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

[Drasko]

Missed Belgrade Philharmonic season opener last week, and annoyingly super rare chance to hear Weill's 2nd Symphony live.

Tonight bit more mainstream repertoire:

Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Khachaturian: Flute Concerto (Rampal's transcription of Violin Cto)
Shostakovich: Symphony no.9

Sharon Bezaly - flute
Belgrade Philharmonic
Anu Tali - conducting

[NJ Joe]

Just got tix for both nights!


PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS PRESENTS THE TAKACS STRING QUARTET

The Takacs String Quartet performs all six Bartok String Quartets in Princeton October 10 & 11, 2013 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

Thursday and Friday, October 10 and 11, 2013 8 pm

TAKáCS STRING QUARTET

All 6 Bartók string quartets performed in two evenings — Under any circumstance, hearing all six of Bartók's string quartets is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To hear them played by chamber music royalty like the Takács Quartet will be truly memorable.

[springrite]

Still not sure yet if I will be free on those days, but on October 25, 26 and 27, Salonen will be conducting the LA Phil, playing The Unanswered Question, Salonen Violin Concerto, and Sibelius 5. It will be special for me as one of my first concerts in LA back in the 80's was Salonen's debut there as a guest conductor, conducting Sibelius 5!

[Karl Henning]

Just got tix for both nights!

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS PRESENTS THE TAKACS STRING QUARTET

The Takacs String Quartet performs all six Bartok String Quartets in Princeton October 10 & 11, 2013 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

Thursday and Friday, October 10 and 11, 2013 8 pm

TAKáCS STRING QUARTET

All 6 Bartók string quartets performed in two evenings — Under any circumstance, hearing all six of Bartók's string quartets is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To hear them played by chamber music royalty like the Takács Quartet will be truly memorable.

Still not sure yet if I will be free on those days, but on October 25, 26 and 27, Salonen will be conducting the LA Phil, playing The Unanswered Question, Salonen Violin Concerto, and Sibelius 5. It will be special for me as one of my first concerts in LA back in the 80's was Salonen's debut there as a guest conductor, conducting Sibelius 5!

Très cool, gents!

[bhodges]

TAKáCS STRING QUARTET

All 6 Bartók string quartets performed in two evenings — Under any circumstance, hearing all six of Bartók's string quartets is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To hear them played by chamber music royalty like the Takács Quartet will be truly memorable.

This looks terrific...

Still not sure yet if I will be free on those days, but on October 25, 26 and 27, Salonen will be conducting the LA Phil, playing The Unanswered Question, Salonen Violin Concerto, and Sibelius 5. It will be special for me as one of my first concerts in LA back in the 80's was Salonen's debut there as a guest conductor, conducting Sibelius 5!

Salonen and Josefowicz will be doing his concerto here with the New York Philharmonic, also at the end of October (after yours) - can't wait to hear it live. He's also adding the Sibelius 5, but instead of the Ives, Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.

--Bruce

[springrite]

This looks terrific...

Salonen and Josefowicz will be doing his concerto here with the New York Philharmonic, also at the end of October (after yours) - can't wait to hear it live. He's also adding the Sibelius 5, but instead of the Ives, Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.

--Bruce

I have never heard his Ives before, so that would be most interesting. I love much of his work, except anything between Mozart and Bruckner. Bach to Haydn, Mahler to Salonen himself are just wonderful!

[bhodges]

I have never heard his Ives before, so that would be most interesting. I love much of his work, except anything between Mozart and Bruckner. Bach to Haydn, Mahler to Salonen himself are just wonderful!

Yes, he's quite a superb conductor, and I'll bet he handles the Ives beautifully. (Plus, it should sound great in Disney Hall.)

--Bruce

[HIPster]

Caught my first-ever performance of Handel's Dixit Dominus last night, performed by the excellent San Diego Bach Collegium!

A gorgeous evening of music by the sea:

http://www.bachcollegiumsd.org/web/events.aspx

They are also performing tonight and I may catch that one too. . .

Good times for sure!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONCERTS PRESENTS THE TAKACS STRING QUARTET

The Takacs String Quartet performs all six Bartok String Quartets in Princeton October 10 & 11, 2013 at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

I'm envious. I was supposed to hear this at Ravinia this summer, but they had to cancel for medical reasons 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Coming up Sunday, Sept. 29:

Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra / Alan Heatherington, conductor

Bartók Hungarian Sketches
Brahms Tragic Overture, Op. 81
Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A

This whole concert was good, but the Bruckner 6 was the highlight. Nice to hear it done in an appropriately keck ("cheeky") manner (die Sechste ist die keckste, as Bruckner himself said).

This took place at the North Shore Center for the Arts in Skokie IL, in a rather intimate hall (c. 850 seats) with very nice acoustics. The orchestra includes a sizeable number of moonlighting players from CSO, Lyric Opera and other high-quality ensembles (Milwaukee, Minnesota), so the playing was very good. There was a nice reception afterward, where we got to meet the musicians.

[Karl Henning]

This whole concert was good, but the Bruckner 6 was the highlight. Nice to hear it done in an appropriately keck ("cheeky") manner (die Sechste ist die keckste, as Bruckner himself said).

This took place at the North Shore Center for the Arts in Skokie IL, in a rather intimate hall (c. 850 seats) with very nice acoustics. The orchestra includes a sizeable number of moonlighting players from CSO, Lyric Opera and other high-quality ensembles (Milwaukee, Minnesota), so the playing was very good. There was a nice reception afterward, where we got to meet the musicians.

Nice! And in spite of the plain-vanilla-ness of the title, the Hungarian Sketches are first-rate Bartók.

[stingo]

Britten - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Strauss - Oboe Concerto
Mahler - Symphony No. 4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Conductor
Richard Woodhams - Oboe
Christiane Karg - Soprano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Verizon Hall

My first concert of the season. Should be a good one.

[TheGSMoeller]

Britten - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Strauss - Oboe Concerto
Mahler - Symphony No. 4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Conductor
Richard Woodhams - Oboe
Christiane Karg - Soprano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Verizon Hall

My first concert of the season. Should be a good one.

That is a good one, stingo. Let us know how it goes.
I'm seeing the principal oboe of the Atlanta Symphony perform the Strauss with the ASO in April. Such a good concerto.

[TheGSMoeller]

Just purchased my ticket for a November performance of Wagner's Parsifal at The Lyric Opera of Chicago. Will be my first time at Lyric, planning to get a tour back stage (will definitely share pics) and hopefully meet Sir Andrew Davis. This will be my first Wagner opera to see live. Here is the info from Lyric's website.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Just purchased my ticket for a November performance of Wagner's Parsifal at The Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Hey, I might go to that too. Looking at Nov. 17 as a possible date.

First, however, comes this, later this month:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, pianist
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Walton: Symphony No. 1

[North Star]

Yesterday: Wispelwey played Haydn here. A good time to be ill.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey, I might go to that too. Looking at Nov. 17 as a possible date.

Cool. That's the date for me, matinee. 

[stingo]

Britten - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Strauss - Oboe Concerto
Mahler - Symphony No. 4

Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Conductor
Richard Woodhams - Oboe
Christiane Karg - Soprano
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Verizon Hall

My first concert of the season. Should be a good one.

A fine start to my concert season. The Britten was quite the crowd pleasure (I enjoyed it a lot as well). The Strauss Concerto was almost like a slow, quiet movement compared to the works that bookended it. Richard Woodhams (the orchestra's principal oboe) was really good - amazing to those who know the instrument. And the Mahler was (for me) the highlight of the evening, especially the third movement. Everything seemed just about right even if the brass drowned out the strings here and there in the Britten but nothing seemed rushed or too slow. I was also able to meet the maestro after the concert as he was signing copies of the orchestra's new Stravinsky/Stokowski CD. All in all - as I said above - an exciting start to my concert season and I'm looking forward to my next one in November.

[The new erato]

Honegger Pacific 231
Bernstein Age of Anxiety
Prokofiev Symphony 4

played by the Bergen Philharmonic coming Thursday under Litton.

The Prokofiev I'll guess wil be the next release on BIS, looking forward to it; their no 6 is very fine in superb sound.

[Brian]

I wonder if it's financially sound to fly to Europe for a week just to see this concert:

April 22, 2014
Brussels

SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto
SCHUMANN: Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Jean-Guihen Queyras; Isabelle Faust; AND Alexander Melnikov

Just...wow.