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

[Karl Henning]

This Saturday at Symphony Hall:

RAVEL - Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
STRAVINSKY - Concerto for Piano and Winds
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony № 5

BSO
Peter Serkin, pf
Stéphane Denève, guest conductor

[bhodges]

This Saturday at Symphony Hall:

RAVEL - Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) Suite
STRAVINSKY - Concerto for Piano and Winds
SHOSTAKOVICH - Symphony № 5

BSO
Peter Serkin, pf
Stéphane Denève, guest conductor

I heard Serkin do the Stravinsky with the International Contemporary Ensemble at last summer's Mostly Mozart Festival. It was the last piece on the program - and brought down the house.

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Of the Stravinsky pf-&-orch pieces, that one is my easy favorite, Bruce.

[bhodges]

Fantastic - between that and the BSO, the hall acoustics and Serkin, you are probably in for a treat.

--Bruce

[bhodges]

This Friday:

Talea Ensemble
Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano
James Baker, conductor
Bohemian National Hall

Clemens Gadenstätter: Streichtrio II: Friktion (1995) *US Premiere
Bernhard Gander: ö (2004) *US Premiere
Bernhard Lang: DW 16: Songbook 1 (2004)

And on Saturday afternoon, the live broadcast from the Teresa Carreño hall in Caracas, Venezuela:

Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Los Angeles Philharmonic and Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Manuela Uhl, soprano
Julianna Di Giacomo, soprano
Kiera Duffy, soprano
Anna Larsson, alto
Charlotte Hellekant, alto
Burkhard Fritz, tenor
Brian Mulligan, baritone
Alexander Vinogradov, bass
Los Angeles Master Chorale

--Bruce

[Wanderer]

I don't usually post about the concerts I attend, but this is rather unusual in its combination of repertoire, so here goes:

11.03.2012, Megaron Concert Hall, Athens

Mozart: Andante & Variations, K.501 (Argerich/Kovacevich)
Ravel: Ma mère l'oye (Argerich/Bakopoulou)
Shostakovich: Concertino for 2 pianos, op.94 (Argerich/Bakopoulou)
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, op.73 (Argerich/Maisky)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.18 in B flat Major, K.456 (Kovacevich/Camerata Orchestra/Korsten)
Kabalevsky: Piano Concerto No.4, op.99 "Prague" (Kapelis/Camerata Orchestra/Korsten)
Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1, Hob.VIIb.1 (Maisky/Camerata Orchestra/Korsten

[B_cereus]

Just back from seeing Hilary Hahn play the Mozart VC 4. It was great! Her sound was sweet. She played one encore which I am not familiar with but I'm pretty sure it's one of the Bach. 

During the intermission she did a signing, she signed my programme & my copy of her Tchaikovsky CD   She asked me "Do you come here often?" I said no i flew specially to see her play...i was too starstruck to say anything coherent apart from saying thanks for her performance, & moved on as there was a line behind me. Anyway she seemed a very nice person. Didn't take any pictures of her at the signing as 1) I wasn't sure if it was forbidden 2) I was too shy to ask her whether she mind 3) i didnt want her thinking I was some weird crazed fan. 

[North Star]

16.2.
Jin Wang & Oulu Symphony
Trey Lee, cello

Mjaskovski: Cello Concerto in C minor
Encore: Piazzolla: Oblivion

Prokofjev: 5th Symphony

A great concert, the Mjaskovski concerto I hadn't heard before, and it sounded excellent.

[madaboutmahler]

At the academy today, I found out that students are allowed to go and watch the academy orchestra in rehearsal, so that is exactly what I spent my whole lunchtime doing, and what I intend to do probably every week now! They are rehearsing for their next concert next month which consists of:
Adams, Short Ride
Saint Saens, Violin Concerto 3 (with one of my classmates as the soloist)
Barber Adagio
Elgar Symphony no.1

They were rehearsing the Elgar first, all the way through, then the Adams and I had to leave for a class half way through the Saint Saens.
Love watching the rehearsals!

[listener]

some concerts that may be of interest in the next (2012-13) Vancouver season:
Oct. 20, 22  MAHLER 9
Dec. 9. 10  SCHUBERT 8, BRUCKNER 7
Feb. 15,16  BRITTEN Violin Cto, ELGAR "Enigma"
March 9, 11 BERNSTEIN Serenade (Vadim Gluzman)  BEETHOVEN Sym. 3
April 6, 8    BRAHMS Double cto (Christian Poltéra, Karen Gomyo)  SIBELIUS 4 Legends
June 8, 10  TCHAIKOWSKY Vn cto (Baba Skride), STRAVINSKY Firebird
June 15,17  STRAVINSKY  Fireworks, Petrouchka, Sacre
It looks like the audience tired of the Bach and Vivaldi series, it's now mainly Mo«art and Beethoven

[owlice]

Over the weekend, I heard the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Baltimore Choral Arts Society in a performance of Einhorn's Voices of Light, this accompanying the Dreyer movie The Passion of Joan of Arc. I had wondered before the concert how the solo parts would be handled, since this was written for SATB soloists plus Anonymous 4. They had just SATB, all students from Peabody; they were uniformly great! The SA handled the Anon4 lines with a wonderful purity and tone, very similar to Anon4. I even liked the soprano! The chorus and orchestra were great, too; I love the work, and they did it justice.

I went with a friend and my tall child (now 18 and a college junior); the tall child was happy to be home for a short visit not only because of the concert (and good food!), but also because the newly-released Rautavaara CD with Incantations on it, which we'd heard a couple of years ago, had arrived at the house.

I have tickets for a number of piano recitals, am looking forward to all of them, and may post about them after each one.

(Or not. :-D )

[JerryS]

Renée Fleming with the San Antonio Symphony tomorrow (Wednesday) night.

Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Gounod: Selections from the Ballet Music from Faust
Gounod: "Ô Dieu! que de bijoux! ... Ah! je ris de me voir si belle" (Jewel Song) from Faust
Gordon: Night Flight to San Francisco
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Bellamy/Howard/Wolstenholme: Endlessly
Cohen: Hallelujah
Gibbard: Soul Meets Body
Korngold: Overture to Captain Blood
Lehár: "Vilja-Lied" from Die lustige Witwe
Korngold: "Marietta's Lied" from Die tote Stadt

This concert will feature the world premiere of the orchestrated version of Ricky Ian Gordon's Night Flight to San Francisco.

[Papy Oli]

A nice first haul of tickets for the Aldeburgh Festival in June - quite a varied bunch, lots of maiden composers / works for me. 

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Peter Serkin piano
Oliver Knussen conductor

Ives - Washington's Birthday
Oliver Knussen - New work for piano and orchestra
Stravinsky - Movements for piano and orchestra
Berg - Three Movements from Lyric Suite
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Peter Serkin piano

Wolpe - Toccata in Three Parts
Takemitsu - For Away;
Alexander Goehr - 'Air', 'Air – Double'
Oliver Knussen -  Variations; Prayer-Bell Sketch;
Beethoven - Diabelli Variations

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Matthias Goerne baritone
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Lieder by Schumann and Brahms

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Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe director

Gesualdo - Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday and Holy Saturday; Benedictus; Miserere Mei.

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Menahem Pressler piano

Mozart - Rondo in A minor K511
Beethoven - Sonata No.17 in D minor Op.31, No.2
Chopin - Nocturne in D flat Op.27 No.2; Ballade No.3 in A flat Op.47
György Kurtág - New work
Schubert - Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat D960

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Dezsö Ránki - piano

Barnabás Dukay - Rondino, that speaks to the heart; ...made of sunlight, stones and water... (UK premiere)
Haydn - Sonata in E flat Hob.XVI/49
Liszt  - Unstern! ; En rêve, Mephisto Waltz No.4, Impromptu, Toccata, Mephisto-Polka, Wiegenlied
Bartók - Romanian Christmas Songs; For Children (selection); Out of Doors

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Alfred Brendel - Lecture : Liszt, Genius of Expression: an illustrated lecture

Schumann called him a 'genius of expression' but not only was Liszt the greatest of pianists but also, in Wagner's words, 'the most musical of musicians'.
His compositions are of uneven merit; the most important, however, stand besides those of Chopin and Schumann. Perhaps no other composer has traversed such a wide musical distance in a life that started with his early years of brilliance and exuberance to the ascetic 'bitterness of heart' in the final decade.
With piano illustrations, Alfred Brendel's lecture tries to give an unbiased picture of this many-faceted man.

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group*
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano / Dawn Upshaw - soprano* 
EXAUDI / Oliver Knussen - conductor

Harrison Birtwistle - Cantus Iambeus
Bartók - Three Village Scenes
Elliott Carter - Interventions for piano and orchestra (UK premiere)
Oliver Knussen -  Requiem – Songs for Sue*
Ives - The Fourth of July; Three Places in New England

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Hesperion XXI  / Jordi Savall - director

'Mare nostrum'  - A concert with music from Christian, Muslim and Jewish traditions around the Mediterranean

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Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra  / Musicians from Britten–Pears Orchestra, Aldeburgh Young Musicians
James Sinclair - conductor

Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Ives - Universe Symphony (European premiere)

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[Lethevich]

I just witnessed a 1st violinist turn Haydn's Mercury symphony into a tapdancing concerto

[johnshade]

Tallahasssee Symphony Orchestra , March 17, at Florida State University: Concert includes Brahms Symphony No. 1 !!
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[Mirror Image]

Tallahasssee Symphony Orchestra , March 17, at Florida State University: Concert includes Brahms Symphony No. 1 !!
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So predictable. Why don't they perform some uniquie repertoire?

[bhodges]

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group*
Pierre-Laurent Aimard - piano / Dawn Upshaw - soprano* 
EXAUDI / Oliver Knussen - conductor

Harrison Birtwistle - Cantus Iambeus
Bartók - Three Village Scenes
Elliott Carter - Interventions for piano and orchestra (UK premiere)
Oliver Knussen -  Requiem – Songs for Sue*
Ives - The Fourth of July; Three Places in New England

Wow. What a group of concerts! The one above looks especially fine, but all of them look very tasty. Just heard Savall live two years ago and he was sensational.

Tonight, hearing the superb Talea Ensemble in a bunch of new pieces:

Victor Adan/ Douglas Repetto: Tractus (2011)
Hans Thomalla: Capriccio (2012) *World Premiere
John Zorn: Bateau Ivre (2011)
Eric Chasalow: New Work (2012) *World Premiere
Ashley Rose Fure: therefore i was (2012) *World Premiere
Eric Wubbels: New Work (2012) *World Premiere

--Bruce

[jlaurson]

A bit of Late-night Bach this evening:

Klavierübung III with Pieter Van Dijk in the Oslo "Domkirke"

[johnshade]

So predictable. Why don't they perform some uniquie repertoire?

Unique (not uniquie) repertoire is performed.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Coming up on the 24th: one of Moscow's numerous orchestras whose names I can't quite get straight (it's named after Svetlanov) in the following program:

Webern: Passacaglia
Berg: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" (in Mahler edition)

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Renaud Capuçon, violin

Especially looking forward to the Webern and Berg. But what is this "Eroica" edited by Mahler?