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

[Mirror Image]

Chicago's Grant Park Orchestra just announced its 2013 season. One of the best lineups I've seen for this summer group. Some highlights...

http://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/the-music/2013-season

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Vaughan-Williams: Symphony No. 5
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto
Britten: War Requiem
Adams: Harmonium
Luzuriaga: Responsorio
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2

Wow...looks like a very good season. Adams' Harmonium is a work you don't get to hear much. I think, in addition to Harmonielehre and Naive & Sentimental Music, are some of his finest works IMHO.

[bhodges]

Some fascinating stuff in Milwaukee this year, including Bluebeard's Castle, The Dream of Gerontius, and Prokofiev's 6th Symphony.

I heard Milwaukee here last year, when they came to Carnegie Hall as part of the Spring for Music series. They did a fascinating program of Messiaen, Debussy and Qigang Chen - the latter a Chinese composer little known in the United States - and the audience response was really positive. Glad to hear that their innovative programming doesn't appear to be a random thing, but an ongoing effort.

--Bruce

[springrite]

Met an impressario last night and now I can get tickets to most concerts in Beijing. Everyone is coming here. Prague Chamber, Czech Phil, Lucerne, Berlin, Abbado, Pogorelich, etc. I just hope I am in town when the concerts I want to attend is scheduled. I am away on most days from late March to the end of October!

[Todd]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 2

Kalmar conducting Bruckner is something I would like to hear.  Perhaps he will conduct some with the Oregon Symphony soon.  He's quite good in Rite.

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: Mahler With Mehta and Angel Blue
Seriously, "Angel Blue" is not a stripper?

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/ionarts-at-large-mahler-with-mehta-and.html

[stingo]

Haydn - Symphony No. 1
Hummel - Trumpet Concerto
INTERMISSION
Orff - Carmina burana

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos - Conductor
David Bilger - Trumpet
Erin Morley - Soprano
Nicholas Phan - Tenor
Hugh Russell - Baritone
The Philadelphia Singers - Mixed chorus
The American Boychoir

Heard this wonderful concert last weekend. The Haydn and Hummel were good, but the Orff was outstanding. It says something about an hour plus work when you say to yourself, I'd like to hear this part or that part again.

[springrite]

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/calendar-fullseason

In 2013-14, the LA Phil will perform music by 6 Baroque composers; 3 Classical composers; 15 Romantics; and 41 20th-21st century composers.

Of the 65 composers, 26 are still alive. ~40%.

I will be in Pheonix in October for a conference. I plan to go to one of these two concerts if not both:

1:
October 19
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Anssi Karttunen, cello
Women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Nocturnes
OLIVER KNUSSEN Cello Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

2:
October 26
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

CHARLES IVES The Unanswered Question
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Violin Concerto
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

[TheGSMoeller]

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/calendar-fullseason

In 2013-14, the LA Phil will perform music by 6 Baroque composers; 3 Classical composers; 15 Romantics; and 41 20th-21st century composers.

Of the 65 composers, 26 are still alive. ~40%.

I will be in Pheonix in October for a conference. I plan to go to one of these two concerts if not both:

1:
October 19
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Anssi Karttunen, cello
Women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Nocturnes
OLIVER KNUSSEN Cello Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

2:
October 26
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

CHARLES IVES The Unanswered Question
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Violin Concerto
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Two great programs, I'm envious. 

[huntsman]

I remember seeing Pavarotti and friends some 15 years ago, but South Africa doesn't get much in this genre, and the closest I can offer is the Metallica Concert in April!

(Hey, they did play with The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra!)

[Brahmsian]

March 16th, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Mickelthwate

Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin
*Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

*Karl Stobbe (WSO Assistant Principal violinist and Associate Concertmaster)

This will be a very special evening for me, as I am bringing my sister along for her first WSO concert.  I've heard Symphonie Fantastique performed live before, and it was such a thrilling experience!  Looking forward to sharing that with my sister! 

[Karl Henning]

9 March, the next Firebrand Concert, featuring pf trios by "Papa" & Dvořák.

[bhodges]

Next month, this extravaganza at the Park Avenue Armory. Audience is dressed in white (supplied by the venue), lying on backs on the floor, and suspended on floating seats.

Stockhausen: Oktophonie (from Act II of Licht)

http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/oktophonie

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

The air may possibly be redolent of weed . . . .

[bhodges]

On Sunday afternoon, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in this program:

Margaret Mezzacappa, mezzo soprano
Zach Borichevsky, tenor
Rossen Milanov, conductor

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

--Bruce

[MishaK]

Tomorrow. Sadly, no longer with Boulez conducting and no longer including Chronochromie.

Debussy Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
Bartók Piano Concerto No. 2
Bartók Divertimento for String Orchestra
Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Cristian Macelaru, conductor

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Tomorrow. Sadly, no longer with Boulez conducting and no longer including Chronochromie.

Yeah, I'll be there for that. Even without Boulez and Messiaen, still looks like a good concert. Review already here:

http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2013/03/macelaru-fills-in-again-at-cso-with-largely-successful-results/

[Brian]

Cristian Macelaru, conductor

Oh my goodness! He was a graduate student at Rice, studying with Larry Rachleff, while I was an undergraduate there. Whenever the Rice student orchestra was called on to premiere a faculty or student composition, Macelaru got the assignment. Hope his studies have paid off.

[MishaK]

Yeah, I'll be there for that. Even without Boulez and Messiaen, still looks like a good concert. Review already here:

http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2013/03/macelaru-fills-in-again-at-cso-with-largely-successful-results/

Yeah, I'm thinking Dufour in the Prelude and Bronfman in the Bartok will be worth the trip, with or without a conductor. ;-)

[listener]

Vancouver Symphony next Monday (11th)
R. STRAUSS  Serenade in Eb    BERNSTEIN Serenade*
BEETHOVEN   Symphony no. 3 "Eroica"
James Gaffigan, guest cond,  *Vadim Gluzman, violin
rehearsal clip at https://twitter.com/VSOrchestra shows energy...
That twitter link will also get you a complete performance of the Bernstein

[Mirror Image]

http://www.laphil.com/tickets/calendar-fullseason

In 2013-14, the LA Phil will perform music by 6 Baroque composers; 3 Classical composers; 15 Romantics; and 41 20th-21st century composers.

Of the 65 composers, 26 are still alive. ~40%.

I will be in Pheonix in October for a conference. I plan to go to one of these two concerts if not both:

1:
October 19
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Anssi Karttunen, cello
Women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Nocturnes
OLIVER KNUSSEN Cello Concerto (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
BÉLA BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

2:
October 26
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

CHARLES IVES The Unanswered Question
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Violin Concerto
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Damn! Go to both, Paul!