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

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MishaK

At the CSO next week:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor


Tchaikovsky -   Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)
Hindemith -   Nobilissima visione
Scriabin -   The Poem of Ecstasy


Looking forward to the Hindemith and Scriabin, in particular. I heard the Scriabin ten years ago with Boulez when Bud Herseth was still principal trumpet. Will be interesting to hear what Chris Martin makes of it.

karlhenning

At Symphony Hall this season:

13 October (Sat)
Gandolfi, The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Poulenc, Concerto for Organ, Timpani & Strings (Simon Preston)
Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
(Robt Spano conducting)

10 November (Sat)
Berg, Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff)
Mahler, Symphony No. 9

17 November (Sat)
Haydn, Symphony No. 104, London
Carter, Horn Concerto (Jas Sommerville)
Mahler, Symphony No. 1

26 January (Sat)
Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius
Davis conducting

9 February (Sat)
Martin, Petite symphonie concertante (Ann Hobson Pilot, hp; Randall Hodgkinson, pf; Mark Kroll, hpschd)
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vivian Hagner)
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3, Organ (David Christie)
Dutoit conducting

16 February (Sat)
Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D (Vadim Repin)
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, Opus 43
Elder conducting

23 February (Sat)
Mozart, Symphony No. 29 in A
Berg, Chamber Concerto for piano & violin w/ 13 winds (Isabelle Faust, Peter Serkin)
Brahms, Serenade No. 2

15 March (Sat)
Schumann, Piano Concerto (Garrick Ohlsson)
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Opus 47
Gatti conducting

27 March (Thur)
Bartók, Piano Concerto No. 3 (András Schiff)
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C, Great
Haitink conducting

12 April (Sat)
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F Minor
Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor (Yevgeny Kissin)

2 May (Fri, 7:30)
Berlioz, Les Troyens Seconde Partie, Les Troyens à Carthage

bhodges

Quote from: karlhenning on September 11, 2007, 10:32:46 AM
10 November (Sat)
Berg, Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff)
Mahler, Symphony No. 9

Levine did this same program here in 2004, with the Met Orchestra.  The Mahler was a tad slow, but the Berg was quite amazing.  Tetzlaff must be one of the work's great interpreters at the moment. 

--Bruce

karlhenning

Well, if the Mahler runs slow again, I can always catnap  ;D

karlhenning

Heard the Mahler First last maybe two seasons ago? -- also at Symphony. I seem to be curving to diminishing returns . . . I have found a little less patience with the last movement with each successive listening.

But maybe this one will reverse the curve curse . . . .

MishaK

Quote from: karlhenning on September 11, 2007, 10:45:11 AM
Heard the Mahler First last maybe two seasons ago? -- also at Symphony. I seem to be curving to diminishing returns . . . I have found a little less patience with the last movement with each successive listening.

But maybe this one will reverse the curve curse . . . .

If you're a member of operashare, try to find Dudamel's debut with the CSO. There was a broadcast that someone uploaded. If that doesn't cure your impatience with the last movement of Mahler 1, nothing will. (NB: there are (or were) two Dudamel Mahler 1s on operashare: CSO and IPO - the CSO performance is on a different level entirely)

Solitary Wanderer

Quote from: Solitary Wanderer on August 29, 2007, 03:06:54 PM
I have this next Monday. I've been offered free tickets to this annual event for the past three years [being an NZSO subscriber] but declined each time for various reasons. This year I attended an NZSO Foundation luncheon and they had a cellist from the NYO perform a few pieces and he was very good. So this year I decided to accept the invitation and I am now quite looking forward to the occasion. The Bartok should be excellent and the Belt Sander world premier interesting!

NYO [NZSO National Youth Orchestra]


PROGRAMME

RAVEL La Valse
BARTOK Concerto for Orchestra
MARGETIC Belt Sander (Composer-in-Residence - World Premiere)
DEBUSSY La Mer

FEATURED ARTISTS
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor

PERFORMANCE INFO
Since its inception in 1959, the National Youth Orchestra has played a vital role in the musical life of New Zealand. It has served as a specialised training ground for New Zealand's most gifted young musicians, many of whom have forged careers here and abroad as orchestral players, soloists, chamber musicians and teachers.

The NZSO National Youth Orchestra continues to strive for the highest level of artistic excellence and it owes a considerable debt of gratitude to its conductors, who succeed year after year in bringing together young players from diverse backgrounds and experience and, in the space of just ten days, shape them into the fine ensemble you will hear.

National Youth Orchestra

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN

Yannick Nezet-Seguin is the Artistic Director of the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal and Principal Guest Conductor of the Victoria Symphony. In 2005, he made his Australian debut with the Sydney Symphony.



This was a great concert experience last Monday night.

They brought the orchestra out as one to enthusiastic applause; so many fresh faces!

Ravel's La Valse was a joy to hear performed live with its various twists and turns. The young orchestra held it together superby and the thunderous climax was spine tingleling.

Bartoks Concerto for Orchestra was a challenging piece as I'd found it took me longer to get a handle on it in my pre-concert preperation. They performed it very well but it seemed to drag abit to my ears ???

After the break it was MARGETIC Belt Sander (Composer-in-Residence - World Premiere) and while this wasn't a classic piece of writing it was very engaging to hear/see. The composer was 'inspired' to write this after hearing an electric sanders rhythm/sounds so you can imagine the textures that were conjured up with the orchestra. The percussion especially provided a number of unique instrumemtation and sounds. It was all quite bizarre really!

The final piece was Debussy's La Mer which gets a bit overdone really, but on the night it was a highlight. In fact I prefered it to the NZSO's version last year. Great definition to the strings and the trcky six cello part in the first movement was handled perfectly.

They received a great response from the audience [which was surprisingly small]. It was a joy to see young people dedicating themselves to serious art music; a great night :)
'I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.' ~ Emily Bronte

Lilas Pastia

- Schubert 8 and Bruckner 9,  Orchestre métropolitain du grand Montréal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. There's no doubt I'm buying a ticket for that one.  I'll go on the 17th, they will be playing in one of Montreal's churches. On the 21 they play the same program again, this time in another church - the same venue they recorded the 7th in - and I think ATMA's engineeers will be making a recording.

PaulR

on the 29th, I'm going to a recital by Richard Goode at my school :)

Bonehelm

Yundi Li/Edo de Waart/Hong Kong Philharmonic - Prokofiev PC #2, Rachmaninov symphony no.3

jochanaan

Imagination + discipline = creativity

bhodges

Oh, just caught this!  Congrats and good luck tomorrow!  :D

--Bruce

Bogey

Quote from: karlhenning on September 11, 2007, 10:32:46 AM


9 February (Sat)
Martin, Petite symphonie concertante (Ann Hobson Pilot, hp; Randall Hodgkinson, pf; Mark Kroll, hpschd)
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vivian Hagner)
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3, Organ (David Christie)
Dutoit conducting



This I would love to see!
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

Quote from: karlhenning on September 11, 2007, 10:32:46 AM


13 October (Sat)

Poulenc, Concerto for Organ, Timpani & Strings (Simon Preston)

(Robt Spano conducting)


I have never heard any of Poulenc's works played live....I will have to rectify this in about 8 hours time.  8)
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz


karlhenning

Quote from: Bogey on September 15, 2007, 09:11:30 AM
I have never heard any of Poulenc's works played live....I will have to rectify this in about 8 hours time.  8)

:)

karlhenning

Quote from: Bogey on September 15, 2007, 09:09:05 AM
Quote from: karlhenning9 February (Sat)
Martin, Petite symphonie concertante (Ann Hobson Pilot, hp; Randall Hodgkinson, pf; Mark Kroll, hpschd)
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 1 (Vivian Hagner)
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 3, Organ (David Christie)
Dutoit conducting

This I would love to see!

The Saint-Saëns was the grand finale on the season opener immediately after the organ's thorough restoration at Symphony Hall.  It was such a delight, I'm queuing right up for another performance!

Bogey

Quote from: karlhenning on September 15, 2007, 09:16:09 AM
This I would love to see!


The Saint-Saëns was the grand finale on the season opener immediately after the organ's thorough restoration at Symphony Hall.  It was such a delight, I'm queuing right up for another performance!

And Dutoit conducting....heck, I would go if he was on the podium for a musical salute to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

karlhenning

I am assured that there is no truth whatever to the rumor that jochanaan does Dick van Dyke imitations . . . .