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

[(poco) Sforzando]

How is their returns policy?  The main concert halls here are pretty good - you can generally return tickets by phone, and the seats will go back on the booking website almost immediately, for other people to pick up.  It's not completely reliable, but usually you stand a reasonable chance if you wait until the last few days before the concert.  That's how I got my tickets for Ryoji Ikeda - somehow I missed the initial booking period, and by the time I was aware of it there was very little left, so instead of taking seats right over at the side or way at the back, I waited for returns to show up.  For the last week or so I had the booking screen open the whole time, refreshing it every so often - and nothing available, completely sold out, day after day - I was starting to think I'd missed my chance - and then 3 days to go, middle of the morning, whaddaya know:  2 prime seats popped up, and I was on them in a flash.

I know what you mean. The time to start a strategy like that is a few days before the event. It's listed now as "limited availability," and last time I called it was "sold out," but once February rolls around I'll keep an eye out for cancellations or returns.

[ultralinear]

I'd love to get to the Feb 17 Carnegie Hall recital by Cliburn 2022 winner Yunchan Lim, already sold out. Only 19, his CD of Liszt Transcendental Etudes is well - transcendental. If anyone has a ticket to sell . . . .

I was just browsing Wigmore Hall's latest brochure for next summer - and saw that it includes Yunchan Lim performing the very same program of Chopin Etudes.  Booking opens next month so I have added that to the (already quite long) list.   Thanks for the heads-up!  And who knows, maybe they'll stream it.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I was just browsing Wigmore Hall's latest brochure for next summer - and saw that it includes Yunchan Lim performing the very same program of Chopin Etudes.  Booking opens next month so I have added that to the (already quite long) list.   Thanks for the heads-up!  And who knows, maybe they'll stream it.

You can see a lot of his work already on YouTube, the Cliburn competition channel for 2022.

[Karl Henning]

Speaking of Brahms symphonies (on another thread), hearing these two this weekend. (Daniel Barenboim, originally scheduled to conduct, has withdrawn for health reasons.)

Staatskapelle Berlin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Brahms: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 4

-Bruce

Heck of a two-fer in the Hall!

TD: The Lowell Chamber Orchestra will play Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1919 version) and the Ives Third tonight.

[brewski]

Heck of a two-fer in the Hall!

TD: The Lowell Chamber Orchestra will play Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1919 version) and the Ives Third tonight.

It was a terrific concert. Several friends commented in different ways, nothing against the great Philadelphia Orchestra, but the Staatskapelle offered a different kind of sound.

That Schoenberg/Ives concert tonight looks pretty great.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Andris Nelsons will lead a concert performance of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in January.

[brewski]

Andris Nelsons will lead a concert performance of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in January.

Will keep you posted, but there's a chance I may come up for that. (That's actually a candidate for "I'll go to all of the performances," even if a fantasy at the moment.)

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Will keep you posted, but there's a chance I may come up for that. (That's actually a candidate for "I'll go to all of the performances," even if a fantasy at the moment.)

-Bruce

Splendid!

[brewski]

Splendid!

PS, what is your recommended place to sit in the hall, the best value for sight and sound? I don't need the most expensive (i.e., close to the singers), but don't need the least expensive, either.

I have been there, but not in maybe 20 years, though I do recall the sound is excellent in most any seat.

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Heck of a two-fer in the Hall!

TD: The Lowell Chamber Orchestra will play Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (1919 version) and the Ives Third tonight.

[Karl Henning]

S, what is your recommended place to sit in the hall, the best value for sight and sound? I don't need the most expensive (i.e., close to the singers), but don't need the least expensive, either.

I have been there, but not in maybe 20 years, though I do recall the sound is excellent in most any seat.

Your recollection is sound! Plenty of room on the floor that is not on top of the stage. I've also always found the sound from the first balcony to be excellent.

[brewski]

Your recollection is sound! Plenty of room on the floor that is not on top of the stage. I've also always found the sound from the first balcony to be excellent.

Thank you, Karl. (PS, for better or worse, there are still lots of tickets available.)

-Bruce

[Karl Henning]

Thank you, Karl. (PS, for better or worse, there are still lots of tickets available.)

-Bruce

Hope to see you! It's been an age!

[Judith]

Wonderful concert from local orchestra last weekend
Leeds Haydn Players

Performed
Mozart  Divertimento in D major K136
Strauss II  Blue Danube Waltz
Bach  Sleepers Awake
Vaughan Williams  Fantasia on Greensleeves
Hely-Hutchinson  Carol Symphony

Conductors
Harry Lai
Felicity Cliffe

[DavidW]

Okay I love all those works, wish I was there Judith.  Here it is just Christmas pops concerts so I'm checked out.

[brewski]

Very much looking forward to seeing Tiberghien again tomorrow, with a new musical partner:

Marais  Deuxième livre de pièces de viole - Couplets de folies (Les folies d'Espagne)
Kobekin  The Town Romance
Myaskovsky  Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor Op.81
Debussy  Cello Sonata
Shostakovich  Cello Sonata in D minor Op.40

Anastasia Kobekina cello
Cédric Tiberghien piano

Thanks for posting this, which I missed, even as a subscriber to Wigmore Hall's YT channel. I am not familiar with either artist (except by name), and the program looks great.

-Bruce

[ultralinear]

Thanks for posting this, which I missed, even as a subscriber to Wigmore Hall's YT channel. I am not familiar with either artist (except by name), and the program looks great.

-Bruce

In the past I've seen Tiberghien accompanying Alina Ibragimova, who tended to dominate, but even in her shadow you could tell he had a wonderful touch.  Just how much he contributed became even clearer recently when hearing Ibragimova accompanied by Boris Giltburg, who though a fine performer in his own right did not play to her strengths in the same way, and I'm very keen to hear how Tiberghien gets on with his new partner, whom I do not know at all.

In May he's giving a solo recital of works by Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Kurtag - I'm really looking forward to that.  

[brewski]

In the past I've seen Tiberghien accompanying Alina Ibragimova, who tended to dominate, but even in her shadow you could tell he had a wonderful touch.  Just how much he contributed became even clearer recently when hearing Ibragimova accompanied by Boris Giltburg, who though a fine performer in his own right did not play to her strengths in the same way, and I'm very keen to hear how Tiberghien gets on with his new partner, whom I do not know at all.

In May he's giving a solo recital of works by Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti and Kurtag - I'm really looking forward to that.  

Most interesting, thanks. And I just looked at the May program—heavens, that looks superb. I don't recall ever hearing any of those Beethoven variations. At the moment, doesn't look like they are streaming it, but perhaps it's too early to announce.

-Bruce

[ultralinear]

Most interesting, thanks. And I just looked at the May program—heavens, that looks superb. I don't recall ever hearing any of those Beethoven variations. At the moment, doesn't look like they are streaming it, but perhaps it's too early to announce.

-Bruce

I don't know how they decide what to stream - they're not streaming tonight's Giltburg recital (Skryabin/Schumann/Chopin), for example - and it's probably too early at this point to know about Tiberghien in May.

It amazes me that they don't appear to be streaming Quatuor Danel's twin cycles of Weinberg and Shostakovich quartets, in which I imagine there would be quite a lot of interest.  If I see John Gilhooly (the Director) at tomorrow's concert - which I usually do at some point - I might ask him about it.  I wonder if it's an issue with performing rights.

[Christo]

Utrecht, March 19: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste, doing:
* Cyrillus Kreek: I Dreamed; A Harvest Song; Winter Evening; Lullaby; Listen the Story of Light
* Veljo Tormis: St. John's Day Songs, a.o.
Utrecht, Vredenburg, March 19