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

[André]

Apparently Nagano is going to record it in Montreal this year.

They did it 3 years ago, a "sight and sound" multimedia experience


http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/musique-classique/201402/21/01-4741095-harmonielehre-experience-deroutante.php

[Senta]

Well, yoo-hoo!  Hain't heard from you in a dog's age, dear!

Yoo-hoo! I'm around! Just lurking. May have time to forum again the next couple months

[Brian]

Senta sighting! Hope you are well!

[Kontrapunctus]

Pianist/composer Lera Auerbach in San Francisco on 3/27/2018:

AUERBACH: 21st Century Pictures (World Premiere)
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Going with my girlfriend to see Bartók violin concerto no. 2 (Alina Ibragimova) and Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 on Thursday evening. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša.

https://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2017/shostakovich-5/

[bhodges]

Going with my girlfriend to see Bartók violin concerto no. 2 (Alina Ibragimova) and Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 on Thursday evening. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša.

https://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2017/shostakovich-5/

Wow, this looks fab all around: program, soloist, conductor, orchestra. Have a great time!

--Bruce

[NikF]

Going with my girlfriend to see Bartók violin concerto no. 2 (Alina Ibragimova) and Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 on Thursday evening. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša.

https://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2017/shostakovich-5/

Good stuff.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Going to see Melbourne Opera's new production of Lohengrin with her on Saturday night. The MSO concert was really fantastic and we shared our opinions afterwards; she preferred the Shostakovich for its broader emotional scope and I preferred the Bartók for its orchestration unique treatment of theme and variation form. Ibragimova played an amazing encore and I have no idea what it was.

[Todd]

Looks like one side benefit of buying a download directly from the Berlin Philharmonic is that the purchaser gets a one week free pass to the Digital Concert Hall, which includes both live-streamed concerts and access to prior concerts (1400+ works).  I will be using this.  I also received a 10% voucher for the standard package, but I'm not sure about that, though for $17/month, I could listen to Berlin concerts until I've had my fill.  It's not the real thing, but it's cheap.

[André]

One of only 2 concerts I bought for this coming season: in 3 weeks, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Orchestre Métropolitain in Bruckner's 5th. Angela Cheng will be the soloist in the Strauss Burleske, a work I do not much care for. I think the symphony will be recorded by the ATMA team. YNS' Bruckner series lacks only the 1st, also to be recorded this year. It has had its ups and downs. Hopefully he'll raise the roof in the 5th !

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Next concert I'm seeing with her

https://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2017/schumann-3/

[Mahlerian]

Next concert I'm seeing with her

https://www.mso.com.au/whats-on/2017/schumann-3/

Have a great time!  Who's Trojahn, though?

[André]

Probably Manfred Trojahn, also known as a conductor (CPO Pettersson symphony no 6). I don't know his output as a composer, but it seems quite vast.

[king ubu]

Saw Trojahn's opera "Orest" during last season here and was mightily impressed!

But make sure the girlfriend still thinks you're into her and not just into Ibragimova, dude! 

One more week to wait, in the midst of the endless summer break ... but then I'll have a week full, like, full to the brim or even beyond:

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Symphony Concert 9
Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Heinz Holliger | Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Debussy | Koechlin | Holliger

SUN, 20.08. | 10.30 | Nr. 17315
KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY   
Heinz Holliger  conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja  violin

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Khamma (orchestrated by Charles Koechlin)
Charles Koechlin (1867–1950)
Les Bandar-log (Scherzo des singes), Op. 176
Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Violin Concerto Hommage à Louis Soutter

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/orchestra-of-the-lucerne-festival-academy-heinz-holliger-patricia-kopatchinskaja/417

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Identities 3
Camerata Zürich | Thomas Demenga | Thomas Sarbacher
Suk | Dvořák | Janáček

SUN, 20.08. | 16.00 | Nr. 17316
Kirchensaal MaiHof

Josef Suk (1874–1935)
Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale "St. Wenceslas," Op. 35a
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Silent Woods, Op. 68, no. 5
Rondo in G minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 94
Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46, no. 8 (arranged for cello and orchestra)
Leošs Janáček (1854–1928)
On an Overgrown Path
arranged for string orchestra by Daniel Rumler
performance with texts by Maïa Brami 

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/camerata-zurich-thomas-demenga-thomas-sarbacher/451

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Symphony Concert 11 – Monteverdi
English Baroque Soloists | Monteverdi Choir | Sir John Eliot Gardiner | soloists
Monteverdi

TUE, 22.08. | 19.30 | Nr. 17321
KKL Luzern, Concert Hall

English Baroque Soloists   
Monteverdi Choir   
Sir John Eliot Gardiner  conductor and staging
Elsa Rooke  director
Krystian Adam  Orfeo
Hana Blažiková  La Musica, Euridice
Kangmin Justin Kim  Speranza
Anna Dennis  Ninfa
Lucile Richardot  Messaggiera
Francesca Boncompagni  Proserpina
Gianluca Buratto  Caronte, Plutone
Furio Zanasi  Apollo
and additional soloists   

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
L'Orfeo
Favola in musica in a prologue and five acts

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/english-baroque-soloists-monteverdi-choir-sir-john-eliot-gardiner-soloists/419

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Wednesday to Saturday then a change of pace ... missing opening night alas, but if it hadn't been all in the same week I'd have bought tickets for all three Monteverdi operas ... anyway, Festival Météo in Mulhouse it shall be:
http://www.festival-meteo.fr/spip.php?mot1538

Mighty cool programme again (went there for the first time last year) - some names: Peter Brötzmann, Toshinori Kondo, The Necks, Pere Ubu, Hamid Drake, Frederic Rzweksi (in trio with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, no less! Curran also does a solo set), Franz Hautzinger, Isabelle Duthoit, Mette Rasmussen, Eve Risser ...

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call me crazy (really, I do so, too), but Sunday I'll be heading straight from Mulhouse to Lucerne again to close off celebrations with two more concerts (and again, were it not for Météo being in the same week, there'd have been one more concert with Kopatchinskaja):

Special Event Day – Museum Concert 3
Patricia Kopatchinskaja | Jay Campbell | Polina Leschenko
Enescu | Kodály | Ravel

SUN, 27.08. | 13.00 | Nr. 17333
KKL Luzern Kunstmuseum

George Enescu (1881–1955)
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 25 Dans le caractère populaire roumain
Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
“Tzigane”. Concert Rhapsody for Violin and Piano

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/patricia-kopatchinskaja-jay-campbell-polina-leschenko/468

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Special Event Day – Museum Concert 4
Ensemble of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY | Frédérique Cambreling
Bartók | Holliger | Veress

SUN, 27.08. | 15.00 | Nr. 17452
KKL Luzern Kunstmuseum

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
Selected Duos for two violins
Heinz Holliger (*1939)
Partita for harp
world premiere
Sándor Veress (1813–1992)
Diptychon for wind quintet 

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/ensemble-of-the-lucerne-festival-academy-frederique-cambreling/493

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Yowzah! 

This will be balm for the tired soul ... after that, I'm considering a short visit to Willisau Jazz Festival on Sep 2nd, just for the morning and afternoon concerts, but I may still be too exhausted by then 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

My next Ravinia date is this Thursday - indoors this time:

The Knights
Susan Graham, Mezzo-soprano

Purcell:   Fantasia Upon One Note
John Adams:   Common Tones in Simple Time
Canteloube:   Selections from Chants d'Auvergne
John Adams:   Chamber Symphony
Mozart:   Symphony No. 40

The Knights are new to me - apparently a "hip" (not HIP) NY-based chamber orchestra that likes to balance old and new music. Anyway, the programming sure is interesting.

[Kontrapunctus]

Just bought tickets to Daniil Trifonov's recital in San Francisco on October 20th!

Mompou :Variaciones sobre un tema di Chopin
Tchaikovsky: Un poco di Chopin, Opus 72, no.15
Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Opus 22

Chopin: Selected Mazurkas
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2

[Brian]

Just bought tickets to Daniil Trifonov's recital in San Francisco on October 20th!

Mompou :Variaciones sobre un tema di Chopin
Tchaikovsky: Un poco di Chopin, Opus 72, no.15
Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Opus 22

Chopin: Selected Mazurkas
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2

ooooooooooooohhh

So jealous.

[kishnevi]

My next Ravinia date is this Thursday - indoors this time:

The Knights
Susan Graham, Mezzo-soprano

Purcell:   Fantasia Upon One Note
John Adams:   Common Tones in Simple Time
Canteloube:   Selections from Chants d'Auvergne
John Adams:   Chamber Symphony
Mozart:   Symphony No. 40

The Knights are new to me - apparently a "hip" (not HIP) NY-based chamber orchestra that likes to balance old and new music. Anyway, the programming sure is interesting.

I have one of their recordings. I think your expectations will be met

[arpeggio]

My wife and I are leaving to attend the Staunton Music Festival tomorrow.

The festival is in Staunton, Virginia, the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

My wife and I are leaving to attend the Staunton Music Festival tomorrow.

The festival is in Staunton, Virginia, the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson.

I hope you have a great time. What's being performed?