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

[Brian]

If you had the chance to see the Pittsburgh Symphony and Honeck live in one of these programs, which would you choose?

Marquez - Danzón No. 2
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Hadelich)
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances

Lera Auerbach - world premiere
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rana)
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10

I love Auerbach, Hadelich, and the two big pieces. Haven't seen the Rach live, haven't seen the DSCH live in 15 years.

[brewski]

If you had the chance to see the Pittsburgh Symphony and Honeck live in one of these programs, which would you choose?

Marquez - Danzón No. 2
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Hadelich)
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances

Lera Auerbach - world premiere
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rana)
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10

I love Auerbach, Hadelich, and the two big pieces. Haven't seen the Rach live, haven't seen the DSCH live in 15 years.

Heavens, what a choice. All other things being equal, the second one would get my vote, only because I haven't seen Rana yet, and I've been on a small Shostakovich kick lately. But dang, to miss the great Hadelich in anything, plus the Symphonic Dances...

Maybe time for that coin toss. 

-Bruce

[Brian]

Heavens, what a choice. All other things being equal, the second one would get my vote, only because I haven't seen Rana yet, and I've been on a small Shostakovich kick lately. But dang, to miss the great Hadelich in anything, plus the Symphonic Dances...

Maybe time for that coin toss. 

-Bruce

The coin toss might be whether the Pirates are in town! 

(Rana is great - saw her do a live Beethoven Emperor with a rather sedate tempo but then a thrilling Chopin etude encore.)

[T. D.]

Low-key event in semi-local library Saturday.
Considering a piano 4 hands program with Steven Beck and Yalin Chi. Don't know what they're playing, but it doesn't cost much and should be interesting.

[DavidW]

If you had the chance to see the Pittsburgh Symphony and Honeck live in one of these programs, which would you choose?

Marquez - Danzón No. 2
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto (Hadelich)
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances

Lera Auerbach - world premiere
Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rana)
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10

I love Auerbach, Hadelich, and the two big pieces. Haven't seen the Rach live, haven't seen the DSCH live in 15 years.

The second purely for Shostakovich's 10th.

[brewski]

Low-key event in semi-local library Saturday.
Considering a piano 4 hands program with Steven Beck and Yalin Chi. Don't know what they're playing, but it doesn't cost much and should be interesting.

I don't know Chi, but I've heard Beck many times over the years, mostly with groups like the New York New Music Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and others. If convenient for you, would definitely bite.

-Bruce

[T. D.]

I don't know Chi, but I've heard Beck many times over the years, mostly with groups like the New York New Music Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and others. If convenient for you, would definitely bite.

-Bruce

Thanks! It's about as convenient as a classical event can get for me (40-45 min drive) and more or less en route to another event I want to attend later Saturday, so very promising.
Neither name was familiar to me, but I looked up Beck and his CV is most impressive. 

[brewski]

An unusually dense weekend, but I'm not complaining.

Tonight (livestream):
Minnesota Orchestra
Domingo Hindoyan, conductor
Pacho Flores, trumpet
Roberto Sierra: Fandangos
Sarasate: Gypsy Airs
Arturo Márquez: Concierto de Otoño for Trumpet and Orchestra
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

Tomorrow afternoon (live):
Opera Philadelphia Chorus
Elizabeth Braden, conductor
Meghan Meloy Ness, organ
Verdi:
"Libiamo" (The Brindisi) from La Traviata
"Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie" (The Anvil Chorus) from Il Trovatore
"Va pensiero" from Nabucco
"Patria Oppressa" from Macbeth
Kevin Puts: "Sleep Chorus" from Silent Night
Richard Danielpour: "Epilogue" from Margaret Garner
Bizet: Carmen
"Dans l'air, nous suivons des yeux" (The Cigarette Chorus)
"Habañera"
"Les Voici"
Bernstein: "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide

Saturday night (livestream):
ekmeles (vocal ensemble)
Todd Tarantino: Incipit Lamentatio (2024) World premiere
Jeffrey Gavett: Peccavi fateor (2015)
David Hurd: Tenebrae factae sunt (1989)
Joanna Ward: Christus factus est (2020)
Nirmali Fenn: Pokój w pokoju (2018)
Hannah Kendall: this is but an oration of loss (2022)
Jóhann Jóhannson: Holy Thursday (2002)

Sunday afternoon (livestream):
Aizuri Quartet
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Marcy Rosen, cello
Reena Esmail: Fantasie (Bihag) from Ragamala
Felix Mendelssohn: Capriccio from Quartet, Op. 81
Shulamit Ran: Lyre of Orpheus
R. Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85
Clara Schumann: Die stille Lotosblume from Sechs Lieder, Op. 13, No. 6
Fanny Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major

And then a nap. 

-Bruce

[Brian]

On Feb 9, 2025, Seong-Jin Cho is performing the complete solo piano music of Ravel in one night in San Francisco!

[Brian]

This afternoon: working rehearsals for the world premiere of Anna Clyne's new piano concerto, "Atlas," with Jeremy Denk, the Dallas Symphony, and Fabio Luisi.

Tomorrow night: the actual premiere. I may or may not stay for Luisi's Mahler 5 after the interval. I only barely get along with the symphony to begin with, enjoying the first and fourth movements and a few scattered moments elsewhere. And Fabio is a very poor fit for this music, I fear: self-indulgent, prone to swooning, with exaggerated differences between fast music (very fast) and slow music (veeeeery slow). I once saw him drag the second movement of Beethoven 7 to 12 minutes (!) and it looks like his recorded M5 with the Concertgebouw runs to 77:27, including a 21-minute scherzo.

[ultralinear]

Tonight an all-Rachmaninov program played by Alexander Melnikov:

Variations on a Theme of Corelli Op.42
Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op.22
Etudes-tableaux Op.39

[brewski]

Tonight, the Wister Quartet (current and former members of the Philadelphia Orchestra), with Allen Krantz, guitar:

Boccherini: Guitar Quintet
Francesco da Milano: Ricercare Nos. 2 and 8 for guitar
Krantz: Sonata for Cello and Guitar
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3

-Bruce

[Brian]

This afternoon: working rehearsals for the world premiere of Anna Clyne's new piano concerto, "Atlas," with Jeremy Denk, the Dallas Symphony, and Fabio Luisi.

Tomorrow night: the actual premiere.

For those interested in Anna Clyne's career and her new piece, my employer let me write a column about the premiere and how it fits in her style.

[brewski]

Later this week, Quatuor Ébène:

Haydn: Quartet in G Minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Bartók: Quartet No. 3
Schubert: Quartet in G Major, D. 887

-Bruce

[brewski]

For those interested in Anna Clyne's career and her new piece, my employer let me write a column about the premiere and how it fits in her style.

A) I think it's great that the magazine trusts you with non-food articles.
B) Hope to hear the Clyne piece live at some point, given the theatrics, but will be grateful for the recording.

-Bruce

[Brian]

A) I think it's great that the magazine trusts you with non-food articles.
B) Hope to hear the Clyne piece live at some point, given the theatrics, but will be grateful for the recording.

-Bruce

Thanks! And, pop over to Princeton for the New Jersey Symphony performance in May! https://www.jeremydenk.com/schedule

[Cato]

This evening The Dayton Philharmonic is playing the Nielsen Helios Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto XVI, and Holst's The Planets, a favorite work of Mrs. Cato.

The latter we had heard in a concert some years ago via a marvelous performance by The Cincinnati Symphony.

The reason for two of the works is Monday's eclipse, which will be total (or almost, depending on where you are) here in western Ohio.

I am unsure of the "astronomical" nature of the concerto by Mozart.      Perhaps something will be revealed at the concert!   

[brewski]

I am unsure of the "astronomical" nature of the concerto by Mozart.    Perhaps something will be revealed at the concert! 

Perhaps the Mozart concerto eclipsed the Nielsen?     

(tiptoes out)

-Bruce

[brewski]

On Sunday, 5 May, this fascinating concert from pianist Cédric Tiberghien, livestreamed from Wigmore Hall. The unusual program order was just finalized in the last few days.

Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 1
Beethoven: 6 Variations on a Swiss Song WoO. 64
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 2
Beethoven: 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from Wranitzky's ballet Das Waldmädchen in A WoO. 71
Kurtág: Játékok: Fleurs nous sommes
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 3
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 4
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 5
Beethoven: 8 Variations on the Romance 'Un fièvre brûlante' from Grétry's Richard Cœur-de-lion in C WoO. 72

INTERVAL

Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 6
Beethoven: 13 Variations on the arietta 'Es war einmal ein alter Mann' by Dittersdorf in A WoO. 66
Kurtág: Játékok: Flowers we are (In memoriam Árpád Illés)
Kurtág: Játékok: ...et encore une fois: fleurs nous sommes...
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 7
Beethoven: 10 Variations on the Duet 'La stessa la stessissima' from Salieri's Falstaff in B flat WoO. 73
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 8
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 9
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 10
Ligeti: Musica ricercata No. 11
J.S. Bach: Aria variata BWV989

-Bruce

[Cato]

Perhaps the Mozart concerto eclipsed the Nielsen?     

(tiptoes out)

-Bruce

In fact, from the audience's response, I think it did!