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

[Chronochromie]

Welcome, Chronochromie! Cambreling & SWR's recording of Chronochromie is indeed quite good as far as I recall. And the work is certainly beautiful.

Buenos Aires, you say? Love Piazzolla!

Oddly enough I haven't heard much by him (and I have no real interest in his music atm) except the old classics everyone knows.

Give me Ginastera any day. 

[SimonNZ]

Probably a good time to give the Boulez recording of Chronochromie another play when I get home...

Those are some amazing concerts coming up in Buenos Aires. Who will be conducting the Ligeti / Kurtag concertos?

[Chronochromie]

Probably a good time to give the Boulez recording of Chronochromie another play when I get home...

Those are some amazing concerts coming up in Buenos Aires. Who will be conducting the Ligeti / Kurtag concertos?

Pablo Rus Broseta will conduct the Ensemble Modern and the OFBA.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Wasn't Beat Furrer doing a performance of his piano concerto in Buenos Aires recently?

[Chronochromie]

Wasn't Beat Furrer doing a performance of his piano concerto in Buenos Aires recently?

Yes, but according to a member of TC who went, it was cancelled for whatever reason.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yes, but according to a member of TC who went, it was cancelled for whatever reason.

Ah yeah that's right, couldn't remember if it was that concert or another one I was thinking of which he (are we talking about the same person?) was excited about.

[Chronochromie]

Ah yeah that's right, couldn't remember if it was that concert or another one I was thinking of which he (are we talking about the same person?) was excited about.

Yep, aleazk.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Yep, aleazk.

I'm trying to convince him to join GMG

[Chronochromie]

I'm trying to convince him to join GMG

Good luck with that. I come here occasionally to escape the endless modernist-traditionalist debates that made many people leave TC. Plus the composer guestbooks here are much nicer.

[ritter]

Just bought a ticket (they're almost sold out now) for the second of two concert perfromances (on Friday and Sunday this week ) of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer, with principal conductor David Afkham leading the Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus. The soloists include Bryn Terfel in the title rôle, Ricarda Merbeth as Senta, Peter Rose as Daland and Torsten Kerl as Erik.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

The Grant Park Festival schedule has been announced for Summer 2016. Some highlights:

http://chicagoclassicalreview.com/2016/01/grant-park-music-festival-to-offer-a-deftly-balanced-summer-season/

Looks like an awesome season! Never in 100 years did I think I'd have a chance to hear Martinu's oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh, but they're doing it. Thank you, Carlos Kalmar!

[Brian]

Never in 100 years did I think I'd have a chance to hear Martinu's oratorio The Epic of Gilgamesh, but they're doing it. Thank you, Carlos Kalmar!

GMG ROAD TRIP! July 1-2.

I will do my best to be there!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

GMG ROAD TRIP! July 1-2.

I will do my best to be there!

And it's free (the concert, that is - your plane ticket probably not).

[North Star]

And it's free (the concert, that is - your plane ticket probably not).

Drat.

[Karl Henning]

GMG ROAD TRIP! July 1-2.

I will do my best to be there!

And it's free (the concert, that is - your plane ticket probably not).

Hmmm . . . .

[HIPster]

Headed out the door to see the early music group Quicksilver tonight! 

http://www.sdems.org/

Quicksilver: "Fantasticus: Extravagant and Virtuosic Music from 17th-century Germany"

Led by violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, Quicksilver brings together some of the leading historically informed performers in America today. The chamber music of 17th century Germany reflects the upheavals of the time: from wars of religion and politics, to famine and plague, it was a time of ongoing crisis. Inspired by the experimental works of Italian composers, those writing in the "stylus Fantasticus" explored the sonata as an abstract form of wordless conversation, giving free reign to whatever their imagination suggested. Quicksilver's recording of this program was one of New Yorker's top ten CDs in 2014; come and hear it for yourself.

Music by Weckmann, Rosenmüller, Vierdanck, Bertali, Kerll, and Schmeltzer.

[jlaurson]

Ionarts-at-Large: National Youth Orchestra of Germany rocks Viktor Ullmann



When I saw an e-mail with the following program advertised to go down on Thursday, January 14th, at Vienna's premiere concert venue, the Konzerthaus (not to be mistaken with its premiere musical museum, the Musikverein)—

Markus Hechtle Fresko. Eine Zuflucht ("Fresco: A refuge"). (2015, Austrian premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fantasia in C minor, K.475
Viktor Ullmann, Piano Concerto op.25
* * *
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony Nr.3 "Eroica"

—I reasoned that attendance would be seemly for the following reasons, in order:

http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2016/01/ionarts-at-large-national-youth.html

[bhodges]

A quite marvelous evening last night, especially since the orchestra was in sensational shape. Hans Abrahamsen (Schnee) has written a gorgeous piece, using words from Paul Griffiths, and Barbara Hannigan is just one of the best new music singers alive. The Shostakovich was terrific: perhaps slightly restrained, but never mind, Welser-Möst and the orchestra still achieved some chilling results.

The Cleveland Orchestra
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Hans Abrahamsen: let me tell you (NY premiere)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4

--Bruce

[NikF]

Got tickets for -

Dvorák Terzetto in C major
Dvorák String Quartet No12 in F major American
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor
Boris Giltburg - Piano
Members of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

I posted in this thread of how we were going to a performance of 'The Seven Stars Symphony' by Koechlin. Well, we went and it was great to hear and experience in a live setting. Not everyone felt the same way, though... http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/14207559.Music_review__BBC_SSO_Ilan_Volkov_at_City_Halls__Glasgow/

[bhodges]

Tonight at Carnegie:

Marc-André Hamelin, Piano

MOZART Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545
BUSONI Giga, bolero e variazione (after Mozart) from An die Jugend
RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Pavane Variée (NY Premiere)
LISZT Piano Sonata in B Minor

--Bruce