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

[Lisztianwagner]

That was a really wonderful concert - everyone was smiling by the end, we all had such fun and felt so uplifted afterwards!

The next season looks great: Mahler 1, Symphonie Fantastique etc - hoping to be in those too!

Hope the orchestra played Wagner's preludes as this music deserves to be performed!

Joking aside, glad to hear the concert went very well, congratulations!!

[madaboutmahler]

Hope the orchestra played Wagner's preludes as this music deserves to be performed!

Joking aside, glad to hear the concert went very well, congratulations!!

It was great fun to play the tambourine part in the Lohengrin 3rd Prelude! Thank you, Ilaria - it was such a wonderful concert!

And tommorow, it's the Watford Youth Orchestra's concert! Really excited! Sounding great, I love this orchestra so much, a joy to play in!

Smetana Vltava
Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade

[DavidRoss]

Tonight -- SFO's new production of The Magic Flute. Oboy!

[Karl Henning]

Cool, Dave!

[jlaurson]

Wer ist Walton?

William Walton's symphonies and concertos are relative rarities on concert programs—especially outside English speaking countries. So when his First Symphony, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, popped up on the calendar of the Munich Philharmonic, just two weeks after they performed Walton's Violin Concerto, it was a very pleasant surprise. (Even more surprising might be that the MPhil has performed the same work as recently as seven years ago, with Rumon Gamba and—if one believes the hearsay—to alarming results.)

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/07/wer-ist-walton.html[/url]

[madaboutmahler]

Smetana Vltava
Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto
Rimsky Korsakov Scheherezade

That was such a great great concert to be part of yesterday! Went incredibly well, we were amazing, if I may say so myself! The audience response at the end was absolutely great too. Was such a happy, brilliant evening!

[bhodges]

Tonight and next Wednesday, some John Cage and a bit of Feldman at Bargemusic (yes, a concert hall floating near the Brooklyn Bridge) with the FLUX Quartet:

John Cage "Centennial Celebration" (Part II)

Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts (1949-50)
Cage: Solos from Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Cage: 30 Pieces for String Quartet (1983)

John Cage "Centennial Celebration" (Part III)

Cage: Music for ____ (1984-87)
Cage: Seven (1988)
Cage: Nocturne for Violin and Piano (1947)
Cage: Cheap Imitation (1977)
Morton Feldman: The Viola in my Life [1] (1970)

--Bruce

[Papy Oli]

At Snape next year :

In July :

Aldeburgh World Orchestra * - Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
Mahler Adagio from Symphony No.10
Shostakovich Symphony No.5

* Specially created for the London 2012 Festival (the culmination of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad), Aldeburgh World Orchestra brings together acclaimed British conductor, Sir Mark Elder and 124 top-calibre young artists (18–29 years)

Booked it on 28th Nov last year...and now only 2 days away. I am getting a wee bit excited about this one 

[Papy Oli]

Aldeburgh World Orchestra - Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
Mahler Adagio from Symphony No.10
Shostakovich Symphony No.5

Well, I never thought I'd actually say this one day this but I did enjoy the 5th more than the 10th last night !!    The Adagio, although well played, did lack some gravitas and impact which dampened my enjoyment. Maybe I was expecting too much.

The Shostakovitch 5th was an absolute ear-opener - As much as I struggle with the Barshai set in my discovery of his symphonies, hearing this work live was mind blowing...just layers of sounds hitting you one after the other...percussions, harps, double bass, flute, clarinet, cymbals, horns...out of nowhere and everywhere...I am still confused with the work structure itself, but god I left the building completely buzzing !!!

As a side-point, Mark Elder did a 10 minutes speech just after the interval to introduce the idea behind the Aldeburgh World Orchestra , the Shostakovitch 5th that would follow, background to the work, his perceptions of it, etc, to give a listening basis, as he said, to people in the audience who might not have heard the work before. I wish this could happened more often (that's maybe the second or third time I see a conductor/performer talk to the audience at Snape in 2 years?), if only to break that stage/audience barrier and involve us more... not just leaving it to an applause/bowing/walk off routine. Elder was witty, passionate, engaging in his explanations. I am sure that helped to the enjoyment of what followed.

[cjvinthechair]

Ah..a whole Proms week to look forward to, Aug. 6-12, including 4 lovely choral works: Bernstein Mass, Elgar Apostles, Berlioz Grande Messe Des Morts & Schoenberg Gurrelieder. Rest of the week's not bad either !!

Anyone else at the Proms, or have I missed you all while away ?

[madaboutmahler]

Tommorow, two concerts:

The first is a pre-Prom in which my 'String Quintet' and the other winning/highly commended pieces in the BBC Proms Inspire Competition will be performed. Have been rehearsing today, so exicted!

Then, we get free tickets to this one the same evening:

Varèse
Tuning Up

Nico Muhly
Gait
INTERVAL

Messiaen
Turangalîla Symphony

Anna Meredith
HandsFree

Cynthia Millar, ondes martenot
Joanna MacGregor, piano
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

So excited!!

[Ataraxia]

The first is a pre-Prom in which my 'String Quintet' and the other winning/highly commended pieces in the BBC Proms Inspire Competition will be performed. Have been rehearsing today, so exicted!

So excited!!

Excellent!!

[madaboutmahler]

Excellent!!

Thank you, Dave!

[cjvinthechair]

Daniel - given a day off from the Olympics; will, I hope, be at both Proms tomorrow, & hopefully at your Inspire event at 5:30. Look forward to hearing the work, and applauding the composer !

Have a great day.             Clive.

[madaboutmahler]

Daniel - given a day off from the Olympics; will, I hope, be at both Proms tomorrow, & hopefully at your Inspire event at 5:30. Look forward to hearing the work, and applauding the composer !

Have a great day.             Clive.

That's great, Clive! Hope to see you there! haha, thank you!

[North Star]

Yesterday evening, as a part of the yearly Oulunsalo soi - music festival
Lumijoki church (a village about 50 km from here)

Vivaldi:  L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3, No. 11 in d minor
Jousia Ensemble

Nando Russo (1976 - , Italian): Olos
Nando Russo, vibraphone

Verdi: String Quartet
Jousia Ensemble (arr. for 22211 strings)

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Elin Rombo (sop), Virpi Räisänen (mzo), Knut Joihannessen (harpsichord) & Jousia Ensemble

Superb performances, the Vivaldi & Pergolesi were lively spirited, and the soloists were superb. Räisänen isn't too well known outside of Finland (and even here, she's more well known near Oulu than in Helsinki, f.i.). Verdi's quartet I haven't heard too many times, but it's a good piece, but I don't think that the larger arrangement does anything favourable to it. Excellent performance, still.

Russo I hadn't heard of before, but the piece was very nice, I guess it qualifies as minimalist. Sounded like it could be on a 70s prog album.

A great concert overall, and very popular, the church was packed full with at least about 500 people. Räisänen, the organizer, was astonished when she saw the crowd waiting for tickets outside church, and assured us that the concert wouldn't start until everyone had gotten their tickets. 

[The Six]

Yuja Wang playing Tchaicovsky PC No.1 this Thursday at the Hollywood Bowl. Dudamel conducting.

I sincerly hope she causes another uproar by wearing another ridiculously revealing dress.

[North Star]

They just have to be on the same day (today), starting on the same hour. And this isn't London or NYC - it's not wise to compete, especially since there are the Olympics and summer holidays.

organ, harpsichord and vocal concert
Miklós Spányi (organ and harpsichord)
Magdy Mikaelberg (Alto).

OR

Lilli Maijala, viola
Marita Viitasalo, piano
Virpi Räisänen, mezzo
Knut Johannessen, harpsichord
Nando Russo, percussion
Pirjo Yli-Maunula, dance
Hanne Skjelbred, viola
Jussi Vähälä, cello
Jousia SQ

Frank Bridge: Two pieces for viola and piano
Juha T. Koskinen: Lamento di Lusia
Nando Russo: Contacts for Dancer & Ensemble
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951): Verklärte Nacht (sextet)

[PaulR]

It isn't for a while, but I just found out that the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra is doing Shostakovich's 14th Symphony.  That's something I am going to try to go to, as I doubt I'll have many opportunities to see that live.

[jlaurson]

Next up in Salzburg: Tamerlano with Domingo (unnecessarily, though he shan't distract, either).

So far:


Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 1 )
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-1.html