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

[bhodges]

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!

I would love to hear that program. 

--Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

I thought you would be rather jealous, Ilaria! If only you could come!

Yes, what a pity Leaving out Karajan, Kleiber and Bernstein, Jansons is my absolute favourite conductor.....

Enjoy the concert anyway, Daniel!

[madaboutmahler]

I would love to hear that program. 

--Bruce

Yes, what a pity Leaving out Karajan, Kleiber and Bernstein, Jansons is my absolute favourite conductor.....

Enjoy the concert anyway, Daniel!

Jansons certainly is a great conductor, I look forward to seeing him live! Thank you!

[North Star]

18.5.
Anna-Maria Helsing & Oulu Symphony Orchestra
Barnabás Kelemen, violin

Brahms: Violin Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7


21.5.
Helsinki Music Centre
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Chamber Orchestra Wien - Berlin

Mozart: Divertimento in Bb major, Violin Concertos nos 3 & 5
Rihm: Lichtes Spiel

[jlaurson]

I would love to hear that program. 

--Bruce

It's being (or was?) broadcast live on the internet, for free.

Strauss Programme Featuring Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Broadcast Live on Mezzo

Mariss Jansons is widely recognised as a Richard Strauss specialist. And so is the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, which the composer himself led a number of times in his own works during the orchestra's early years. This week, the RCO and its chief conductor Maestro Jansons are paying tribute to the composer with concerts on Wednesday, 9 May and Thursday, 10 May at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and on Saturday, 12 May at the Barbican Centre in London, where the orchestra is currently Ensemble in Residence. The programme features Also sprach Zarathustra, Metamorphosen and the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. The concert on 10 May is also being broadcast live on the international, cultural digital television channel Mezzo.

For some years now, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and French TV channel Mezzo
have been enjoying a fruitful partnership, allowing concerts by the orchestra to be broadcast
in 44 countries and 17 million households around the world. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mezzo are pleased to announce that they will continue their significant partnership over the next season.
On Friday, March 30th, St Matthews Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach was broadcasted live from the Concertgebouw, conducted by Iván Fischer.

[bhodges]

Thanks much, Jens! 

And that reminds me, these Carnegie Hall "Spring for Music" concerts are all being broadcast live on WQXR-FM, then archived for later listening.

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/

The Busoni is here:

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/programs/live-broadcasts/2012/may/09/

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

The Busoni is here:

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/programs/live-broadcasts/2012/may/09/

--Bruce

Sweet!

[jlaurson]

Gergiev's Munich Shostakovich - Symphonies 6 & 10



http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/05/gergievs-munich-shostakovich-symphonies.html

[bhodges]

Tonight, the fifth of six concerts in Carnegie Hall's terrific "Spring for Music" series. A few years ago I heard a fascinating recording of some other pieces by Chen Qigang, and around the same time he was appointed Music Director of the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart, Music Director
Xiaoduo Chen, Soprano
Meng Meng, Qingyi, and Soprano II
Wu Man, Pipa
Hong Wang, Erhu
Yang Yi, Zheng

Messiaen: Les offrandes oubliées
Debussy: La mer
Chen Qigang: Iris dévoilée (2001, commissioned by the Koussevitsky Foundation)

--Bruce

[madaboutmahler]

The RCO/Jansons in Strauss were absolutely marvellous.
Also Sprach Zarathustra was given a brilliant performance, always a treat to see live! The performance of Metamorphosen was absolutely beautiful. The strings, all 23 of them, performed the piece perfectly, without a conductor, with exceptional musicianship. A very moving experience! The Der Rosenkavalier Suite was given a stunning performance which was very very uplifting! I love that piece so much!

A great concert! 5 stars from me!

[madaboutmahler]

Booked these two proms!

Thursday 30 August

Ligeti
Atmosphères
Wagner
Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I)
Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A minor
INTERVAL
Debussy
Jeux
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor

Very lucky to get tickets for this one, apparently it's sold out now after only one day of the tickets being on sale!!!!

and also:

Sunday 2 September
Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
INTERVAL
Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly conductor

Very excited for these two!

May be booking one or two more, including the Vaughan Williams 4,5,6 concert.

Anyone else going to these?

[Lisztianwagner]

The RCO/Jansons in Strauss were absolutely marvellous.
Also Sprach Zarathustra was given a brilliant performance, always a treat to see live! The performance of Metamorphosen was absolutely beautiful. The strings, all 23 of them, performed the piece perfectly, without a conductor, with exceptional musicianship. A very moving experience! The Der Rosenkavalier Suite was given a stunning performance which was very very uplifting! I love that piece so much!

A great concert! 5 stars from me!

I was so jealous yesterday evening thinking about that concert! I'm glad to hear that it was a success and you enjoyed it, Daniel!

Booked these two proms!

Thursday 30 August

Ligeti
Atmosphères
Wagner
Lohengrin – Prelude (Act I)
Sibelius
Symphony No. 4 in A minor
INTERVAL
Debussy
Jeux
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe – Suite No. 2
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor

Very lucky to get tickets for this one, apparently it's sold out now after only one day of the tickets being on sale!!!!

and also:

Sunday 2 September
Messiaen
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
INTERVAL
Mahler
Symphony No. 6 in A minor

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly conductor

Very excited for these two!

May be booking one or two more, including the Vaughan Williams 4,5,6 concert.

Anyone else going to these?

What excellent programmes, you're so lucky!!

Hmmm, I'm still on holiday in September.....

[madaboutmahler]

I was so jealous yesterday evening thinking about that concert! I'm glad to hear that it was a success and you enjoyed it, Daniel!

What excellent programmes, you're so lucky!!

Hmmm, I'm still on holiday in September.....

Thank you, Ilaria! I do wish that you could have been there!

haha - I certainly am! I cannot wait to see the Berliner Philharmoniker! I was so moved just seeing their concert hall in Berlin, so I can't even begin to imagine what I'll feel when actually seeing them perform live....

If you're still on holiday, you should come over then! Would be wonderful to meet you!

[Lisztianwagner]

Thank you, Ilaria! I do wish that you could have been there!

haha - I certainly am! I cannot wait to see the Berliner Philharmoniker! I was so moved just seeing their concert hall in Berlin, so I can't even begin to imagine what I'll feel when actually seeing them perform live....

If you're still on holiday, you should come over then! Would be wonderful to meet you!

Thank you, Daniel!

I can absolutely share the feeling; the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the finest orchestras ( my favourite with the VPO) of the world, seeing it perfom live must be definitely amazing! Enjoy the concert for me as well!

It would certainly be, I would really like to go to England and meet you! Let's see if I could come this September....

[madaboutmahler]

Thank you, Daniel!

I can absolutely share the feeling; the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of the finest orchestras ( my favourite with the VPO) of the world, seeing it perfom live must be definitely amazing! Enjoy the concert for me as well!

It would certainly be, I would really like to go to England and meet you! Let's see if I could come this September....

Thank you, Ilaria! The Berliner Philharmoniker are just amazing, I really am so excited to see them live! Such a wonderful programme too!

It would be so wonderful! Especially if you could come to that Chailly concert too! Make sure to let me know whether you can come or not! If you can, we must meet up before!

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: The Admirable, Adorable Stanisław Skrowaczewski


http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/05/ionarts-at-large-admirable-adorable.html

When it rains, it pours. Raining Shostakovich in this case, not the most regularly performed composer in Munich, and now the fifth Symphony in as many days! And incidentally the Fifth Symphony this time – part of the regular Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra season with veteran conductor Polish Stanisław Skrowaczewski on the rostrum.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski is one of those fascinating cases of great, acknowledged, prize-winning, Pulitzer-nominated achievement that yet manages to remain underestimated. The one-time Nadia Boulanger student has worked with the perfectly underestimatable Hallé and Minnesota orchestras. He has recorded superb, but of course underestimated Shostakovich Symphonies (1 & 6, 5 & 10) with the former. And his is by far the best underrated Bruckner Symphony Cycle (with the Saarbrücken RSO on Oehms. Quote Skrowaczewski: "For me, Bruckner is one of the greatest composers, even though I cannot exactly say why." A man after my own heart!)...

[Wendell_E]

I just booked a ticket for Saturday's Louisiana Philharmonic performance of Mahler's 9th.  Well, I think I did:  I got to the end of the process, and clicked the "Buy" button, and it just sits there, saying "Waiting for response".  But I did get a confirmation e-mail, so I guess I'm OK.  We don't get a lot of Mahler down here, so far I've only heard the 1st, 2nd (on a trip to Chicago), 5th, and Das Lied von der Erde live.

Looking into the future, our local chamber music group (Mobile, AL), will be presenting the JACK quartet.  It was fun, during the final concert of the season, watching the guy in charge of programming for the Society making the season announcemnt, and trying to prepare the audience for something out of the ordinary, without scaring them off.     I've listened to the JACK's Xenakis disc several times since the announcement.

[bhodges]

I just booked a ticket for Saturday's Louisiana Philharmonic performance of Mahler's 9th.  Well, I think I did:  I got to the end of the process, and clicked the "Buy" button, and it just sits there, saying "Waiting for response".  But I did get a confirmation e-mail, so I guess I'm OK.  We don't get a lot of Mahler down here, so far I've only heard the 1st, 2nd (on a trip to Chicago), 5th, and Das Lied von der Erde live.

Looking into the future, our local chamber music group (Mobile, AL), will be presenting the JACK quartet.  It was fun, during the final concert of the season, watching the guy in charge of programming for the Society making the season announcemnt, and trying to prepare the audience for something out of the ordinary, without scaring them off.     I've listened to the JACK's Xenakis disc several times since the announcement.

Sounds like two excellent concerts. And the JACK guys are fantastic...do you know what they'll be playing? Just heard them do Xenakis's Tetras again a few months ago--they do it about as confidently as anyone I've heard.

--Bruce

[madaboutmahler]

Enjoy seeing Mahler 9 live, certainly an extremely moving, spiritual experience...  0:)

[bhodges]

On Friday at Carnegie Hall...not a huge fan of the Chopin, but will enjoy hearing Pires, and I love the other two pieces.

The Philadelphia Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, Chief Conductor
Maria João Pires, Piano
The Philadelphia Singers Chorale
David Hayes, Director

Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete)

--Bruce