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

[NikF]

Boris Blacher- Concertante Musik
Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto No 1 in C major
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No 1 in C minor

SSO
Cello - Johannes Moser
Conductor - Christoph König

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Tomorrow (Friday) I'm going to see Melbourne Bach Choir and Orchestra perform St John Passion. It was a choir I considered joining but ultimately didn't.......maybe one day in the future I might consider it again. This is my favourite Bach work, so I'm rather excited!

[king ubu]

I'm going to a jazz festival next week, which will be fun 

Me too! 

And just bought a ticket for Martin's Golgotha at Zurich Tonhalle for tomorrow!

[HIPster]

Headed out to Walt Disney Hall in a few hours for this:

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/reykjavik-festival-johann-johannsson/2017-04-17

I am a fan of Johansson's and in particular, really enjoy his recent soundtrack to the film The Arrival.

Also, I note that Nico Muhly will be performing as well; big thanks to Monsieur Croche for bringing him to my attention. 

[TheGSMoeller]

Headed out to Walt Disney Hall in a few hours for this:

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/reykjavik-festival-johann-johannsson/2017-04-17

I am a fan of Johansson's and in particular, really enjoy his recent soundtrack to the film The Arrival.

Also, I note that Nico Muhly will be performing as well; big thanks to Monsieur Croche for bringing him to my attention. 

That's really cool, HIPster, I am also a fan of Johansson. I quite often listen to the opening track of Fordlandia and the ending piece from The Miner's Hymns...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFAyNMkgt0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_Rfkhg7s_M

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Vienna Academy Orchestra, Martin Haselboeck, Beethoven Symphonies 5, 6
Izumi Hall, Osaka



Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 1)


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2017/04/beethoven-visits-japan-on-tour-with.html

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Seeing Król Roger next month, here's a trailer for the production they are doing https://youtu.be/ifCCPa8j5ss

[Mirror Image]

Seeing Król Roger month, here's a trailer for the production they are doing https://youtu.be/ifCCPa8j5ss

Wow, that's awesome! I hope you enjoy this masterpiece as much as I do.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Wow, that's awesome! I hope you enjoy this masterpiece as much as I do.

I think I will! I don't often have the money to see anything by Opera Australia but they are always impressive. However, they tend to be a bit conservative in their programming apart from putting on something a bit left of field like this! I guess since Victorian Opera have been putting on operas which are more and more obscure lately there has been an interest in productions which are slightly more original, interesting and less commonly performed than the umpteenth Traviata in all dressed up in a typical 19th century design.

Also, going to see Melbourne Opera's production of Lohengrin in August with someone
This company is definitely less professional than the other two major opera companies in Melbourne, but they also put on a very good show!

[HIPster]

That's really cool, HIPster, I am also a fan of Johansson. I quite often listen to the opening track of Fordlandia and the ending piece from The Miner's Hymns...

Right on, Greg. 

Had a blast last night at Disney Hall.  The show was good, not great.  Hard to disagree with the NYT critic's take (and an interesting article in any event) ~

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/arts/music/los-angeles-has-americas-most-important-orchestra-period.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Right on, Greg. 

Had a blast last night at Disney Hall.  The show was good, not great.  Hard to disagree with the NYT critic's take (and an interesting article in any event) ~

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/arts/music/los-angeles-has-americas-most-important-orchestra-period.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

This stuff I have been reading about on my little news app (Flipboard).....I must say LA Phil is doing admirable things!

[Florestan]

I'm back from an utterly delightful recital performed without score or intermission by the guy in my avatar.

Fr. Schubert: 4 Landler, D. 366 
J. Brahms: 16 Valsuri, op. 39       
A. Dvořák: 4 Valsuri, op. 54, caietul 2 
Fr. Chopin:  2 Valsuri, op. 69     
M. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Cl. Debussy: Valse Romantique   
                   La plus que lente       

My wife was particularly impressed by the two Debussy works.   

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Diary of a trip with a Viennese HIP Band to Japan

...and the review of the first concert...
Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 2)

[ritter]

Got tickets for the Ballet Béjart Lausanne, which will be visiting the Teatros del Canal (just down the street from where I live in Madrid) on April 29th. On the program, Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin , Tombées de la dernère pluie (on music by Schubert), Bhakti III (traditional Indian muisc), and Maurice Béjart's legendary take on Ravel's Boléro . I suppose the music will be pre-recorded, but I really am looking forward to seeing this wonderful and extremely  sensual choreagraphy of Boléro in the flesh.

Here it is, in a rather clever montage of two performances (one with a female soloist, and one with a man):

https://www.youtube.com/v/A4H7Gp0CAH4&index=11&list=PLuNl4Qq2OOmskfw9B6FS_2WW2PN50crF4

[Spineur]

Got tickets for the Ballet Béjart Lausanne, which will be visiting the Teatros del Canal (just down the street from where I live in Madrid) on April 29th. On the program, Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin , Tombées de la dernère pluie (on music by Schubert), Bhakti III (traditional Indian muisc), and Maurice Béjart's legendary take on Ravel's Boléro . I suppose the music will be pre-recorded, but I really am looking forward to seeing this wonderful and extremely  sensual choreagraphy of Boléro in the flesh.

Here it is, in a rather clever montage of two performances (one with a female soloist, and one with a man):

https://www.youtube.com/v/A4H7Gp0CAH4&index=11&list=PLuNl4Qq2OOmskfw9B6FS_2WW2PN50crF4

I did see the live performance with Jorge Donn some 15 years ago.  A very emotional experience.  You should really enjoy the show.

[ritter]

I did see the live performance with Jorge Donn some 15 years ago.  A very emotional experience.  You should really enjoy the show.

Jorge Donn was probably the dancer most associated with this choreography, helped of course by his appearance in Claude Lelouche's Les uns et les autres (where the ballet, unfortunaletly, is distorted by the addition of vocals to Ravel's score  ). Great that you could catch him on stage. 

[king ubu]

next up:
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MON 01.05.17
07:30 pm , Grosser Saal
Neue Konzertreihe Zürich

Kammerorchester Basel
Julia Schröder Konzertmeisterin
Julia Lezhneva Sopran

Georg Friedrich Händel
Concerto grosso F-Dur op. 3 Nr. 4

Carl Heinrich Graun
Arien aus der Oper "Armida" und "Coriolano"

Georg Friedrich Händel
Concerto grosso G-Dur op. 3 Nr. 3

Carl Heinrich Graun
Sinfonia zur Oper "Coriolano"
Arien aus der Oper "Armida" und "Silla"

Georg Friedrich Händel
Concerto grosso B-Dur op. 3 Nr. 2
Arie aus der Oper "Alessandro"
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Looking forward a lot! Just got Lezhneva's Graun CD and it's pretty cool indeed.

Debating with myself if I should attend this ... have a full schedule already (jazz concerts on 4th and 6th and possibly on 5th of May) and am not really into "Lobgesang" much (the Scottish and the Italian, yes), but ...

SO 07.05.17
GROSSE CHORSINFONIK
17:00 Uhr, Grosser Saal

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Lionel Bringuier Leitung
Xavier de Maistre Harfe
Mojca Erdmann Sopran
Katharina Konradi Sopran
Christian Elsner Tenor
Zürcher Sing-Akademie
Andreas Felber Einstudierung

Kaija Saariaho
"Trans" für Harfe und Orchester, Schweizer Erstaufführung

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
"Lobgesang" op. 52

[king ubu]

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Saariaho + harp ... anyone feels like pushing me to go?

[ritter]

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Saariaho + harp ... anyone feels like pushing me to go?

I'd go for the Saariaho (I don't know that particular piece, but very much like many works of this great but irregular composer). But...I saw Mendelssohn's Lobgesang many years ago conducted by Peter Maag here in Madrid, and said to myself "never again!"..I find it an very unattractive work...

[NorthNYMark]

Not one that I'm looking forward to anymore, but last night I just had a wonderful time hearing Messiaen's Quatuor pour le fin de temps by members of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. It was my first time experiencing the work in a live setting, and it was magical. The highlights for me were the section for solo clarinet (somehow, the sonority of those single, long-held notes seemed almost unreal) and the final, achingly beautiful violin note, which the audience allowed to hang in the air for an appropriately long time before beginning their applause.