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

[Phrygian]

Leonidas Kavakos. His Sibelius recording is rather controversial around here (which probably does not mean anything about a live performance 20 years later). I haven't heard it but I liked what I have heard by him.

Thank you for reminding me!!  Here he is with Gergiev playing the Brahms Concerto.  It always amuses me to watch Gergiev's conducting style with those little finger flutters!!  And the orchestra gives a big, muscular sound in response!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuP32MmOTyw

Last night I watched a U-Tube performance of Joshua Bell playing the Sibelius with the Oslo Philharmonic (all hail Norway!) and it was a fine account.  What a musician!! 

Next week I'll be at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.  It's Gergiev - again.

[Wanderer]

May 1st, at the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens:

Europakonzert of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor
Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Giocchino Rossini: Semiramide Overture

Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor       

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "Rhenish"

[Drasko]

Tonight:

Beethoven - Coriolan Ov.
Haydn - Symphony No.100
Beethoven - Symphony No.4

Belgrade Philharmonic
Michail Jurowski (cond.)

Pretty classic evening, but I quite like both Beethoven pieces, and Haydn might be a first time hearing (live at least).

[Mookalafalas]

Steven Isserliss is coming here in a about 3 weeks. I expect I'll go--although I haven't bought tickets yet...

[sabrina]

Sleeping Beauty ballet at Scala theatre in Milan, on September 26th!

[bhodges]

Next week, two concerts with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall:

16 April
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director and Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin

Shostakovich: Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

17 April
Mahler: Symphony No. 6



--Bruce

[Phrygian]

Next week, two concerts with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall:

16 April
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director and Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin

Shostakovich: Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

17 April
Mahler: Symphony No. 6



--Bruce

Andris Nelsons is excellent;  I saw him in Vienna in 2011 conducting the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.

Tuesday night I'm going to see this jazz pianist at the Wiener Konzerthaus:

http://www.fredhersch.com/

[MishaK]

Sunday:

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano

Cage Six Melodies
Lang light moving
Bach Partita No. 3 for Violin
Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano
Auerbach Speak, Memory
Schumann Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Sunday:

Hilary Hahn, violin
Cory Smythe, piano

Cage Six Melodies
Lang light moving
Bach Partita No. 3 for Violin
Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano
Auerbach Speak, Memory
Schumann Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano

Looks like an interesting and intelligent mix of things on that program. (Too bad I can't go to it myself.)

[Brian]

Shostakovich: Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

FYI the two Shosty pieces are being recorded for Deutsche Grammophon.

[Brian]

Well, I WAS planning to see the Dallas Symphony do Mahler's Third Symphony live, but tickets are now $368.00. Three hundred sixty-eight. Even the back row of the highest balcony is over $120.

Pardon my French, but fuck that shit.

[Karl Henning]

That's appalling.

[North Star]

That's appalling.

To say the least.

It's certainly not the land of the free concerts.

[Brian]

So the Houston Symphony is doing Mahler's Third the weekend before Dallas, ALSO as their season finale, and the tickets are much more reasonable. In fact, driving down to Houston and back, and attending a baseball game while I'm there, will still come out cheaper.

So that decision's made!

[TheGSMoeller]

Well, I WAS planning to see the Dallas Symphony do Mahler's Third Symphony live, but tickets are now $368.00. Three hundred sixty-eight. Even the back row of the highest balcony is over $120.

Pardon my French, but fuck that shit.

Reminds me of Dallas, always pretending to be worth more than it really is. 

[TheGSMoeller]

I haven't been to one Atlanta Symphony concert this year, mostly because two of the programs I really wanted to see were cancelled due to the lockout and because nothing else really interested me, and they have yet to release next year's schedule which I find very troubling.

Anyway, concerts for the future are looking like Grant Park Symphony performing  Bruckner 6th, and perhaps getting in town early enough to see Dvorak's 6th as well. And Next fall seeing Lyric Opera's production of Berg's Wozzeck with Music Director Sir Andrew Davis conducting.

[EigenUser]

So the Houston Symphony is doing Mahler's Third the weekend before Dallas, ALSO as their season finale, and the tickets are much more reasonable. In fact, driving down to Houston and back, and attending a baseball game while I'm there, will still come out cheaper.

So that decision's made!

I'm traveling to Chicago to see Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie next month (using flight/hotel points)... Then I will see it again when the NY Phil plays it in March 2016.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

And Next fall seeing Lyric Opera's production of Berg's Wozzeck with Music Director Sir Andrew Davis conducting.

I'm planning to go to that one...

I'm traveling to Chicago to see Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie next month

...and that one!

[Brian]

I'm traveling to Chicago to see Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie next month (using flight/hotel points)... Then I will see it again when the NY Phil plays it in March 2016.

Farthest I've ever traveled is 1,000 miles (to Warsaw from London to see Warsaw/Wit do Mahler's Third). No regrets at all, it was the best concert of my life. So - enjoy!!

[MishaK]

...and that one!

I'm going to the Turangalila as well. Which performances are you guys attending? I'm going to the Saturday performance. GMG-mini-reunion? Also going to the other two Salonen programs in May, Saturdays again.