell the reverence and influence of Mozart's Horn Concerti in this work! Lovely.  :)

MishaK


ChamberNut

Quote from: O Mensch on January 21, 2008, 06:42:27 AM
Who was the horn soloist?

Horn soloist was the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's Principal Horn, Patricia Evans.

bhodges

Next week:

New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Synergy Vocals

Berio: Sinfonia
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

--Bruce

bhodges

But before next week, this one tonight.  I am very excited, and perhaps most amazingly, it's free.

Musicians from the Lucerne Festival Academy Ensemble and the New Juilliard Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, conductor

Varèse: Intégrales (1924-25)
Carter: Triple Duo (1982)
Stravinsky: Concertino (for twelve instruments) (1952)
Carter: Penthode (1984-85)
Boulez: Dérive I (1984, rev. 1986)
Carter: Clarinet Concerto (1996)
Ismail Lumanovski, clarinet

--Bruce

Drasko

tonight:

Piotr Anderszewski recital

J S Bach: Partita No 2 in C minor, BWV 826
Schumann: Humoreske in B flat major, op 20
Szymanowski: Masques, op 34
J S Bach: Partita No 1 in B flat major, BWV 825
(or English Suite No 4 instead of 2nd Partita)

and then on Friday regular Belgrade Philharmonic subscription concert:

Jadwiga Rappe, alto [yup, of the thread fame ;D]
Mariusz Smolij, conductor

S. Moniuszko: Overture to the opera Paria
K. Szymanowski: Three Songs to the poems of Jan Kasprowicz
S. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5

That will be more live Szymanovski in four days than for last four years

MishaK

Tell us what you think of Anderszewski. I was unimpressed with him in Chicago a few weeks ago in LvB PC 1.

I heard this last Saturday:

eight blackbird
Strange Imaginary Remix
 
Dennis DeSantis - strange imaginary remix
DeSantis - Powerless
David M. Gordon - Friction Systems
Gordon Fitzell- evanescence
Steve Mackey - Indigenous Instruments
Radiohead - Dollar and Cents (arr. Cliff Colnot)

Fun and games. The group is amazing. DeSantis was doing some electronic effects throughout all the works, which worked well for his own stuff and the Fitzell, but less so with the Mackey and Gordon, which lost a lot of edge and detail.

...I heard this yersterday:

MusicNOW

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Mark-Anthony Turnage, host
Sidsel Endresen, soprano

Wallin and Endresen -   LautLeben
Knussen -   Songs without Voices, Op. 26
Salonen -   Catch and Release

Wasn't so impressed with the Wallin/Endresen. Too much video performance art of a kind that has been done a million times. Loved the Knussen, though it was a tad austere for him. The Salonen was good fun. Star-studded audience with Boulez, Turnage, Knussen present. Boulez walked in right in front of me and Knussen sat a few seats over.


...and I am going to hear this on Saturday:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano


Berio -   Quatre dédicaces
Berlioz -   Les nuits d'été
Stravinsky -   Petrushka