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

[Brian]

Ah, thank you. I'd love to see the Enigma Variations with the LSO and Colin Davis. Having a work like Introduction & Allegro on the program wouldn't hurt either.

I saw the Enigma with the BBCPO and Vassily Sinaisky at the Proms, does that count?

[Mirror Image]

I saw the Enigma with the BBCPO and Vassily Sinaisky at the Proms, does that count?

Nope, sorry. Colin Davis is a living legend and breathes Elgar's music. Not to discount Sinaisky's performance, which I obviously haven't heard, but the Davis/LSO partnership in Elgar is something that isn't on this planet --- figuratively speaking of course.

[listener]

Enigma shows up in February in Vancouver, with Delius Brigg Fair and the Britten Violin concerto
http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/concert/12MWD03/

[TheGSMoeller]

Didn't see the Rach or DsCH, but it would have been around 2007 because that was before I went off to college and spent the concert season in Houston instead of SA.

Future GMGrs, unknowingly hanging out. SA SO was a good group, well played. I enjoyed these concerts immensely, was also surprised to see DSCH 15th on the program. Although I was a little weirded out by their venue, I was always expecting some Muppets to appear in those Spanish villa looking designs on the walls.

[TheGSMoeller]

Ah, thank you. I'd love to see the Enigma Variations with the LSO and Colin Davis. Having a work like Introduction & Allegro on the program wouldn't hurt either. By the way, how are you enjoying this Georgia weather? The 21st (first day of winter) was quite cold. I think it got down to 28 degrees. The wind certainly didn't help matters.

I am glad we finally get a little winter-like weather, I need a little variety from the seasons. But I work at a golf club so the times I had to go outside were a wee-bit nippily

[Lisz]

Looking forward to this event tomorrow. Trinity also provides such a beautiful setting.

Sunday, December 30, 4pm
Twelfth Night Festival: A Russian Christmas 
Trinity Church
Wall Street at Broadway, New York, NY
Clarion Music Society, with Steven Fox, conductor, performs works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Arvo Pärt.

In the Western world, the 30th of December is the middle day of Christmastide, while on that day the Russian Orthodox Church is just approaching the height of Advent. As part of Trinity Wall Street's Twelfth Night Festival, Clarion explores centuries of Russian settings of mystical and celebratory Christmas texts, from the earliest Kievan and Byzantine plain chant through early-Renaissance Kievan polyphony, works for the court of Catherine the Great, and thence to Slavonic motets by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Pärt. Co-presented by Trinity Wall Street, this a cappella concert takes place in the beautiful and historic Trinity Church, with Steven Fox returning to conduct there for the first time since serving as Acting Director of Music in the 2009-10 season.

[ibanezmonster]

The only two concerts I'm looking forward to in 2013 are metal concerts:

Feb.11 Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Intronaut
March 7 Between the Buried and Me, Coheed and Cambria

I've been to 3 classical concerts in my life (Orlando Philharmonic) and 0 non-classical concerts (not counting church "concerts", which number in the hundreds). I'm just apathetic about the idea of attending classical concerts. The only ones I think I would definitely attend are Mahler's 9th and my orchestral work, if it were performed. They even played Mahler's 3rd and The Rite of Spring and I ended up not going out of apathy.

[Lisz]

Looking forward to this event tomorrow. Trinity also provides such a beautiful setting.

Sunday, December 30, 4pm
Twelfth Night Festival: A Russian Christmas 
Trinity Church
Wall Street at Broadway, New York, NY
Clarion Music Society, with Steven Fox, conductor, performs works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Arvo Pärt.

In the Western world, the 30th of December is the middle day of Christmastide, while on that day the Russian Orthodox Church is just approaching the height of Advent. As part of Trinity Wall Street's Twelfth Night Festival, Clarion explores centuries of Russian settings of mystical and celebratory Christmas texts, from the earliest Kievan and Byzantine plain chant through early-Renaissance Kievan polyphony, works for the court of Catherine the Great, and thence to Slavonic motets by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky, and Pärt. Co-presented by Trinity Wall Street, this a cappella concert takes place in the beautiful and historic Trinity Church, with Steven Fox returning to conduct there for the first time since serving as Acting Director of Music in the 2009-10 season.

What a beautiful and harmonious experience this was... a packed house and a great job by both Steve Fox and Clarion. Truly elegant Byzantine chant interspersed with selections by Stravinsky, Part, Tavener, Tchaikovsky, Chesnikov, Bortniansky, and Rachmaninoff.

If you are in the NY area, the Twelfth Night Festival is truly something to enjoy. Wish and hope I can make it to the upcoming Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Moteverdi's Vespers of 1610.

Here is link to the complete Twelfth Night Festival program: http://www.gemsny.org/images/2012_12th_Night_Prog_LoRes_Final.pdf

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: HJ Lim, Ken Masur, and Hints of Scriabin
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/12/ionarts-at-large-hj-lim-ken-masur-and.html

HJ Lim is best known for a marketing blast by EMI, eager to promote the young Korean pianist's recording of the (almost*) complete Beethoven sonatas...

[listener]

If I just try to catch up with end-of-the-year purchases instead of buying more this week, I'll hear WAGNER: Tristan Prelude & Liebestod, SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony 1, and BRAHMS Violin Concerto  (Midori) live next Monday

[Mirror Image]

I am glad we finally get a little winter-like weather, I need a little variety from the seasons. But I work at a golf club so the times I had to go outside were a wee-bit nippily

Winters here in GA are always things of wonder. The weather changes so rapidly that it's hard to predict just what will be in store for us. Up North, however, they don't have to predict anything, they'll receive more snow than they can stand, but that's the price they pay for living in a northern climate. I like it warmer, so I'll stick to GA.

[Lisztianwagner]

Booked a ticket for Das Rheingold, on 24th June at Teatro alla Scala, I'm so so happy!!!

Daniel Barenboim

Wotan  Michael Volle
Donner  Ian Buchwald
Froh  Marius Vlad
Loge  Stephan Rügamer
Alberich  Johannes Martin Kränzle
Mime  Peter Bronder
Fasolt  Iain Paterson
Fafner  Alexander Tsymbalyuk
Fricka  Ekaterina Gubanova
Freia  Anna Samuil
Erda  Anna Larsson
Woglinde  Aga Mikolaj
Wellgunde  Maria Gortsevskaya
Flosshilde Anna Lapkovskaja

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Ageing Maestros and a Youthful Knight-Errant
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/01/ionarts-at-large-ageing-maestros-and.html

Haitink-reviewing by way of Masur-bashing:

...but there's also a point in saying that it is not fair to music; the composers being mistreated. Who would let a decorated but shaky doctor operate on patients, based on past merit?

On the bill: Brahms' First & Strauss' Don Quixote

[Karl Henning]

Cross-post, yo

[TheGSMoeller]

Cross-post, yo

Bravo!

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Youthful Bruckner With James Gaffigan
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/01/ionarts-at-large-youthful-bruckner-with.html

[Karl Henning]

Thanks, Greg!

[DavidRoss]

Emerson Quartet at the Napa Opera House: The classical quartet, Haydn 20:4, Mozart 499, Beethoven 59:1.

[Karl Henning]

Very nice, Dave. Please report afterwards!

[Mirror Image]

I'm looking forward to the premiere of Henning's White Nights.