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

[Lisztianwagner]

On Wednesday, the New York Philharmonic will be at Carnegie Hall, where it plays 2 or 3 concerts every year. Very much looking forward to this one:

New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No. 6

--Bruce

What a wonderful concert! I would have really liked to see it, Mahler No.6 is one of my absolute favourite works.

Let's hope people remember to turn their cell phones off.

[madaboutmahler]

That certainly sounds like a great concert, Bruce! I hope you enjoy it very much!

[bhodges]

After the last cell phone incident, just seeing Gilbert on the podium will be enough of a reminder--let's hope so (or there might be a riot  ).

I heard Gilbert do the piece about two years ago and liked it fine, even though he was criticized for being a trifle bland. We'll see if he has any new thoughts. But whatever the case, the orchestra always sounds terrific in Carnegie Hall.

--Bruce

[jlaurson]

Let's hope people remember to turn their cell phones off.

There's a guy with an oversized hammer on stage. That should be all the reminder necessary.

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: (Pretty, Boring) Thank God for Dogs!



Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations,  Jiří Kylián's Gods and Dogs
Bavarian State Ballet
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/04/ionarts-at-large-pretty-boring-thank.html

[madaboutmahler]

There's a guy with an oversized hammer on stage. That should be all the reminder necessary.

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Grieg in Heels, Sibelius in Dire Straits



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/05/ionarts-at-large-grieg-in-heels.html

[bhodges]

Tonight at the Met:

Janáček: The Makropulos Case - w/Karita Mattila, Jiří Behlolávek (conductor)

And on Monday, the first of Carnegie Hall's "Spring for Music" series:

Houston Symphony
Hans Graf, Music Director
Mikhail Svetlov, Bass

Shostakovich: Antiformalist Rayok
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905"

--Bruce

[Drasko]

Ionarts-at-Large: (Pretty, Boring) Thank God for Dogs!



Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations,  Jiří Kylián's Gods and Dogs
Bavarian State Ballet
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/04/ionarts-at-large-pretty-boring-thank.html

I've yet to see a bad choreography from Jiri Kylian and I've seen a dozen at least. Definitely my favorite contemporary choreographer. He has uncanny ability to seemingly derive movement directly from music without being obvious. Try DVD titled Black & White Ballets if you haven't seen it before.

[bhodges]

Tonight at the Met:

Janáček: The Makropulos Case - w/Karita Mattila, Jiří Behlolávek (conductor)

Wow, this was quite something. (I'd never heard the opera, despite being a huge Janáček fan.) Karita Mattila has to be one of the world's great Janáček singers at the moment; her work in the challenging third act here was giving me goose bumps. Behlolávek is hard to beat in this repertoire, and the orchestra sounded fantastic--too many marvelous moments to recall them all. The production, by Elijah Moshinsky (from 1996), is just fine--handsome without being controversial--and dominated by a giant backdrop of Emilia Marty's glowering eyes.

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Très cool, Bruce.

[bhodges]

Tomorrow night:

New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano

Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Magnus Lindberg: Piano Concerto No. 2 (World Premiere)         
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

--Bruce

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Dvořák: Carnival Overture
Magnus Lindberg: Piano Concerto No. 2 (World Premiere)         
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Kind of pathetic that they have to embed the Lindberg in some standard-issue Romanticism.

But speakin' of which - me, I'm looking forward to Rozhdestvensky conducts Elgar in a couple of weeks, with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra:

Froissart Overture
Introduction and Allegro
Enigma Variations

Part of a Rozh-led mini-festival of English music: there are also all-Britten and all-Walton programs.

[jlaurson]

Last couple of nights:

Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra, Shostakovich, Symphonies 6, 7, 9, and 10.

Next week: More Shostakovich (5th) with BRSO and Skrowaczewski.

A little while ago:



Ionarts-at-Large: Tristan. Oslo. Poppycock!

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/05/ionarts-at-large-poppycock-in-oslo.html

[bhodges]

Tomorrow night, concert 3 in Carnegie Hall's "Spring for Music" series. I've never heard the Busoni live (much less with someone of Hamelin's caliber) and Lacombe is supposed to be excellent.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
Hila Plitmann, soprano
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Men of the Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller, director

Varèse: Nocturnal
Weill: Symphony No. 1, "Berliner Symphonie"
Busoni: Piano Concerto

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Tomorrow night, concert 3 in Carnegie Hall's "Spring for Music" series. I've never heard the Busoni live (much less with someone of Hamelin's caliber) and Lacombe is supposed to be excellent.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
Hila Plitmann, soprano
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Men of the Westminster Symphonic Choir
Joe Miller, director

Varèse: Nocturnal
Weill: Symphony No. 1, "Berliner Symphonie"
Busoni: Piano Concerto

--Bruce

OK, is there any pianist alive who can top Hamelin? Last night he did the Busoni Piano Concerto--from memory. (For those unfamiliar with the piece, it's not only mindblowingly difficult, but 70+ minutes long.) And while many of us were cheering and applauding at the end, we were joking, "Hey, how about an encore--you know, like the Concord Sonata," he trumped all of us by actually doing an encore: Busoni's Elegy No. 4, which uses the melody from "Greensleeves." I still can't quite believe it all happened.

--Bruce

[madaboutmahler]

He is certainly an amazing pianist!

This Saturday at the Barbican,

R.Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
Metamorphosen
interval
Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons

Very excited!

[Lisztianwagner]

He is certainly an amazing pianist!

This Saturday at the Barbican,

R.Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
Metamorphosen
interval
Der Rosenkavalier Suite

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jansons

Very excited!

Ah, Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.......you have no idea about how jealous I am!!!!
Moreover, those Strauss' compositions are absolutely brilliant!

[Karl Henning]

Very cool program, Daniel!

[madaboutmahler]

Ah, Jansons & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.......you have no idea about how jealous I am!!!!
Moreover, those Strauss' compositions are absolutely brilliant!

Very cool program, Daniel!

I thought you would be rather jealous, Ilaria! If only you could come! Yes, I love all of those works!

Karl, it certainly is! Am very excited to see it!