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

[Mirror Image]

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.

That should be an excellent concert, erato. Hope you enjoy it.

[Mirror Image]

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.

Can I come with you? That WOULD be an awesome concert. All fine soloists in three fine works.

[Brahmsian]

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.

Yes, I'll hop along with you and John (MI).  Wow is right.  Would love to hear all three of these fine concertos in one evening, and with those top notch artists too! 

[North Star]

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.

This would definitely be something
BTW, John, if you're so excited about this, you should get the Herreweghe disc of the PC and CC with Andreas Staier and Christophe Coin. 

[Karl Henning]

Tomorrow night at the Barbican Centre, London:

Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 K271
Shostakovich Symphony No 4

London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Emanuel Ax piano

Yum.

[bhodges]

Tomorrow night at the Barbican Centre, London:

Mozart Piano Concerto No 9 K271
Shostakovich Symphony No 4

London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor
Emanuel Ax piano

Yum.

Yum, indeed. Haitink's live 4th with the CSO is a (fairly) recent fave.

In the midst of a very dense few days coming up (Ensemble Signal playing Georg Friedrich Haas, Gergiev/Mariinsky in Shostakovich Eighth, The Nose at the Met, and jazz pianist Jonathan Batiste), I can't wait for this at Carnegie Hall on Sunday:

The MET Orchestra
James Levine, Music Director and Conductor
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano

Verdi: Overture to I vespri Siciliani
Carter: Variations for Orchestra
Rossini: Giovanna d'Arco (orch. Salvatore Sciarrino)
Mozart: "Deh, per questo istante solo" from La clemenza di Tito
Mozart: "Non più di fiori" from La clemenza di Tito
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

--Bruce

[Brian]

Also in Euro-news: in June 2014, Anima Eterna and Jos van Immerseel will be presenting Beethoven's nine symphonies live at the Palace in Versailles!

April 22, 2014
Brussels

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

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

Now unhealthily considering making an actual trip of this, since two nights later in Amsterdam you get this:

ROSSINI: Overture, 'La scala di seta'
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5

Concertgebouw
Frank Peter Zimmermann; Krystian Zimerman; Mariss Jansons

And then two nights after that in Paris:

STRAVINSKY: Symphony in E flat
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5

Orchestre National de France; Daniele Gatti

Although the honest truth is that any given month in Europe there are about 10 amazing concerts happening, compared to here in Texas where I might find 4 a year.

Mirror Image, you can arrive in Europe earlier than the rest of us:

MESSIAEN Les offrandes oubliées
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No 2
SCRIABIN Symphony No 3 ('The Divine Poem')

Valery Gergiev conductor
Daniil Trifonov piano
London Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, April 13, London

[bhodges]

The LSO's marketing blurb places great emphasis on the 4th being "one of the loudest symphonies ever written" which I am superficial enough to consider a hopeful sign **.  I have a couple of very good seats right in the firing line.   It's amazing what really quite a small amount of money will still buy these days.   Sometimes.

** After the event: optimism fully justified.  Bloody marvelous.   Apparently they are repeating this programme at the Lincoln Center NYC on 20th October.

So glad to hear this. And my bad: I will be there, after all. (Wasn't looking far enough ahead in the calendar.)

--Bruce

[Pat B]

I just bought tickets to see Hélène Grimaud in Dallas. The program (Brahms PC 2, Dvorak 9th) is unadventurous even for me but I want to see Grimaud.

[TheGSMoeller]

Tomorrow night, first of six Atlanta SO concerts for this season.

October 12, 2013
Susanna Mälkki - conductor, David Coucheron - concertmaster
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
BARBER Violin Concerto 
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

[Brahmsian]

Tomorrow night, first of six Atlanta SO concerts for this season.

October 12, 2013
Susanna Mälkki - conductor, David Coucheron - concertmaster
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
BARBER Violin Concerto 
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Greg, hope you enjoy this concert.  I've had the opportunity to hear both the Ravel Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius 2nd, performed live in concert.  Tremendous experience hearing these pieces performed live.   

[TheGSMoeller]

Greg, hope you enjoy this concert.  I've had the opportunity to hear both the Ravel Mother Goose Suite and Sibelius 2nd, performed live in concert.  Tremendous experience hearing these pieces performed live.   

Thanks, Ray!
This will be a first for all three pieces, which is what I'm trying to accomplish this year with my ASO concerts. Pick programs containing pieces I've haven't seen live, which means no Rach Symphonic Dances or Berlioz fantastique because I've seen them multiple times, even though those are fantastic live pieces.

[Brahmsian]

Thanks, Ray!
Berlioz fantastique because I've seen them multiple times, even though those are fantastic live pieces.

I've had the fortune of hearing this performed live too.  Incredible live experience.  There were several high school students in the audience.  One was sitting beside me with his mother.  At the end of the piece, he got up at the same time with me, chanting 'Bravo'.  Could tell by the look on his face that he was completely enthralled and floored by the work, and the performance of the orchestra.  It was such a great thing to see! 

[TheGSMoeller]

I've had the fortune of hearing this performed live too.  Incredible live experience.  There were several high school students in the audience.  One was sitting beside me with his mother.  At the end of the piece, he got up at the same time with me, chanting 'Bravo'.  Could tell by the look on his face that he was completely enthralled and floored by the work, and the performance of the orchestra.  It was such a great thing to see! 

Very cool. 

[kyjo]

Tomorrow night, first of six Atlanta SO concerts for this season.

October 12, 2013
Susanna Mälkki - conductor, David Coucheron - concertmaster
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
BARBER Violin Concerto 
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

That's an awesome program, Greg. I love all three works very much.

[Mirror Image]

Tomorrow night, first of six Atlanta SO concerts for this season.

October 12, 2013
Susanna Mälkki - conductor, David Coucheron - concertmaster
RAVEL Mother Goose Suite
BARBER Violin Concerto 
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Too bad I can't meet up with you, Greg. I've got to work unfortunately. I'm definitely looking at the Volkov-led concert in May. Shostakovich's 10th and Bloch on the program. Definitely considering attending this concert. There's also another program I'm interested in with Shostakovich's 5th and Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten in November.

[TheGSMoeller]

Too bad I can't meet up with you, Greg. I've got to work unfortunately. I'm definitely looking at the Volkov-led concert in May. Shostakovich's 10th and Bloch on the program. Definitely considering attending this concert. There's also another program I'm interested in with Shostakovich's 5th and Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten in November.

ASO has a strong brass section, they should rock DSCH's 5th and 10th pretty well. You should definitely check these concerts out, John.

[listener]

tonight: RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF: Dance of the Buffoons
TCHAIKOWSKY: Piano Concerto no.2 (Siloti edition)  - Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
BERNSTEIN: On the Town, West Side Story suites
Vancouver Symphony    Bramwell Tovey, cond.
brilliant, but not profound, good pieces to hear 'live'

[Dax]

A shameless plug for the 1st performance of my solo piano version of Holst's
"The Planets" at 6.30 on Saturday 30th November at Schotts Recital Room, 48
Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB.

[knight66]

7th November, London. The LSO, Gergiev, Borodina in Berlioz Damnation of Faust.

Mike