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

[Karl Henning]

Looking at the 2016-17 seasons of Finnish RSO and Helsinki Philharmonic (where Susanna Mälkki will be the new chief conductor), I do see there would be some benefits to living in (or close to) Helsinki. Mälkki is bringing an awful lot of French modernists to her programs: Ravel, Boulez, Messiaen (Et exspecto, Ascencion, Turangaîla), Dutilleux, Debussy, Maresz, Attahir, Francesconi-Duende, Murail, and Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques. And then there's gobs of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, and Ligeti, Gubaidulina, Lindberg, Saariaho.

As for the FRSO, there's an all-Stravinsky program with Salonen, Currentzis and Kopatchinskaja's Ligeti VC and Mahler 1st, Kavakos' LvB VC and Dvorak 7 ( he conducts, too), Holliger and Faust's Berg VC, Trifonov's Ravel G major, Nagano's Bruckner 8, Oramo's Elgar 2nd. Oh, and Glitburg plays Proky PC2 with Vassily Sinaisky & HPO, and Mustonen with Lintu & FRSO.

There's some Mahler, Sibelius (Vänskä conducts The Tempest - the whole thing, and numerous other works), Haydn (2 symphonies and The Seasons), Mozart (lots) too.

http://helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi/en/concerts
http://yle.fi/aihe/rso/konsertit-kausi-2016-2017

Nice!

[Drasko]

next month:

Hummel - Bassoon Concerto
Bruckner - Symphony No.6

principal bassoonist of the orchestra
Belgrade Philharmonic
Hans Graf

[bhodges]

Looking at the 2016-17 seasons of Finnish RSO and Helsinki Philharmonic (where Susanna Mälkki will be the new chief conductor), I do see there would be some benefits to living in (or close to) Helsinki. Mälkki is bringing an awful lot of French modernists to her programs: Ravel, Boulez, Messiaen (Et exspecto, Ascencion, Turangaîla), Dutilleux, Debussy, Maresz, Attahir, Francesconi-Duende, Murail, and Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques. And then there's gobs of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Szymanowski, and Ligeti, Gubaidulina, Lindberg, Saariaho.

As for the FRSO, there's an all-Stravinsky program with Salonen, Currentzis and Kopatchinskaja's Ligeti VC and Mahler 1st, Kavakos' LvB VC and Dvorak 7 ( he conducts, too), Holliger and Faust's Berg VC, Trifonov's Ravel G major, Nagano's Bruckner 8, Oramo's Elgar 2nd. Oh, and Glitburg plays Proky PC2 with Vassily Sinaisky & HPO, and Mustonen with Lintu & FRSO.

There's some Mahler, Sibelius (Vänskä conducts The Tempest - the whole thing, and numerous other works), Haydn (2 symphonies and The Seasons), Mozart (lots) too.

http://helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi/en/concerts
http://yle.fi/aihe/rso/konsertit-kausi-2016-2017

You guys are SO lucky. (I highlighted some faves, but really, you mention so much, it's hard to know where to start.) Mälkki is marvelous - have heard her live several times, in contemporary repertoire - and it's eye-opening to see her given so much programming freedom.

The other night I heard pianist Irina Kataeva-Aimard (yes, his ex-wife) in this program, utterly fascinating. This was like a seminar in Russian piano music from the early 20th century.

Scriabin: Five Preludes, Op. 74 (1914)
Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Op. 17 (1912)
Boris Pasternak: Two Preludes (1906)
Vladimir Shcherbachev: Six Inventions (1921-22)
Nikolai Roslavets: Five Preludes (1919-22)
Alexander Raskatov: Consolation (1989)
Shostakovich: Ten Aphorisms, Op. 13 (1927)
Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in d minor, Op. 87 (1951)

--Bruce

[Obradovic]

12 MAY, Athens Megaron

W.A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No.3
F. Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque
M. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch: Ravel)

Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonidas Kavakos, violinist & conductor

[king ubu]

just bought tickets for:

13 June 2016 - Tonhalle, Zurich
Rudolf Buchbinder

Johann Sebastian Bach: Englische Suite Nr. 3 g-Moll BWV 808
Franz Schubert: Vier Impromptus D 899
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate Nr. 6 F-Dur op. 10 Nr. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonate Nr. 23 f-Moll op. 57 «Appassionata»


15 June 2016 - Theater Rigiblick, Zurich
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart    

Johanna Zimmer    Hoher Sopran
Susanne Leitz-Lorey    Lyrischer Sopran
Truike van der Poel    Mezzosopran
Daniel Gloger    Countertenor
Martin Nagy    Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena    Bariton
Andreas Fischer    Bass

Georges Aperghis: Vittriool für sechs Stimmen (2001)
Friedrich Cerha: Zwei Szenen für sieben Stimmen (2010/11)
Mischa Käser: Präludien III für sechs Stimmen (Uraufführung)
Gabriel Dharmoo: Notre meute für fünf Stimmen (2012)
Carola Bauckholt: Nein allein (2000)
Christoph Ogiermann: Parole für vier Stimmen und Elektronik (2012)


yay!

[NikF]

We have tickets for this -

Malcolm Martineau (piano) and Anne Schwanewilms.

[The new erato]

I see Bergen opens with Mahler 5 under Gardner, and then this under Mark Elder:

Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Gustav Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj Symfoni nr. 15

But overall yoo many chestnut for me this autumn.

[Mirror Image]

I see Bergen opens with Mahler 5 under Gardner, and then this under Mark Elder:

Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem
Gustav Mahler Rückert-Lieder
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj Symfoni nr. 15

But overall yoo many chestnut for me this autumn.

Very nice! That should be an excellent concert. How is Gardner doing in Bergen?

[The new erato]

He did a really outstanding Dream of Gerontius at least. And a very fine Glagolithic Mass. But I'm not enough of a regular to make a general judgement.

[NikF]

Brahms D minor/Beethoven 7th.

We've got tickets for this next week in Edinburgh.

[jlaurson]

Just back from the BSO / M9 / Nelsons at the Musikverein. Expectations met, at last, and exceeded.



Latest on Forbes.com:

Boston Symphony's Gift To Mahler In Vienna

...And that was achieved, and with perfectly hushed tones in the bargain, interrupted only by the
marimba ringtone of a goddamned iPhone, the owner of which was undoubtedly tarred and
feathered and thrown into the Danube Canal immediately following the concert...


http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenslaurson/2016/05/10/boston-symphonys-gift-to-mahler-in-vienna/

[bhodges]

Tomorrow night's recital by Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall is being live-streamed on medici.tv - free.

BRAHMS Ballade in D Minor, Op. 10, No. 1
BRAHMS Ballade in D Major, Op. 10, No. 2
SCHUMANN Kreisleriana, Op. 16
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"

--Bruce

[bhodges]

15 June 2016 - Theater Rigiblick, Zurich
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart    

Johanna Zimmer    Hoher Sopran
Susanne Leitz-Lorey    Lyrischer Sopran
Truike van der Poel    Mezzosopran
Daniel Gloger    Countertenor
Martin Nagy    Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena    Bariton
Andreas Fischer    Bass

Georges Aperghis: Vittriool für sechs Stimmen (2001)
Friedrich Cerha: Zwei Szenen für sieben Stimmen (2010/11)
Mischa Käser: Präludien III für sechs Stimmen (Uraufführung)
Gabriel Dharmoo: Notre meute für fünf Stimmen (2012)
Carola Bauckholt: Nein allein (2000)
Christoph Ogiermann: Parole für vier Stimmen und Elektronik (2012)


yay!

"Yay," indeed. I heard the Neue Vocalsolisten in New York in 2014 - one of the best concerts of the year. Of the two composers on your program, the only two I've heard of are Aperghis and Cerha - wonderful that they explore so many unusual composers.

Tonight I heard the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) in this wonderful - and FREE - program:

Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Pierre Jalbert: String Theory (2016)
Britten: String Quartet No. 2 (arr. ECCO)

The Elgar and Mozart were very impressive, the Jalbert was marvelous (PS, tonal), and the arrangement of the Britten quartet made me think that he had written a follow-up to his Simple Symphony.

--Bruce

[king ubu]

"Yay," indeed. I heard the Neue Vocalsolisten in New York in 2014 - one of the best concerts of the year. Of the two composers on your program, the only two I've heard of are Aperghis and Cerha - wonderful that they explore so many unusual composers.

Yes, that's the major draw for me, other than just seing them live - I haven't started exploring their discography yet (though some Hänssler discs just arrived lately), but heard of their reputation. This is one of the concerts that runs as part of the dada centennial (most of them have no relation to dada at all, they don't even do Satie ... it's all just marketing, Zurich's way too organized and economized to have any real room for something such as dada these days).

[bhodges]

Yes, that's the major draw for me, other than just seing them live - I haven't started exploring their discography yet (though some Hänssler discs just arrived lately), but heard of their reputation. This is one of the concerts that runs as part of the dada centennial (most of them have no relation to dada at all, they don't even do Satie ... it's all just marketing, Zurich's way too organized and economized to have any real room for something such as dada these days).

This recording is the only one I've heard, but it's quite interesting.

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Chuckling at your comments about Zurich (haven't been there yet), which sort of confirm reactions of others.

--Bruce

[Karl Henning]

This Saturday evening, I'm singing with the Cantata Singers for the first time (just off in the bass section, nothing outstanding).

http://www.cantatasingers.org/

Bach motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
Bach Mass in A, BWV 234
Pärt, Adam's Lament

[NikF]

We got tickets for this  -



Haven't heard Bavouzet playing before.

[Florestan]

Programme of the 2017 George Enescu Festival.

http://festivalenescu.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/EN-update-18-februarie_2.pdf

[bhodges]

Looking forward to this one, a program called "Young Americans" and part of the NY Philharmonic Biennial, now underway:

Sunday, June 5
Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra
Christopher Rountree, conductor

Jennifer Higdon: Machine (New York Premiere)
Nico Muhly: So Far So Good (New York Premiere)
Hannah Lash: Chaconnes (World Premiere)
Ashley Fure: Bound to the Bow (World Premiere)

--Bruce

[ritter]

Got a ticket for a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Teatro Real here in Madrid tomorrow evening. Lothar Koenigs conducts, Albert Dohmen is Moses and John Graham-Rogers is Aaron.

Romeo Castelucci's staging, a co-production between the Teatro Real and the Paris Opéra, is receiving rave reviews (even if the appearance onstage of a live bull as the golden calf has created some controversy--both in Paris and here).





Really looking forward to this one....