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

[bhodges]

Sweet. I'm interested in hearing how that turns out. 

Pardon me if I posted this earlier, but I heard them do these two years ago, and wrote it up, here.  This group lives these pieces.

PS, you should get their DVD if you haven't already.  Much better to actually see them in action.

--Bruce

[greg]

Cool, nice review.

[bhodges]

Cool, nice review.

Thanks!

After the Xenakis tonight, here's what's up tomorrow.  Looking forward to all of it: haven't heard the Stravinsky or the Dvořák in ages, have never heard Angela Hewitt live, and then there's the interesting premiere, part of Orpheus's series of commissions based on the Brandenburg Concertos.

Carnegie Hall

Orpheus
Angela Hewitt, Piano

STRAVINSKY: Concerto in D Major
BACH: Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1052
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: Sea Orpheus (NY Premiere)
DVOŘÁK: Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Next week at Covent Garden:

PROKOFIEV The Gambler   Antonio Pappano conducting.

You are most likely in for a real treat, assuming you like Prokofiev.  I saw the Met's production several times (thinking it will never return), and loved it.  Do report back, please!

--Bruce

[bhodges]

This is the first time that Covent Garden have staged The Gambler - and for some reason they've capped the ticket prices at £50, which means that for a change I have prime seats dead centre of the Orchestra Stalls (where it would cost £195 for Verdi or Mozart.)

I saw the Bolshoi's Fiery Angel here a couple of years ago and it was sensational.  The ROH orchestra were also on top form in last week's Rake, so I have a good feeling about this... 

Sounds like the stars are aligning!  I hope to see Fiery Angel one day, but it seems like the one Prokofiev opera that is too "provocative" for American audiences.    A friend saw that same production (perhaps in Berlin?) and said it was one of the greatest operatic experiences she had ever had!

--Bruce

[Lilas Pastia]

Thanks to a very helpful poster, who will attend the concert with me, I have secured seats for the June 24 performance of Mahler 5 at the Concertgebouw. June 25 is sold out, and only a dozen seats were available for the June 24 concert.  That Mahler centenary festival seems to be very popular!

[mahler10th]

Somewhere above I posted the last concert I went to last month featuring the RLPO, Vasily Petrenko, Mahler 1, Mahler Bach and Hans Rotts Scherzo (which is what I really went to see anyway).
Well...
Here is that sherzo in HQ video...but I can't hear my shouting at the end!  Pah!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=321913605518&ref=mf

[Sergeant Rock]

Not a concert I'll be attending but wish I were! Mahler! Cleveland! Boulez! Gerhaher! ARRRGGGHHH!!! I really hate to miss this. My best American friend is going. The bastard, gloating, sent me the notice from the orchestra's website.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
Pierre Boulez, conductor
Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano
Christian Gerhaher, baritone

MAHLER Adagio from Symphony No. 10
MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn ("The Youth's Magic Horn")


Sarge

[stingo]

Philadelphia played the Adagio recently and I quite enjoyed it.

[DavidRoss]

None.  We're too poor this year to afford the ticket prices or charitable support.  (Where's the weeping emoticon?)

[jlaurson]

tomorrow
Bruckner 5th
Bernard Haitink
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

[jlaurson]

Mahler 3rd with the Concertgebouw & Jansons tomorrow.

Review: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/02/ionarts-at-large-mahler-cycle.html

Elektra with the Munich Philharmonic & Thielemann Sunday.

Review: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/02/elektrafying.html

[bhodges]

Tonight, more premieres by that 101-year-old slacker, Elliott Carter.  Apparently they are going to play one of the new pieces, Nine By Five, twice during the evening.

Paul Hall, The Juilliard School
New York Woodwind Quintet

Carol Wincenc, Flute
Stephen Taylor, Oboe
Charles Neidich, Clarinet
Marc Goldberg, Bassoon
William Purvis, Horn

With Rolf Schulte, violin
Fred Sherry, cello
Students from the NYWQ Seminar

Carter: 8 Etudes and a Fantasy (1949-1950)
Carter: Tre Duetti (2009-2010)
Carter: Retracing II for solo horn** (2009)
Carter: Nine By Five** (2009 Commissioned by Juilliard)

Conversation with Elliott Carter

Carter: Wind Rose* (2008)
Francaix: Quintet No. 1 (1948)
Carter: Nine By Five

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Mahler 3rd with the Concertgebouw & Jansons tomorrow.

Review: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/02/ionarts-at-large-mahler-cycle.html

Nice write-up, Jens; your comment on the opening of the sixth movement was lovely.  I'm hearing the same concert next week (along with a second evening, with the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, and the Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2).

But before that, tomorrow night at Carnegie:

New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, Music Director and Conductor
Kari Kriikku, Clarinet

Wagner: Rienzi Overture
Magnus Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto (US Premiere)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Have you heard that Lindberg concerto yet, Bruce?

[bhodges]

No, I don't recall hearing it--and everyone seems to love it.  The recording is supposed to be terrific.  (And PS, this will be my first time hearing Kari Kriikku live.)  I'm going with another music writer--Lisa Hirsch, from San Francisco, whose blog is Iron Tongue of Midnight--and she was raving about the piece. 

Have you heard it?

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

The premiere recording, yes;  dynamite piece.

[Bruckner is God]

Wednesday 3rd of March, the Barbican, London:
Vienna Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel
Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring
Bruckner-Symphony no. 3

[Lilas Pastia]

Caramba! This is one I wish I could attend ! 

[Sergeant Rock]

Wednesday 3rd of March, the Barbican, London:
Vienna Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel
Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring
Bruckner-Symphony no. 3

Same program in Frankfurt Germany this weekend:

Samstag, 20. February 2010
Alte Oper Frankfurt, Großer Saal, 7:00 p.m.
Wiener Philharmoniker         
Lorin Maazel Leitung
Anton Bruckner Sinfonie Nr. 3
Igor Strawinsky Le sacre du printemps

Sarge