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

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Looking backward to, granted, but still:

Elbphilharmonie
Review: Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Opening And G.F.Haas World Premiere

[king ubu]

Heard Pablo Heras-Casado with the Tonhalle Orchestra on Friday - he stepped in for Christoph von Dohnányi, who was the reason I had bought a ticket ... on the programme were Schubert 3 and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. The former was attacked with lots of verve, resulting in a performance of great clarity, but also a performance that seemed to make Schubert sound like Beethoven, at least in the opening and closing movement, while the middle parts had lots of that Viennese charm of Schubert's. The Bartók was awesome, I found, though a short review I read in a daily paper (of the first concert on Thursday, I think, otherwise it wouldn't have been in the Saturday issue was much more favourable of the Schubert and thought Heras-Casado lacked sense for the larger arcs in the Bartók. My experience with Bartók so far is rather limited, so I wouldn't know, but it was fun for sure, if just to hear the huge number of musicians sitting on the edge of their stools performing this piece that really demands all their attention. (For Schubert, the orchestra was reasonably small, but it was Heras-Casado's interpretation that attempted to make it sound like a titanic Beethoven piece - or at least so I though, as did an elderly guy whom I'd met in a concert in December, guess he prefers the same back-row seats where you can stand up and even wander around if there's not too many people in those seats.)

[Spineur]

For the Europeans, ARTE TV broadcast Sunday Jan 15th at 17:35 the inaugural concert of ElbPhilarmonie of Hamburg. It will be available for streaming later on for one week.
This is the program:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Ouverture des Créatures de Prométhée op. 43
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Ouverture de Ruy Blas op. 95
Johannes Brahms

Symphonie n° 2 op. 73, 4e mouvement

Benjamin Britten
"Pan" extrait de Six métamorphoses d'après Ovide op. 49

Henri Dutilleux
Mystère de l'instant

Emilio de Cavalieri / Antonio Archilei
"Dalle più alte sfere" extrait de La Pellegrina

Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Photoptosis, Prélude pour grand orchestre

Jakob Praetorius
Motet "Quam pulchra es"

Rolf Liebermann
Furioso

Giulio Caccini
"Amarilli mia bella", extrait de Le nuove musiche

Olivier Messiaen
Turangalîla-Symphonie, Finale

Richard Wagner
Prélude de Parsifal

Wolfgang Rihm
Reminiszenz, Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn
(création)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphonie n° 9 op. 125, Finale

[André]

Talk about eclecticism !  . Actually I think it will serve the sound engineers and musicians most. Very clever programming to showcase or pinpoint all the acoustic characteristics of the new hall.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Talk about eclecticism !  . Actually I think it will serve the sound engineers and musicians most. Very clever programming to showcase or pinpoint all the acoustic characteristics of the new hall.

That was the idea. To showcase what all worked. (Incidentally, not everything worked.)

[Spineur]

Just listened to the Elbphilarmonie concert.  Not everything was broadcasted as the concert started with the Britten and the Rihm was skipped as well.  They did a very strange thing in the Britten and the Baroque pieces: the soloist and some of the accompanying instrument were on the balconies and staircases.  In the Britten, the sound of the lone hoboe sitting on a staircase was downright awful on my sound system.  For the baroque pieces it was slightly better but still this was an unnatural sound.
On the orchestral pieces (especially the Dutilleux & Messian) the sound felt highly detailled, which is how I like it.
Another aweful thing in the program were the light and stroboscopic effects on the outside of the building in sync to the music: nighrclub feeling.  No better way to stress the ostentatious look of the place.
I dont know who will be the chef in residence nor its orchestra.  Probably not the NDR which played in this concert.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Just listened to the Elbphilarmonie concert.  Not everything was broadcasted as the concert started with the Britten and the Rihm was skipped as well.  They did a very strange thing in the Britten and the Baroque pieces: the soloist and some of the accompanying instrument were on the balconies and staircases.  In the Britten, the sound of the lone hoboe sitting on a staircase was downright awful on my sound system.  For the baroque pieces it was slightly better but still this was an unnatural sound.
On the orchestral pieces (especially the Dutilleux & Messian) the sound felt highly detailled, which is how I like it.
Another aweful thing in the program were the light and stroboscopic effects on the outside of the building in sync to the music: nighrclub feeling.  No better way to stress the ostentatious look of the place.
I dont know who will be the chef in residence nor its orchestra.  Probably not the NDR which played in this concert.

Your last question: Yes, the NDR band and Hengelbrock. The orchestra has even been re-named "NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester". Live, it was the reverse: All chamber/early stuff sounded GREAT, the rest rather 'meh'.

[NikF]

Blacher - Concertante Musik

Haydn - Cello Concerto No 1 in C major 

Brahms - Symphony No 1 in C minor

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Johannes Moser cello
Christoph König conductor

One piece I've never heard performed live but very much want to (Brahms) along with one I haven't heard at all (Haydn) and beginning with a composer completely unknown to me (Blacher) and so all in all, something to look forward to.

[listener]

I will go to the Vancouver S.O. tomorrow (Otto Tausk cond. Simone Lamsma violin)
SHOSTAKOVICH  Violin Concerto 1, RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances   WAGNER: Flying Dutchman Overture
in spite of the comment on the VSO's facebook page :
Just like to point out that the fine gentleman who I believe was trying out for the position of concertmaster on the evening of January 14, 2017 was not wearing shiny dress shoes. He also missed the opportunities to execute a proper flip of the tail of his coat. Nicholas (apart from that one time), and Dale perform it excellently."

[André]

Next month we'll be in Europe. There is that one concert that looks interesting at the Kölner Philharmonie:

http://www.koelner-philharmonie.de/veranstaltung/116894/

Daniil Tifonov in Rach 3 should be fun to watch and hear!

Unfortunately I can't book in advance. Since we'll be visiting family, time will be short and I expect the wife to oppose a 2 day stay in Cologne. We'll see.

[bhodges]

Starting Thursday, Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin are doing all 9 Bruckner symphonies (sorry, fans of Nos. 0 and 00) in chronological order at Carnegie Hall. Almost all of the concerts -- except for No. 8 -- are paired with Mozart.

I'm going to all nine. (Yes, I'm a nut. )

--Bruce

[Drasko]

On Thursday:

Mozart - Symphony No.32
Walton - Violin Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No.1

Akiko Suwanai (violin)
Belgrade Philharmonic
Daniel Raiskin (cond.)

I'll be hearing Walton piece for the first time ever.

Then in two weeks time Gergiev with Mariinsky Orchestra will be in town, but the program is yet undisclosed, so I'll wait a bit more before getting the tickets. Two days before in Barcelona they play Shostakovich 4th, if same that'd be nice.

[Brian]

Starting Thursday, Daniel Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin are doing all 9 Bruckner symphonies (sorry, fans of Nos. 0 and 00) in chronological order at Carnegie Hall. Almost all of the concerts -- except for No. 8 -- are paired with Mozart.

I'm going to all nine. (Yes, I'm a nut. )

--Bruce

Such envy! I wanted to come and at least see 6 & 7 but it didn't work out 

On the other hand, my next Dallas Symphony appointment is our man Jaap (your new man Jaap) do the Bruckner Seventh, after Alisa Weilerstein plays the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations.

[king ubu]

Going to the ballet for the first time in nearly 20 years tomorrow night ... exhausted by winter, hope I won't fall asleep, but I'm actually looking forward a lot!

This is what I'll be seeing: http://www.opernhaus.ch/en/activity/detail/anna-karenina-18-01-2017-18568/

[NikF]

Brahms: Hungarian Dances (orchestrated Brahms and Dausgaard)

Schubert: An Schwager Kronos, D.369 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.3') Geheimes, D.719 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.4') Memnon, D.541 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.4') Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D.583 (orchestrated Brahms) (c.3')

Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D major

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Budapest Bár
Benjamin Appl - baritone
Thomas Dausgaard - conductor

[Spineur]

For once there are decent concerts in Grenoble around a special Beethoven week-end
-> Prazak quartet
-> Abdel Rahman el Bacha
and a few more.  I bought tickets for those two.

[king ubu]

A week of vacation ahead ... mostly in Milano, where I'm planning to catch:

- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet (plays John Coltrane)
- Lucas Debargue (the Liszt sonata, Ravel's "Garspard" and some Scarlatti)
- Takács Quartet (Haydn 70/2, Ravel and Beethoven Op. 131)
- Verdi's "Don Carlo" at La Scala

Should be a fun four days ... and GioCar will be there for the middle, too 

The vacation will be continued in Torino and Novara, where things will end with Bobby Bradford, the wonderful trumpet player (regular Ornette Coleman sideman and co-leader of an amazing band with the late John Carter, among other things, lately he made a few wonderful albums with Frode Gjerstad, the tour is with Vinnie Golia).

[GioCar]

A week of vacation ahead ... mostly in Milano, where I'm planning to catch:

- Roscoe Mitchell Sextet (plays John Coltrane)
- Lucas Debargue (the Liszt sonata, Ravel's "Garspard" and some Scarlatti)
- Takács Quartet (Haydn 70/2, Ravel and Beethoven Op. 131)
- Verdi's "Don Carlo" at La Scala

Should be a fun four days ... and GioCar will be there for the middle, too 

The vacation will be continued in Torino and Novara, where things will end with Bobby Bradford, the wonderful trumpet player (regular Ornette Coleman sideman and co-leader of an amazing band with the late John Carter, among other things, lately he made a few wonderful albums with Frode Gjerstad, the tour is with Vinnie Golia).

Yeah, I can confirm 

and with Mrs GioCar and friends, tonight at La Scala:
Zubin Mehta conducting the Filarmonica:
Anton Webern: Sechs Stücke für Orchester op. 6
Franz Joseph Haydn: Sinfonia in re magg. Hob. 96 "The Miracle"
Franz Schubert: Sinfonia n. 8 in do magg. D. 944 "Die Grosse"

Busy with concerts...

[king ubu]

Enjoy! Sounds like a good programme, too!

[GioCar]

Enjoy! Sounds like a good programme, too!

Thanks!