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

[Wanderer]

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For the future: what Notes app are you using?

Thanks for the tip! As I'm out of Athens at the moment, I'll try it from the desktop when I return home in a couple of days. As for the app: I'm using the default iPad Notes app.

[vandermolen]

Copied from the Lyatoshynsky thread:
Just returned from a great concert in London, featuring Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto and Lyatoshynsky's epic 3rd Symphony (original pre-censorship, version). I'm so glad that I made the effort to go to this concert (at the Barbican Hall) - probably the only opportunity I will ever have to hear this work live. It was especially moving as the concert featured a Ukrainian soloist (Anna Fedorova) and a Ukrainian conductor (Kirill Karabits) as well as the BBC SO. Fedorova played a soulful Ukrainian piano work as an encore and it was all very moving. My wife enjoyed the Rachmaninov very much but not the Lyatoshynsky symphony (whispering to me 'Sounds like World War Three' and 'sounds like 'Planet of the Apes') but my brother, my daughter and son-in-law as well as an old friend enjoyed the whole concert. It was very special and if you have access to BBC Radio 3 it is going to be broadcast on Tuesday at 7.30pm (GMT) and will then be available on BBC Sounds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gyn0

[Florestan]

My wife enjoyed the Rachmaninov very much but not the Lyatoshynsky symphony (whispering to me 'Sounds like World War Three' and 'sounds like 'Planet of the Apes')

I wonder what she hated more, the former or the latter. 

[vandermolen]

I wonder what she hated more, the former or the latter. 

[brewski]

On Sunday, Jan. 22, I'll be watching the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra livestream, but look what showed up at 3:00 pm ET on the same day: a recital at Yale by Augustin Hadelich. Free, no registration required.

J.S. Bach: Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Blue/s Forms (1979)
Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Obsession"
Bach: Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004

https://music-tickets.yale.edu/23057/23058?fbclid=IwAR2RwqayLoPmnCGBXKcxG94N5ZGMuZ3rBrfB62DF6OypdCKXJq28X75OkOc

-Bruce

[brewski]

General booking opened today at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for the UK premiere in April of Kaija Saariaho's new opera Innocence conducted by Susanna Mälkki:



Despite letting my membership lapse, amazingly I was able to book my favourite seats, which have the advantages of being (a) relatively cheap, (b) with excellent sightlines even for someone short, and (c) convenient for the exit.**

Plus: since I had been prepared to go up at least one price band if necessary, now I have a wodge of "spare" cash to throw at a CD order.

** It was from these seats, during the interval in a monumentally dull performance of Berg's Lulu, that I set what I believe still to be the record for the Amphitheatre Bar Dash, timed from the first moment the curtain starts to fall and ending when standing at the bar with a triple vodka in hand.

OK, I'm terribly envious—and that set, alone, looks spectacular. (PS, sorry about the dull Lulu, but would have loved to join you for your bar dash.)

Tonight, the JACK Quartet in this fantastic program. For those interested, the concert will be livestreamed, free:

https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/jack-quartet-curenton/

Burhans: Contritus
Lachenmann: Quartet No. 2, Reigen seliger Geister
Lee, III: Chôro sem tristeza
Shirazi: Vestiges
Zorn: Nachträglichkeit

-Bruce

[Brian]

Hey Bruce, check out the Goosby/Tchaikovsky program here in Dallas this weekend!

Dvorak | The Wood Dove
Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto
Lutoslawski | Concerto for Orchestra

Randall Goosby
Karina Canellakis
Dallas Symphony

[brewski]

Hey Bruce, check out the Goosby/Tchaikovsky program here in Dallas this weekend!

Dvorak | The Wood Dove
Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto
Lutoslawski | Concerto for Orchestra

Randall Goosby
Karina Canellakis
Dallas Symphony

OK, that is fantastic, mostly because you rarely see the first and last pieces programmed (at least, in the U.S.). Goosby seems to be making the Tchaikovsky his calling card for early 2023! I'm not the biggest fan of the piece (it's fine), but at least on Sunday, he was smiling while dealing with its onslaughts.

Hope you're going, and please report if you do.

-Bruce

[Brian]

OK, that is fantastic, mostly because you rarely see the first and last pieces programmed (at least, in the U.S.). Goosby seems to be making the Tchaikovsky his calling card for early 2023! I'm not the biggest fan of the piece (it's fine), but at least on Sunday, he was smiling while dealing with its onslaughts.

Hope you're going, and please report if you do.

-Bruce

Yup! Mainly for the other two works, but my parents also had glowing reviews of Goosby when they saw him two weeks ago in San Antonio. This is my second time seeing the Lutoslawski live and I'll keep going everytime anyone programs it 

[brewski]

Yup! Mainly for the other two works, but my parents also had glowing reviews of Goosby when they saw him two weeks ago in San Antonio. This is my second time seeing the Lutoslawski live and I'll keep going everytime anyone programs it 

Yesss. Honestly, I think Goosby is on his way to superstardom, if he keeps up this pace. (Hope he does an encore, too.)

And I've only seen the Lutoslawski live once, that I can recall. It is worth chasing down whenever it appears.

-Bruce

[Wanderer]

A trilogy of operas next week in Paris:


Il Trovatore (2 February, Opéra Bastille)

Il Conte di Luna: Étienne Dupuis
Leonora: Anna Pirozzi
Azucena: Judit Kutasi
Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov
Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini
Ines: Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur
Ruiz: Samy Camps
Un vecchio Zingaro: Shin Jae Kim
Un Messo: Chae Hoon Baek
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Alex Ollé



Carmen (3 February, Opéra Bastille)

Don José: Joseph Calleja
Escamillo: Étienne Dupuis
Le Dancaïre: Marc Labonnette
Le Remendado: Loïc Félix
Zuniga: Guilhem Worms
Morales: Tomasz Kumiega
Carmen: Clémentine Margaine
Micaela: Nicole Car
Frasquita: Andrea Cueva Molnar
Mercedes: Adèle Charvet
Lillas Pastia: Karim Belkhadra
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Fabien Gabel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Calixto Bieito



Tristan und Isolde (4 February, Opéra Bastille)

Isolde: Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tristan: Michael Weinius
Brangäne: Okka von der Damerau
Kurwenal: Ryan Speedo Green
König Marke: Eric Owens
Melot: Neal Cooper
Ein Hirt, ein Seeman: Maciej Kwaśnikowski
Ein Steuermann: Tomasz Kumiega
Corps terrestre: Jeff Mills, Lisa Rhoden
Corps célestes: John Hay, Sarah Steben
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Peter Sellars

[Florestan]

A trilogy of operas next week in Paris:


Il Trovatore (2 February, Opéra Bastille)

Il Conte di Luna: Étienne Dupuis
Leonora: Anna Pirozzi
Azucena: Judit Kutasi
Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov
Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini
Ines: Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur
Ruiz: Samy Camps
Un vecchio Zingaro: Shin Jae Kim
Un Messo: Chae Hoon Baek
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Alex Ollé



Carmen (3 February, Opéra Bastille)

Don José: Joseph Calleja
Escamillo: Étienne Dupuis
Le Dancaïre: Marc Labonnette
Le Remendado: Loïc Félix
Zuniga: Guilhem Worms
Morales: Tomasz Kumiega
Carmen: Clémentine Margaine
Micaela: Nicole Car
Frasquita: Andrea Cueva Molnar
Mercedes: Adèle Charvet
Lillas Pastia: Karim Belkhadra
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Fabien Gabel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Calixto Bieito



Tristan und Isolde (4 February, Opéra Bastille)

Isolde: Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tristan: Michael Weinius
Brangäne: Okka von der Damerau
Kurwenal: Ryan Speedo Green
König Marke: Eric Owens
Melot: Neal Cooper
Ein Hirt, ein Seeman: Maciej Kwaśnikowski
Ein Steuermann: Tomasz Kumiega
Corps terrestre: Jeff Mills, Lisa Rhoden
Corps célestes: John Hay, Sarah Steben
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Peter Sellars

Quite the week, Tasos! Superb program. Enjoy!

[Judith]

Last week, we went to see local orchestra
Sinfonia of Leeds performing
Martinu  Overture for Orchestra
Schubert  Symphony No 5
Sibelius  En Saga
Kapralova  Military Sinfonietta

Conductors
David Greed
Anthony Kraus

It was a 50th Anniversary Concert.  Schubert Symphony no 5 was performed the very first concert.

[Wanderer]

Quite the week, Tasos! Superb program. Enjoy!

Thanks, Andrei, looking forward to them all. 

[brewski]

Quite the week, Tasos! Superb program. Enjoy!

Yes, that is quite a heady three days! And perhaps you planned it for this reason, but that's not a bad "program order" for those 3 operas. (I would definitely prefer seeing Tristan last.)

-Bruce

[brewski]

Last week, we went to see local orchestra
Sinfonia of Leeds performing
Martinu  Overture for Orchestra
Schubert  Symphony No 5
Sibelius  En Saga
Kapralova  Military Sinfonietta

Conductors
David Greed
Anthony Kraus

It was a 50th Anniversary Concert.  Schubert Symphony no 5 was performed the very first concert.

What a nice program. I have never heard the Martinu (nor seen it on any concert offering), and En Saga doesn't show up that often, either—at least, in the U.S.

-Bruce

[brewski]

Tonight, an all-Tchaikovsky livestream from the Cincinnati Pops, with excerpts from Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, and the 1812 Overture. I'm tuning in mostly to see Damon Gupton, a conductor I know from Facebook, to see what he's all about.

-Bruce

[ritter]

A trilogy of operas next week in Paris:


Il Trovatore (2 February, Opéra Bastille)

Il Conte di Luna: Étienne Dupuis
Leonora: Anna Pirozzi
Azucena: Judit Kutasi
Manrico: Yusif Eyvazov
Ferrando: Roberto Tagliavini
Ines: Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur
Ruiz: Samy Camps
Un vecchio Zingaro: Shin Jae Kim
Un Messo: Chae Hoon Baek
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Alex Ollé



Carmen (3 February, Opéra Bastille)

Don José: Joseph Calleja
Escamillo: Étienne Dupuis
Le Dancaïre: Marc Labonnette
Le Remendado: Loïc Félix
Zuniga: Guilhem Worms
Morales: Tomasz Kumiega
Carmen: Clémentine Margaine
Micaela: Nicole Car
Frasquita: Andrea Cueva Molnar
Mercedes: Adèle Charvet
Lillas Pastia: Karim Belkhadra
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Fabien Gabel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Calixto Bieito



Tristan und Isolde (4 February, Opéra Bastille)

Isolde: Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tristan: Michael Weinius
Brangäne: Okka von der Damerau
Kurwenal: Ryan Speedo Green
König Marke: Eric Owens
Melot: Neal Cooper
Ein Hirt, ein Seeman: Maciej Kwaśnikowski
Ein Steuermann: Tomasz Kumiega
Corps terrestre: Jeff Mills, Lisa Rhoden
Corps célestes: John Hay, Sarah Steben
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Chorus Master: Alessandro Di Stefano
Director: Peter Sellars

Quite an operatic week, Tassos! Enjoy! 

I saw the Peter Sellars / Bill Viola production of Tristan here in Madrid some seasons ago, and it was certainly a great experience, and a very valid approach to the work.

[brewski]

Coming up soon, two more livestreams (free) from the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Both are enticing, but I'm especially looking forward to the Casals group in Ligeti's No. 1.

Feb. 12
Aizuri Quartet
https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/aizuri-quartet/

Feb. 16
Cuarteto Casals
https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/cuarteto-casals/

-Bruce

[Florestan]

I saw the Peter Sellars / Bill Viola production of Tristan here in Madrid some seasons ago, and it was certainly a great experience, and a very valid approach to the work.

Then again, I expect Calixto Bieito's Carmen to be a horror show.