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

[TheGSMoeller]

Planning a trip to see Chicago Lyric Opera within the next few months, it's between Die Meistersinger (Andrew Davis) and Rigoletto (Evan Rogister)
Wager's requires about 6 hours, if you figure in intermission. The biggest pro for Verdi's is that there is more trombone featured (which actually surprised me). Either way, will be my first Lyric Opera concert.

[jlaurson]

Tomorrow:

Turangalila -- with Mariss Jansons (of all people) and the BRSO

In the next few months my opera diet will include:

Parsifal + Tristan & Isolde (Konwitschny), Hänsel & Gretel (R.Jones), and Boris Godunow (C.Bieito!)

[JerryS]

I was looking forward to hearing the San Antonio Symphony play Dvorak's 8th Symphony tonight. I checked the website for program notes and found the program has changed considerably since I bought the season in August.

Originally:
Mozart: Symphony in D Major, K. 97
Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4
Adams: The Chairman Dances
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

Now:
Adams: Shaker Loops
Mozart: Concerto for Horn No. 4
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma Variations

I don't think I've ever seen this many changes to a program. 

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Mariss Jansons' Birthday Turangalîla
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/01/ionarts-at-large-mariss-jansons.html

[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

After Das Rheingold, I booked a ticket for Die Walküre too!! I'm looking forward to the other operas of the Ring Cycle!!

Daniel Barenboim

Siegmund  Simon O'Neill
Hunding  Mikhail Petrenko
Wotan  René Pape
Sieglinde  Waltraud Meier
Brünnhilde  Iréne Theorin
Fricka  Ekaterina Gubanova
Gerhilde  Danielle Halbwachs
Orlinde  Carola Höhn
Waltraude  Ivonne Fuchs
Schwertleite  Anaik Morel
Helmwige  Susan Foster
Siegrune  Lean Sandel-Pantaleo
Grimgerde  Nicole Piccolomini
Rossweisse Simone Schröder

[Kontrapunctus]

Pianist Nicholas Hodges in Berkeley 1/27/13:

DEBUSSY
Etudes, Books I and II

CARTER
Two Thoughts About the Piano (2007)

BUSONI
Study after Mozart

BIRTWISTLE
Gigue Machine (West Coast Premiere)

STRAVINSKY
Three Movements from Petroushka

[North Star]

Last Thursday:
Jaakko Kuusisto & Oulu Symphony
Violin soloist: Sergey Malov

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (cadenzas: Ysaÿe)
encore: Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor - III. Danse des ombres; Sarabande
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 'Italian'

Superb playing from Malov, very virtuosic, but entirely musical. Some of the best violin playing I've heard.


Next Thursday:
Anna-Maria Helsing & Oulu Symphony
Violin soloist: Nancy Zhou

Lutosławski: Little Suite
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 3 in D major, Op. 29 'Polish'

[bhodges]

Pianist Nicholas Hodges in Berkeley 1/27/13:

DEBUSSY
Etudes, Books I and II

CARTER
Two Thoughts About the Piano (2007)

BUSONI
Study after Mozart

BIRTWISTLE
Gigue Machine (West Coast Premiere)

STRAVINSKY
Three Movements from Petroushka

Just saw Hodges the other night in virtually the same program (everything except the Stravinsky) and he was quite wonderful - expecially in the Carter pieces and the Birtwistle.

Looking forward to this on Saturday:

New York Philharmonic
Jennifer Koh, violin
Lorin Maazel, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture after Shakespeare
Lutosławski: Chain II: Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Looking forward to all of it, but especially the Lutosławski, which I've never heard live.

--Bruce

[Szykneij]

Going to Symphony Hall in Boston on Sunday to see:

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

All-Beethoven program:
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"

"In 1999, Edward Said and myself formed the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, composed of musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Arab countries; countries where the open ear has been too often replaced by the unsheathed sword, to the detriment of all.

Now, over 10 years later, we have hopefully achieved an orchestra that is worthy of your ear. And one which shows that people who listen to each other, both musically and in all other ways, can achieve greater things." - Daniel Barenboim

[madaboutmahler]

Tommorow, playing the triangle part in Mahler 1 with a local orchestra, and also possibly conducting the off-stage trumpets in the opening section. Very excited!

[bhodges]

Tommorow, playing the triangle part in Mahler 1 with a local orchestra, and also possibly conducting the off-stage trumpets in the opening section. Very excited!

Good luck with the Triangle Concerto! 

Looking forward to this on Wednesday:

92nd Street Y
Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Bach: Organ Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542 (arr. Theodor Szántó)
Busoni: Sonatina seconda
Debussy: Images, Book I
Debussy: L'Isle joyeuse
Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (New York premiere)
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G major, Op. 32, No. 5
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2, Op. 36

--Bruce

[Brahmsian]

Bruce just informed me that my Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and their fantastic conductor and Musical Director, are making their way down to New York in 2014!  Excellent!! 

You may have heard this news already, and even though it's over a year away...c'mon down! The program is beyond fabulous; I love seeing this kind of imagination.

Carnegie Hall "Spring for Music"
Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate, Musical Director
Tanya Tagaq, Throat Singer
Dame Evelyn Glennie, Percussion

DEREK CHARKE 13 Inuit Throat Song Games (NY Premiere)
VINCENT HO The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (NY Premiere)
R. MURRAY SCHAFER Symphony No. 1 (NY Premiere)

[bhodges]

Bruce just informed me that my Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and their fantastic conductor and Musical Director, are making their way down to New York in 2014!  Excellent!! 

You may have heard this news already, and even though it's over a year away...c'mon down! The program is beyond fabulous; I love seeing this kind of imagination.

Carnegie Hall "Spring for Music"
Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Mickelthwate, Musical Director
Tanya Tagaq, Throat Singer
Dame Evelyn Glennie, Percussion

DEREK CHARKE 13 Inuit Throat Song Games (NY Premiere)
VINCENT HO The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (NY Premiere)
R. MURRAY SCHAFER Symphony No. 1 (NY Premiere)

I agree: this is a very creative program. Actually all of those orchestras chosen for the Spring for Music series have interesting programs, and the icing on the cake: all tickets (at Carnegie Hall) are just $25. But the sad part: 2014 will be the series' final year. I'm assuming it's a funding issue, so I hope perhaps an angel can be found.

Looking forward to this in late February:

The Metropolitan Opera
Wagner: Parsifal (new production)

Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Kundry: Katarina Dalayman
Parsifal: Jonas Kaufmann
Amfortas: Peter Mattei
Klingsor: Evgeny Nikitin
Gurnemanz: René Pape

--Bruce

[Kontrapunctus]

Just saw Hodges the other night in virtually the same program (everything except the Stravinsky) and he was quite wonderful - expecially in the Carter pieces and the Birtwistle.

Actually, the Stravinsky ended up not being on the program. It was still wonderful. I'll need to hear the Birtwistle a few more times to full assess it, but much of it certainly looked terribly difficult to play!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I'd go to all of those, Soapy!

Meanwhile some good stuff coming up in Chicago in Feb. and March:

CSO/ Salonen/ Ma:

Sibelius  Pohjola's Daughter 
Sibelius  Symphony No. 7
Lutoslawski  Cello Concerto
Tchaikovsky  Francesca da Rimini

CSO/ Boulez/ Bronfman:

Debussy  Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun 
Messiaen  Chronochromie 
Stravinsky  The Song of a Nightingale 
Bartók  Piano Concerto No. 2

[bhodges]

Just dropped a whole bundle of cash on tickets for the London Philharmonic's 2013-14 season, including another slab of Bruckner (3rd symphony) from Skrowaczewski, a Balakirev/Khachaturian/Kallinikov evening with Osmo Vänskä and Marc-André Hamelin, and Eschenbach conducting Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles.  But the ones most exciting me are, I think:

30 October 2013 Ligeti Lontano Lutoslawski Cello Concerto Schnittke Symphony No.1 Michael Jurowski conductor Johannes Moser cello

6 November 2013 Gubaidulina Offertorium Pärt Magnificat Pärt Cantus in memoriam          Benjamin Britten Pärt Berlin Mass Tõnu Kaljuste conductor Sergej Krylov violin

27 November 2013 Penderecki Violin Concerto No.1 Górecki Symphony No.3 Michał Dworzynski conductor Barnabas Kelemen violin Allison Bell soprano

Some fab stuff there - all three concerts. And I echo your comments on Salonen; I heard him do the Rite in Los Angeles about 6-7 years ago and it was one of the best readings of the piece I've ever heard.

Meanwhile, tomorrow night:

Juilliard Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
Trevor Nuckols, French horn

Tippett: "Ritual Dances" from The Midsummer Marriage (1947/1952)
Knussen: Horn Concerto in one movement (1994, New York premiere)
Turnage: Ceres (2005, New York premiere)
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 (1940)

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

Meanwhile, tomorrow night:

Juilliard Orchestra
Mark Wigglesworth, conductor
Trevor Nuckols, French horn

Tippett: "Ritual Dances" from The Midsummer Marriage (1947/1952)
Knussen: Horn Concerto in one movement (1994, New York premiere)
Turnage: Ceres (2005, New York premiere)
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 (1940)

--Bruce

Man, Tippett and Britten in the same concert? You're so lucky! I'm jealous. Both of those works are fantastic. I'd love to see the Sinfonia da Requiem live.

[bhodges]

Man, Tippett and Britten in the same concert? You're so lucky! I'm jealous. Both of those works are fantastic. I'd love to see the Sinfonia da Requiem live.

It should be an excellent evening; the Britten is the only piece on the program I know. And I've been a fan of Wigglesworth ever since hearing him do the Shostakovich 7th with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra in Amsterdam - at 11:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. 

I'm writing up the concert, so will try to remember to post the link here.

--Bruce

[Mirror Image]

It should be an excellent evening; the Britten is the only piece on the program I know. And I've been a fan of Wigglesworth ever since hearing him do the Shostakovich 7th with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra in Amsterdam - at 11:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning. 

I'm writing up the concert, so will try to remember to post the link here.

--Bruce

You've never heard Tippett's Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage? You'll enjoy this work a lot I think, Bruce. It will interesting to read your comments.

[bhodges]

You've never heard Tippett's Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage? You'll enjoy this work a lot I think, Bruce. It will interesting to read your comments.

I am familiar with other Tippett works but don't recall ever hearing this - and since I like Tippett, am eager to hear it. And the Juilliard players are excellent; the orchestra rivals any group of professional players.

Best of all, the concert is FREE.

--Bruce