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

[Kontrapunctus]

Helen Grimaud playing the Brahms Concerto No.1 and  Khatia Buniatishvili's solo recital, both in San Francisco. Buniatishvili is playing an especially demanding program:

LISZT Sonata in B minor

RAVEL La Valse

CHOPIN Sonata No. 2

STRAVINSKY Petrushka

[jochanaan]

... Buniatishvili is playing an especially demanding program:

LISZT Sonata in B minor

RAVEL La Valse

CHOPIN Sonata No. 2

STRAVINSKY Petrushka

*jaw drop* I hope she avoids tendinitis!!!

[Kontrapunctus]

*jaw drop* I hope she avoids tendinitis!!!

Haha, yeah, but I'll be disappointed if she doesn't play "Islamey" or "Gaspard de la nuit" for an encore!

[North Star]

Haha, yeah, but I'll be disappointed if she doesn't play "Islamey" or "Gaspard de la nuit" for an encore!

Nah.... Alkan's Le Preux is my guess

[Fafner]

Just got back from tonight's concert:

Smetana - The Bartered Bride Overture
Suk - Fairy Tale
Dvořák - In Nature's Realm
Janáček - Taras Bulba

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Petr Vronský


Not quite in the same league as Khatia Buniatishvili, Riccardo Chailly, and Wiener Philharmoniker, but it was definitely a highly enjoyable evening.

[Todd]

Just ordered my tickets to hear Hilary Hahn play Nielsen in March.

[TheGSMoeller]

Just traded in my Atlanta Symphony tickets for Feb 1st's concert of DSCH: Violin Ct. No.1 and Rach: Symphonic Dances, can't attend concert unfortunately, but I think I win in the end by attending this one on Feb. 22nd...

Robert Spano, Cond.
David Coucheron, Violin
Jessica Rivera, soprano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

RVW: The Lark Ascending
RVW: Symphony No. 4
RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem

Not big on one composer/three works type of programming, but these three pieces by RVW are diverse enough when next to each other. First time seeing these pieces performed live.

[Karl Henning]

That's a beautiful program, Greg. Pity you cannot attend the Shostakovich Op.77 date!

[Mirror Image]

Just traded in my Atlanta Symphony tickets for Feb 1st's concert of DSCH: Violin Ct. No.1 and Rach: Symphonic Dances, can't attend concert unfortunately, but I think I win in the end by attending this one on Feb. 22nd...

Robert Spano, Cond.
David Coucheron, Violin
Jessica Rivera, soprano
Brett Polegato, baritone
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

RVW: The Lark Ascending
RVW: Symphony No. 4
RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem

Not big on one composer/three works type of programming, but these three pieces by RVW are diverse enough when next to each other. First time seeing these pieces performed live.

Damn! I might buy tickets for this one, Greg. Will mark Feb. 22nd on my calender. We could meet up for sure.

[TheGSMoeller]

That's a beautiful program, Greg. Pity you cannot attend the Shostakovich Op.77 date!

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is the soloist for the Shostakovich so it is a bummer.

But, seeing RVW's 4th should make up for that. 

Damn! I might buy tickets for this one, Greg. Will mark Feb. 22nd on my calender. We could meet up for sure.

You're not going to boo and hiss at Spano are you?

[TwoPi]

Hi everyone. I'm a newbie. Here's a couple of upcoming concerts I have tickets for in Munich:

01.25.14
Sibelius Violin Concerto, Julia Fischer (have to hear this)
Brahms 4
Dresdner Phil, Michael Sanderling

02.13.14
Brahms Hayden Variations,
Brahms Double  (local talent, judgement reserved)
Sibelius Symphony 2
Muenchner Phil, Loren Maazel

No prizes for guessing two of my favorite composers, but how about the others? (Hint: I was really pi**ed to miss out on Gil Shaham playing the Berg with Mariss Jansons and the Bayerischer Rundfunk last week.)

[Mirror Image]

You're not going to boo and hiss at Spano are you?

Why sure I am because what kind of anti-Spano megalomanic do you take me for? But, seriously, no I'm not going to boo or hiss at Spano. RVW is actually a composer I think he actually does well in believe it or not which is why I'm considering that concert.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

RVW: The Lark Ascending
RVW: Symphony No. 4
RVW: Dona Nobis Pacem

That's great. And further evidence for my contention that VW is being played more often in this country - there's been a lot of him in the Chicago area in the last couple of years, too.

[jlaurson]

Tonight, in Salzburg

Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)

with Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre  et al.

Tomorrow, same place

''Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu'' Wq 240 (C.P.E.Bach)

René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, Rias Kammerchor
Miah Persson, Maximilian Schmitt, Michael Nagy

[bhodges]

Some great stuff in the next few days:

Tonight:

New York Philharmonic
Gautier Capuçon, cello
Andrey Boreyko, conductor
Tcherepnin: The Enchanted Kingdom
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3

Friday:

Joel Sachs, conductor
New Juilliard Ensemble
Pärt: La Sindone (2005, rev. 2013)
Kancheli: "Midday Prayers" ("Tagesgebete") from Life Without Christmas (1990)
Schnittke: Symphony No. 4 (1984)

Monday:

Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Hamelin: Barcarolle (New York premiere)
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, "Night Wind" Op. 25 No. 2
Schubert: 4 Impromptus, D. 935

--Bruce

[Kontrapunctus]

Hélène Grimaud playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony on February 5th. Her new CD of both Concertos is fantastic.

[North Star]

13.2.
Johannes Gustavsson & Oulu SO
Alina Pogostkina (vln)

Nielsen: VC
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3


16.3
Wendy Chen (pno) & Elina Vähälä (vln)
Paavali Jumppanen (pno) & Jaakko Kuusisto (vln)

Beethoven Violin Sonatas opp. 30/3, 47, & 96



27.03.
I'm not really a fan of an all-Brahms event, but Jumppanen ought to be brilliant.

Johannes Gustavsson & Oulu SO
Paavali Jumppanen, piano

Brahms: PC  No. 2
Brahms: Symphony No. 1


03.04.
Johannes Gustavsson & Oulu SO
Reka Szilvay (vln)

Stravinsky: Symphonies d'instruments à vent
Hartmann: Concerto Funebre
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

[NorthNYMark]

I have tickets to see the Montreal Symphony with Kent Nagano performing Mahler's Seventh next month.  However, a commitment to drive a friend home from surgery in another city may prevent me from attending.  I hope things will work out in such a way that I can end up doing both. The first movement of the seventh may be my favorite single movement in Mahler's oeuvre thus far (though I am relatively new to Mahler, so that may just mean that it is the most immediately engaging); the rest of the movements have yet to "click" with me, so I'm very curious as to how I would experience the entire work in a live setting.

[HIPster]

I have tickets to see the Montreal Symphony with Kent Nagano performing Mahler's Seventh next month.  However, a commitment to drive a friend home from surgery in another city may prevent me from attending.  I hope things will work out in such a way that I can end up doing both. The first movement of the seventh may be my favorite single movement in Mahler's oeuvre thus far (though I am relatively new to Mahler, so that may just mean that it is the most immediately engaging); the rest of the movements have yet to "click" with me, so I'm very curious as to how I would experience the entire work in a live setting.

I too hope that things work out for you and that you can attend the performance NorthNYMark!  All the best to your friend too.

Sunday, January 26th - that's tomorrow, wow! - I'm going to see The English Concert.  Stoked beyond words for this show!   

http://www.sdems.org/international-series.html

[Wakefield]

Sunday, January 26th - that's tomorrow, wow! - I'm going to see The English Concert.  Stoked beyond words for this show!   

http://www.sdems.org/international-series.html

This program looks great!

These days they are performing Handel's Theodora in USA, but the SDEMS got a purely instrumental concert. Cool.