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

[Mirror Image]

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

Oh, how lucky you are to live in NYC. Yeah, I've heard the Juilliard Orchestra is really good. Look forward to reading your write-up about the concert. By the way, this Tippett work dates from his early period.

[jlaurson]

tonight:

Bruckner 7

Gubaidulina Fachwerk
(Bayan Concerto)

Geir Draugsvoll

Valery Gergiev

MPhil

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Gergiev's First Time
Gergiev's first concert after officially being announced and presented as the incoming Principal Conductor of the MPhil couldn't have been more symbolic...

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/ionarts-at-large-gergievs-first-time.html

see also:

Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic
Valery Gergiev Signs Contract With Munich Philharmonic. Here's why, and what to expect:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/valery-gergiev-signs-contract-with.html

[Obradovic]

24 FEB-Athens, Megaron
A. Dvořák: Carnival Overture
F. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
J. Sibelius: Symphony No.1
Julian Rachlin, violin, Orchestre National de France Vassily Sinaisky
Sinaisky replaces Sir Colin Davis. Hoping the 84 year old Sir Colin is well in his health

[MishaK]

CSO just announced its 2013/2014 season. Highlights for me:

- Muti does complete Verdi Macbeth
- Muti does complete Schubert symphony cycle
- MTT Mahler 9
- Denève Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
- Eschenbach Bruckner 9
- Dutoit Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
- a Beyond the Score presentation on Ives No.2!

I must say, I am most stoked about the prospect of hearing Denève do Berlioz!

[Brian]

- Denève Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

!!!!

Hmmm, I might have to visit Chicago for a weekend.

[MishaK]

!!!!

Hmmm, I might have to visit Chicago for a weekend.

His CSO debut last season was one of the best concerts I have heard in eons. Really took advantage of what that orchestra can do when it's "on".

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

CSO just announced its 2013/2014 season. Highlights for me:

- Muti does complete Verdi Macbeth
- Muti does complete Schubert symphony cycle

Assuming, of course, he doesn't get sick for half the season.

[MishaK]

Assuming, of course, he doesn't get sick for half the season.

...and decides that the best "cure" would be to share his germs with his friends in First Class on the next transatlantic flight to Italy. 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

CSO just announced its 2013/2014 season. Highlights for me:

I just read a brief overview of the season here:

http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/

At first glance, not much to get me out of the house. But I was pleased to see they're doing Schuman's 6th Symphony (with Slatkin), one of the great criminally neglected American symphonies.

[Karl Henning]

Cor, might go to Chicago to hear it!

[bhodges]

CSO just announced its 2013/2014 season. Highlights for me:

- Muti does complete Verdi Macbeth
- Muti does complete Schubert symphony cycle
- MTT Mahler 9
- Denève Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
- Eschenbach Bruckner 9
- Dutoit Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
- a Beyond the Score presentation on Ives No.2!

I must say, I am most stoked about the prospect of hearing Denève do Berlioz!

Some great stuff! Have to say, Muti's appearances here with Chicago over the last few years have been pretty fantastic. That concert Macbeth should be stunning.

On Feb. 19 here:

Henze: Whispers from Heavenly Death (1948)
Henze: Sonata (1959)
Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I (1964)

German Consulate New York
Talea Ensemble
Sylvie Robert, soprano
Steven Beck, piano
Special guest and percussionist: Robyn Schulkowsky

--Bruce

[MishaK]

That concert Macbeth should be stunning.

Or not. So far, Muti has had a track record here in Chicago of picking rather uneven vocalists. Take the new CSO Verdi Requiem recording as a case in point (his only! recording here so far - Haitink was more productive in that respect): superlative orchestral and choral performance, whose potential reference status is scuttled by a soprano past her prime and other soloist who are passable at best.

[Brian]

I just won two free tickets to a concert tomorrow night here in Dallas!

Overture on Hebrew Themes for String Quartet, Clarinet, and Piano, Op. 34....Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Quintet in C Minor, Op. 1..........................................................................Ernõ Dohnányi
Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb Major, D. 898...................................................................Franz Schubert

Gregory Allen - Piano
Nai-Yuan Hu - Violin
Philip Lewis - Violin
Che-Yen Chen - Viola
Eugene Osadchy - Cello
John Scott - Clarinet

Now I need to find someone else who wants to go...

[bhodges]

Or not. So far, Muti has had a track record here in Chicago of picking rather uneven vocalists. Take the new CSO Verdi Requiem recording as a case in point (his only! recording here so far - Haitink was more productive in that respect): superlative orchestral and choral performance, whose potential reference status is scuttled by a soprano past her prime and other soloist who are passable at best.

Oh, that's a shame (the Verdi Requiem). His cast for the concert Otello here a few years ago was just fine - and he and the orchestra were splendid. And didn't realize he hadn't recorded much yet - hope that changes. I actually wrote a note to Marc Geelhoed (@CSO Resound), asking if they'd consider releasing the Respighi Feste Romane from last year. Doesn't sound like it's in the cards, though...

--Bruce

[Fafner]

It has been a while since I last was in our local concert hall, but I plan to go next week:

Britten - Suite on English Folk Tunes
Martinů - Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Elgar - Enigma Variations

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Petr Vronský

[listener]

ELGAR= Enigma Variations  here next week (seems to be flavour of the month, or  copyright has lapsed), with a sudent orchestra supplementing the Vancouver Symphony +    BRITTEN - Violin Concerto  and DELIUS - Brigg Fair

[MishaK]

Oh, that's a shame (the Verdi Requiem). His cast for the concert Otello here a few years ago was just fine - and he and the orchestra were splendid. And didn't realize he hadn't recorded much yet - hope that changes. I actually wrote a note to Marc Geelhoed (@CSO Resound), asking if they'd consider releasing the Respighi Feste Romane from last year. Doesn't sound like it's in the cards, though...

Our dear maestro doesn't like to have to compete with his recently reissued recorded former Philadelphia or London self, it seems. And since he has practically recorded his entire repertoire already that sort of limits things. 

[Todd]

I will be hearing Marc Andre Hamelin in person on March 3.  He'll be playing an eclectic set: Berg's sonata, Gaspard, some Faure, some Rach, and some Hamelin.  Should be interesting at the very least. 

[North Star]

I will be hearing Marc Andre Hamelin in person on March 3.  He'll be playing an eclectic set: Berg's sonata, Gaspard, some Faure, some Rach, and some Hamelin.  Should be interesting at the very least.

He'll be in Finland 1st of July, playing Brahms's F minor Sonata, Op. 5 and Ives's Concord Sonata - and I won't be able to go...