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

[brewski]

Seeing this lineup, I wished I still lived in (or near) Brooklyn.

Bang on a Can 2024 Long Play Festival, Brooklyn, May 3-5

https://bangonacan.org/long-play-2024/

Granted it's "new music" / "jazz/improv" (loosely defined), kind of aimed at the BAM / Roulette audiences, but many really attractive events in those vague categories.

A kind of amazing three days. No way I can catch any of them — the coming weekend is already a traffic jam, between the Philadelphia Orchestra doing Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, the Curtis Institute staging The Cunning Little Vixen, and another Wigmore livestream on Sunday with Cédric Tiberghien.

But what a tasty lineup! Ekmeles, the Mivos Quartet, Rebekah Heller, Claire Chase, MATMOS, the Ligeti Quartet, ICE — yikes, so good.

-Bruce

[T. D.]

To name just one...Ligeti's string quartets performed by the eponymous ensemble...  

[brewski]

To name just one...Ligeti's string quartets performed by the eponymous ensemble...  

Right? The parade is kind of incredible. It reminds me somewhat of the early days of the BOAC marathon, when the offerings were a bit more diverse than in some years. (The Oberlin ensemble caused some flashbacks.)

-Bruce

[T. D.]

Tonight, a show devised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja which she has titled Everyday Non-sense:



Mieko Shiomi  Falling Event
Tomas Schmit  Sanitas No.151
Dick Higgins Danger Music Number Seventeen
George Brecht Symphony No.3
Mozart  Ein musikalischer Spaß (A Musical Joke) K.522
Kurtág  Hommage à Tchaikovsky from Játékok, Bk.1
Cage Living Room Music
PatKop from Ghiribizzi (Whims)
      Für Reto ... wo? (For Reto ... where?)
      Sonnerie (Ringing)
      Friede sei mit Euch (Peace be with you)
      Skizzenhaft (Sketchy)
Françaix Mouvement de valse (4th movement) from Octet
Ligeti Fanfare for car horns from Le Grand Macabre
Ligeti Mysteries of the Macabre

Aurora Orchestra
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, director

The reminder email contains the warning: Excellent.

How cool!
Dick Higgins was an outrageous Fluxus artist.
Here's the score of the piece by him:


Although I was hoping for one of his notorious works involving a gun, for instance a symphony from Danger Music No. 12 

[brewski]

Tonight, a show devised by Patricia Kopatchinskaja which she has titled Everyday Non-sense:

(totally fascinating program excised)

Aurora Orchestra
Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin, director

The reminder email contains the warning: Excellent.

How cool!
Dick Higgins was an outrageous Fluxus artist.
Here's the score of the piece by him:


Although I was hoping for one of his notorious works involving a gun, for instance a symphony from Danger Music No. 12 

How did I miss these posts? (Never mind, a busy last few days.)

This all looks very intriguing. That Higgins score would make a cool holiday card. 

-Bruce

[brewski]

Before long we'll be seeing PatKop (as she likes to be known) playing Shostakovich in a more conventional setting, but my abiding memory will be of her working the violin while lying in a bathtub wearing a shower cap, serenaded by a guy banging a yellow plastic duck against the rim.

   

-Bruce

[brewski]

A busy weekend coming up:

Friday: Curtis Opera Theatre presents The Cunning Little Vixen

Saturday:
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska Conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes Piano
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Sunday: Cédric Tiberghien, piano (live from Wigmore Hall)

-Bruce

[ritter]

A busy weekend coming up:

Friday: Curtis Opera Theatre presents The Cunning Little Vixen

Saturday:
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska Conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes Piano
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Sunday: Cédric Tiberghien, piano (live from Wigmore Hall)

-Bruce

The Philadelphia Orchestra were here in New York at the beginning of the week doing the Mozart Requiem under Nathalie Stutzman.

I decided not to subject my partner to classical concerts in this short US vacation, as he's who got us the tickets for Die Meistersinger in Madrid in a couple of weeks. 5 hours of Wagner will be enough classical for him for the next six months at least... Let's  not test his patience. 

[brewski]

Stasevska is Principal Guest Conductor with the BBC SO here, and I generally go to anything she's conducting.  Such energy - like a human firework on the podium.  Which doesn't suit every program, but should be wonderful in the Bartok.  And also the Rachmaninov - I saw her conduct his 3rd Symphony a few weeks after Jurowski had given a typically controlled, meticulous but somewhat disjointed performance of the same piece, and honestly it was like a whole other work, bursting with life.  You should have seen what she did with Mosolov's Iron Foundry.  

Now I'm even more excited! And I love the Mosolov. In my fantasy world, tomorrow night she and the orchestra will pull it out — as an encore! 

#ItCouldHappen

-Bruce

[T. D.]

Earlier today, chamber music series at semi-local library

Hesper String Quartet w. Neilson Chen, piano

2 movements of Louis Vierne string quartet op. 12
Elgar Quintet (piano and SQ) in A minor op. 84
Bartok String Quartet #3
+ encore arrangement of Arirang (Korean trad.)

This is a very good Korean-American quartet formed in 2022 @ Emerson SQ Institute at SUNY Stony Brook. A delight to hear them in a small room. Great concert.

[Bachtoven]

I was looking forward to hearing Vikingur Olafsson play Bach's Goldberg Variations on the U.C. Berkeley campus yesterday afternoon, but with the heavy rain, pro-Palestinian protesters encamped across from the hall, and the awful weekend Bay Area traffic, I decided to stay home and played his wonderful recording of it instead.

[brewski]

Coming up today at 2:00 pm (EDT), another live one from the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, with a fantastic, unusual program conducted by Maxime Pascal, with Baiba Skride as the violin soloist. I have not heard the two Gubaidulina pieces.

Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
Gubaidulina: Dialog: Ich und Du (2018)
Messiaen: L'Ascension
Gubaidulina: The Wrath of God (2019)

 
-Bruce

[pjme]

I'll have to wait a full year, but on june 21st 2025 the Antwerp SO will perform three Belgo/Flemish works!
Good and rare.... I'll try to be there.

Conductor is Karel Deseure.

Worldpremiere of Danses macabres by Erik Desimpelaere  after Brueghel's  The triumph of death

https://www.erikdesimpelaere.com/Partituren%20composities/Danses-macabres/Danses%20Macabres%20-%20preview.pdf

Denise Tolkowsky's (very muscular) pianoconcerto (1958). The work was written for her husband Alex De Vries (1919-1964)

https://www.svm.be/componisten/tolkowsky-denise?language=en


Daniel Sternefeld's second symphony "Brueghel"

https://www.svm.be/componisten/sternefeld-daniel?language=en (several YT videos with Sternefeld's compositions, including the second symphony).

[Brian]

I've posted a couple times around the board that this week I'll be seeing the Dallas Symphony and conductor Daniele Rustioni do the Casella Symphony No. 2. Unfortunately that's no longer true. At some point in the last few months there was a major program change and artist change, and subscribers with tickets were not informed.

The new program:

Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps
Rachmaninov - Paganini Rhapsody
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15

Andris Poga, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano

The pianist and piano work have not changed. The Boulanger was added, which is cool. But the Shostakovich I am worried about. Not just because I was mentally prepared for a big riotous late romantic extravaganza full of Italian tunes, and am getting...uh...morbid Rossini quotes?  But because many of the hallmarks of DSCH 15 seem perfectly calibrated to touch my partner's sore spots. She's a former oboist and keen classical listener, but she hates long slow stretches, percussion only bits, short snippety cells, and quiet endings.

I think we'll just find out together what happens  but man, to have 2/3s of the program changed with no notice is an annoyance.

[Ian]

I've bought tickets for all these upcoming Orchestre Philharmonique Royale de Liège performances:

November 16th
BERLIOZ, Symphonie fantastique


January 10th
RAVEL, Rapsodie espagnole
RAVEL, Concerto en sol
STRAVINSKY, Le sacre du printemps


February 14th
RAVEL, Valses nobles et sentimentales
PROKOFIEV, Concerto pour piano n° 3
MOUSSORGSKI / RAVEL, Tableaux d'une exposition


April 25th
LALO, Symphonie espagnole
SAINT-SAËNS, Symphonie n° 3 « avec orgue »


May 8th
DELIUS, The Walk to the Paradise Garden
YSAŸE, Poème nocturne
DVOŘÁK, Symphonie no 9 « du Nouveau Monde »

[Florestan]

Yesterday night I greatly enjoyed this concert:



I believe there is no need for translation other than Seară = Evening and Tricornul = The Three-Cornered Hat.

Next I'll attend this, on May 31:



(The Stravinsky work is The Firebird)

[brewski]

I think we'll just find out together what happens  but man, to have 2/3s of the program changed with no notice is an annoyance.

Wow. Yesterday I heard from a friend in Missouri who is in Dallas for the same concert, but I didn't know to ask if he had originally made plans because of the previous program. He seemed excited by the Shostakovich (I would be, too) but true: quite a 180 turn from the original menu. Would love to hear your comments, in any case. I have heard that Boulanger live twice in the last year or so, thanks to the advocacy of conductor Thomas Søndergård, and it's worth a spot in the rotation.

-Bruce

[brewski]

Tomorrow night we have an all-Ukrainian program:

Thomas de Hartmann  Selection from La Fleurette Rouge Suite
Anna Korsun  Terricone
Boris Lyatoshinsky  Symphony No.4

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Kirill Karabits  conductor

Wow, speaking of rarities! I know of Lyatoshinsky but haven't heard any of his works, and don't know the other two at all. Hope it's as fascinating as it appears on paper.

-Bruce

[Brian]

Karabits brought Korsun to a half-Ukrainian program in Dallas last fall, along with a work by Victoria Poleva. I missed it, sorry to say - to sell tickets the rest of the program was Richard Strauss. An all-Ukrainian night sounds fascinating! And without the help of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 as a possible ticket seller.

[VonStupp]

Gustav Mahler: Symphony 2
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

I was supposed to see this next weekend, but ended up with a possible concussion, so it may not be possible.

Esa-Pekka Salonen was originally leading this performance, but I think he backed out of engagements recently. Have never seen Järvi live.
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