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

[jlaurson]

Next up in Salzburg: Beethoven Quartets with the Hagen Quartet, Part II

Most recently:


Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 2 )
Handel Tamerlano

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-2.html



Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 3 )
Christian Gerhaher Liederabend

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-3.html

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 4 )
Beethoven Cycle • Hagen Quartet

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-4.html

Tonight: Georges Bizet • Carmen - with Rattle and the BPh, Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 5 )
The 2012 Kit-Kat Conductor
Young Conductors Award • Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-5.html

Tonight: Georges Bizet • Carmen - with Rattle and the BPh, Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann

[Papy Oli]

Just back from :

Tuesday 14 August 2012  - Snape Proms
Leif-Ove Andsnes - piano
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53; 'Waldstein'; Piano Sonata in F, Op.54
Chopin - 3 Waltzes Op.70; Ballades No.1 in G minor; Op.23 and No.3 in A flat, Op.47; Waltz Op.42 in A flat; Nocturne Op.62, No.1.

Plain mechanical, Cold, Dull, Lifeless... hated it from start to finish... I'd rather only listen to Ives, Knussen, Stockhausen, Xenakis for the rest of my life than having to sit through another recital like this one !!

Ballade No.1 is my favorite piano work bar none, and he made me long for the end of it... Maybe I had an off-day...   

[Mountain Goat]

Tomorrow night at the Proms:

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Manze

[TheGSMoeller]

Tomorrow night at the Proms:

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Andrew Manze

is that one concert?

[cjvinthechair]

It was - & live on the good old BBC !
Putting in a plug for the return to GB, after 10 years I believe, of the Vienna Boys' Choir in late Sept./early Oct.. I'm catching up with them in Birmingham.

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 6 )
Salzburg contemporary 8
B.A.Zimmermann | Ecclesiastic Action

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-6.html


Next week: Richard Wagner • Dutchman | Tannhaeuser | Lohengrin | Tristan & Isolde | Parsifal - in Bayreuth

[bhodges]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 6 )
Salzburg contemporary 8
B.A.Zimmermann | Ecclesiastic Action

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-6.html

"Now it's a fig leaf of acknowledgement that classical music may be more than a sound-museum and convenient excuse for red-carpet photo ops in fancy dress with age-inappropriate girlfriends."

Nice!

--Bruce

[Mountain Goat]

is that one concert?

Yes, and what a fantastic concert it was - best Prom so far. I'm really glad to have made the trek to London for this one. Even the whingers on the Radio 3 forum couldn't find too much to criticise!

[jlaurson]

Notes from the 2012 Salzburg Festival ( 7 )
Salzburg contemporary 9
H.Holliger | E.Carter et al.

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/notes-from-2012-salzburg-festival-7.html

[Concord]

[Marc]

Tomorrow in the Martinikerk Groningen, on both organs:



Lucky me.

[Papy Oli]

On Sunday at Snape :

Beethoven: Music for Cello and Piano

Steven Isserlis (cello) - Robert Levin (fortepiano)

Beethoven
12 Variations on a Theme from Handel's'Judas Maccabeus', WoO 45
Cello Sonata in F, Op.5 No.1
12 Variations in F on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen', Op.66
Horn Sonata Op.17, trans. for cello
Cello Sonata in A, Op.69

[Concord]

The press relase for this concert said they would be performing Part I, which clocks in at 15 minutes. I spoke with the conductor, who said that was a mistake. They will present the whole 40-minute work, which three times as exciting.

[bhodges]

(Very nice poster aside...)

Pierrot Lunaire is one of those pieces - like Beethoven's Eroica or Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - that should be heard every year if possible, just to be reminded of what a startling, revolutionary thing it is.

--Bruce

[Concord]

(Very nice poster aside...)

The German Society sent me one for my cubicle.

This afternoon I interviewed Noel Archambeault, the soprano soloist. A very cheerful person. Don't know if it was nerves or what, but she laughed quite a bit. I should get a good article out of it.

May I quote you on the every year thing?

[bhodges]

The German Society sent me one for my cubicle.

Fantastic, it's quite lovely - might be the most attractive ad for that piece I've seen.

May I quote you on the every year thing?

Sure, I'd be honored.

--Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

Just booked the ticket!!!

Next November:

Richard Wagner
Der Ring des Nibelungen - Siegfried

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim

Siegfried Lance Ryan   
Mime  Peter Bronder
Der Wanderer  Juha Uusitalo
Alberich  Johannes Martin Kränzle
Fafner Dean Peterson
Erda  Anna Larsson
Brünnhilde  Nina Stemme
Stimme des Waldvogels  Rinnat Moriah

[madaboutmahler]

That's great, Ilaria!

For me, the first of my 4 proms over the next 2 weeks is tonight! Very excited!

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Symphony No.9

Delius
Violin Concerto

INTERVAL
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10 in E minor

Tasmin Little
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko