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

[DavidW]

Okey doke Dave.

[Brahmsian]

Going to this, on Saturday night! 

Beethoven - Missa Solemnis

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Leslie Ann Bradley, soprano
Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Wiliford, tenor
Victor Engbrecht, bass
Mennonite Festival Chorus, William Baerg & Rudy Schellenberg, co-conductors

[Brahmsian]

The 2010/2011 WSO concert season schedule has been released.  Here are some of the concerts I plan to attend! My first Bruckner symphony too, so happy!!! 

September 24, 2010 - Opening Night!

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Mark O'Connor, violin
Karl Stobbe, violin

Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Mark O'Connor: Double Violin Concerto No.1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major

October 29, 2010

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Janina Fialkowska, piano

Robert Turner: Shades of Autumn
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major

March 4, 2011

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Gwen Hoebig, violin

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

April 29, 2011 - Closing concert, all Tchaikovsky program (w/ local boy James Ehnes!!)

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
James Ehnes, violin

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: Polonaise
Tchaikovsky: Violin concerto in D major
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor

October 8, 2010

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Alban Gerhardt, cello

Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

November 12, 2010

Cristian Mandeal, conductor
Bede Hanley, oboe

Schubert: Overture in D major
(In the Italian Style)
Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D major
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

January 29, 2011 - part of annual New Music Festival

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion

Randolph Peters: New Work (World Premiere)
Vincent Ho: Percussion Concerto: (World Premiere)
John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1

February 4, 2011

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

Krzysztof Penderecki: Symphony No. 7

February 18, 2011 - My first attendance of a Bruckner live symphonic performance!

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Anton Kuerti, piano

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major

March 18, 2011

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances


The full 2010/2011 season guide can be viewed here:

http://www.wso.ca/wp-content/uploads/wso_1011_seasonguide_web_lr.pdf

[karlhenning]

Very nice, Ray!

[bhodges]

The 2010/2011 WSO concert season schedule has been released.  Here are some of the concerts I plan to attend! My first Bruckner symphony too, so happy!!! 

September 24, 2010 - Opening Night!

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Mark O'Connor, violin
Karl Stobbe, violin

Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Mark O'Connor: Double Violin Concerto No.1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major

That is a very nontraditional opening night program.    O'Connor is quite something, both as a composer and performer, and I'm impressed they would include him on this kind of evening!

Tonight I'm hearing Leonard Slatkin and the Juilliard Orchestra in an all-William Schuman program:

Circus Overture
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 3

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Who's the soloist, Bruce? (You knew I'd ask!)

[bhodges]

It's a Juilliard student, Francisco Ladron de Guevara-Finck.  Have not heard him, but usually the soloists they choose in these things are outstanding.  Here's his bio:

"Mexican violinist Francisco Ladron de Guevara-Finck currently is enrolled as a senior at Juilliard and studies violin with Lewis Kaplan. He was the first-prize winner of the 1997 International Kocian Competition in the Czech Republic and has performed throughout Mexico, the United States, Germany, the Czech Republic, and in Taiwan. He began his violin studies at the age of four with Mikhail Medvid in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. He studied in Juilliard's Pre-College Division with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang in 1998 under the sponsorship of the SIVAM, a Mexican Foundation. Mr. Ladron de Guevara-Finck made his Carnegie Hall debut as part of the LinkUP! Concerts, performing with the Orchestra of St. Luke's under the direction of David Leobel. In October 2000, he was invited as featured soloist, along with Plácido Domingo, where he performed with Mexico's Bellas Artes Orchestra. In April 2004, he appeared again in Carnegie Hall as a soloist of the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In December 2008, Mr. Ladron de Guevara-Finck performed in Taipei in Ponce's Violin Concerto with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sergio Cardenas. In 2009, he attended the Tanglewood Music Festival. Last December, he was invited to participate in a master class given by Midori in Tokyo, Japan."

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Very nice.  The Schuman Vn Cto is a piece well worth hearing live, I should think!

[bhodges]

Very nice.  The Schuman Vn Cto is a piece well worth hearing live, I should think!

I heard it many, many years ago on an old Bernstein LP, with (I think) Isaac Stern as the soloist, on a recording with the Third Symphony.  Played that recording to death!  But I've never heard the piece live. 

PS, giving up some other great concerts tonight: a Lachenmann 75th birthday with the JACK Quartet, and two members of ICE doing Nono.  Oh well...

--Bruce

[WI Dan]

Feb. 23rd (or 24th, or 25th), 2011
Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä

Beethoven - Violin Concerto
(Lisa Batiashvili, violin)

Sibelius - Symphony No. 6
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7

[Brahmsian]

Feb. 23rd (or 24th, or 25th), 2011
Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä

Beethoven - Violin Concerto
(Lisa Batiashvili, violin)

Sibelius - Symphony No. 6
Sibelius - Symphony No. 7

In one concert, wow awesome Dan! 

[WI Dan]

In one concert, wow awesome Dan! 

Yeah, I'm pretty stoked, ... even though it's almost 11 months away.  Never been to a "big time" concert, before!

[SonicMan46]

Jersey Boys - Susan & I are doing an 'overnight' in Charlotte, NC (about a 90 min drive) to see this musical about Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, a group that was quite popular in my 'early' years decades ago - looking forward to the experience - plus have a couple of good restaurants lined up for our dining enjoyment! 

[owlice]

Last night, I attended the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The program:

Sibelius Finlandia
Rautavaara Incantations (for percussion and orchestra)
Beethoven Seventh Symphony

Colin Currin, percussion
Hannu Lintu, conductor

As much as I love the other two works -- and they were fabulously played -- the Rautavaara was the draw. This was the American premiere of the work; it was wonderful. I hope a recording of it becomes available soon!

[jlaurson]

Noteworthy concerts in the Washington D.C. region --

and a scoop on which of your favorite coloratura sopranos is pregnant & to be married.



WETA - May in Music
http://www.weta.org/fmblog/?p=1915

[MDL]

Is it bad form to repost something you posted a few months ago? Well, pardon me if I'm committing some grave crime against the rules of GMG etiquette, but here's a reminder about this weekend's Southbank Varèsefest:

Friday April 16th, Queen Elizabeth Hall:

Edgard Varèse: Ionisation for 13 percussionists
Edgard Varèse: Equatorial for bass & ensemble
Edgard Varèse: Density 21.5 for solo flute
Edgard Varèse/Chou Wen-Chung: Etude pour espace
Edgard Varèse: Dance for Burgess for chamber orchestra (fragment)
Edgard Varèse: La procession de Verges for tape
Edgard Varèse: Déserts for wind, piano, percussion & tape
Edgard Varèse: Poème électronique for tape

David Atherton conductor
Cathie Boyd staging
Sir John Tomlinson bass
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble
Jonathan Golove cello theremin
Natasha Farny cello theremin
Sound Intermedia

And two concerts on Sunday April 18th:

Queen Elizabeth Hall:

Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism for wind & percussion
Edgard Varèse: Un grand sommeil noir for voice & piano
Edgard Varèse: Octandre
Edgard Varèse: Offrandes for soprano & chamber orchestra
Edgard Varèse: Intégrales for wind & percussion

David Atherton conductor
Cathie Boyd staging
Elizabeth Atherton soprano
Sound Intermedia

Festival Hall:

Edgard Varèse: Nocturnal for soprano, male chorus & small orchestra
Edgard Varèse: Arcana
Edgard Varèse: Tuning Up arr. Chou Wen-Chung
Edgard Varèse: Amériques

National Youth Orchestra

Paul Daniel conductor
Cathie Boyd staging


I booked these in person at the Southbank Centre, but now, looking at the website, I realise that I could have saved 20% because I'd booked all three concerts. Bollocks! Still, there's a tip for anybody else who's thinking about going to all three concerts.

Oddly, the Festival Hall balcony is not being used for the NYO's grand finale, and I got the impression that not many tickets had been sold as of mid-January. I hope there are going to be more people in the audience than there are on stage!   

[vandermolen]

Miaskovsky Symphony No 6 (Festival Hall London, Jurowski) 28th April - can't wait to hear this live.

[offbeat]

This Saturday 17 april at royal festival hall
Mark Anthony Turnage Texan Tenebrae
Philip Glass Violin Concerto no 2
Gorecki Symphony 3

Quite excited as  first time ive been to RFH for many years
Not sure about the Glass or Turnage as never heard before
Always Liked the Gorecki despite critic wise has as many detractors as admirers.,,,,

[bhodges]

This Saturday 17 april at royal festival hall
Mark Anthony Turnage Texan Tenebrae
Philip Glass Violin Concerto no 2
Gorecki Symphony 3

Quite excited as  first time ive been to RFH for many years
Not sure about the Glass or Turnage as never heard before
Always Liked the Gorecki despite critic wise has as many detractors as admirers.,,,,

Wonderful program (speaking as an admirer of the Gorecki).  I'm not the hugest Glass fan, and haven't heard that concerto, but I have heard it's one of his best pieces.  Have only heard one CD of Turnage's work (not this piece) and he is...hm...hard to describe.  I gather he is heavily influenced by some rock music.

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Tonight at Carnegie, part of a big Andriessen festival this week:

Louis Andriessen: La Commedia (concert version, NY Premiere)

Asko | Schoenberg
Reinbert de Leeuw, Conductor
Synergy Vocals
Claron McFadden (Béatrice)
Cristina Zavalloni (Dante)
Jeroen Willems (Lucifer)
Marcel Beekman (Casella)
The Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun, Director

--Bruce