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

[brewski]

Friday night at 9:00 p.m. (EDT), Thomas Søndergård and the Minnesota Orchestra will be livestreaming the concert below, with pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton in the Poulenc.

Ethel Smyth: On the Cliffs of Cornwall
Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

Livestream link here.

-Bruce

[ritter]

Just got tickets and my son and me for tomorrow's concert of the Spanish National Orchestra and Chorus at the National Music Auditorium here in Madrid. Sarah Wegener (sop.), Wiebke Lehmkuhl (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (ten) and Ashley Riches (bass), all under the baton of the orchestra's music director David Afkham, will perform Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.

The performers will travel to Granada to repeat the concert in that city's festival on June 26, in the magnificent setting of Charles V's renaissance palace in the Alhambra complex.



I'm not the greatest fan of the Solemnis, but want to listen to the work live in concert to see whether my appreciation of it improves.

[brewski]

Tonight, the opening concert of the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine — highly recommended for those who love chamber music. Many of the events, including some master classes, will be livestreamed here.

Ying Quartet
Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 50, No. 1, "Prussian"
Bartók: String Quartet No. 2 , Sz. 67
Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81

-Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

I'm very happy I've bought a ticket for Das Rheingold at Teatro alla Scala on November 3, with Christian Thielemann as conductor as well as Michael Volle as Wotan and Johannes Martin Kränze as Alberich. I have great expectations for the performance, but I hope the staging won't be too modern.

[brewski]

Tonight's livestream from the Bowdoin Festival in Brunswick, Maine. Watch free here, or on their YouTube channel below.

Beethoven: String Trio in D Major, Op. 9, No. 2
Renée Jolles, violin • Maiya Papach, viola • Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

Viet Cuong: Electric Aroma (2017)
Linda Chesis, flute • Fellow, clarinet • Luke Rinderknecht, percussion • Fellow, piano

Amy Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 67
Ayano Ninomiya, Janet Ying, violin • Rebecca Albers, viola • David Ying, cello • Tao Lin, piano

-Bruce

[brewski]

Today, thanks to the Bowdoin Festival, focus on the Pacifica Quartet, starting with a master class in about an hour, followed by a concert tonight with Beethoven, Op. 132 and Shostakovich No. 2.

-Bruce

[brewski]

Today, thanks to the Bowdoin Festival, focus on the Pacifica Quartet, starting with a master class in about an hour, followed by a concert tonight with Beethoven, Op. 132 and Shostakovich No. 2.

-Bruce

A fabulous evening by the Pacifica Quartet tonight, on fire in both works. As an encore, the first of Louis Gruenberg's Four Diversions (1930) for string quartet, new to me and according to the ensemble, "one of our new favorites."

Link above should be archived for awhile, and if the program suits, don't hesitate.

-Bruce

[brewski]

Once again the Aspen Festival is livestreaming about a dozen events this year (several have already passed). As samples, on Friday, July 5, pianist Inon Barnatan will be soloist in Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with two Haydn symphonies on either side. And for the big finale on Aug. 18, Christine Goerke and Greer Grimsley will sing Act III of Die Walküre.

Complete list here.

-Bruce

[Mandryka]

This afternoon as part of the Southbank's Sound Within Sound presentation, two short-ish programs of music by Galina Ustvolskaya :

Piano Sonata No.4 in 4 parts
Piano Sonata No.5 in 10 movements
Piano Sonata No.6 in 1 part

Siwan Rhys piano
 

Not sure about 5 but enjoyed what she did in 4 and wondered what she must be on to find the reserve power for 6.

I'm going to the Radigue tomorrow.

[brewski]

This afternoon as part of the Southbank's Sound Within Sound presentation, two short-ish programs of music by Galina Ustvolskaya :

Piano Sonata No.4 in 4 parts
Piano Sonata No.5 in 10 movements
Piano Sonata No.6 in 1 part

Siwan Rhys piano

Symphony No.3 (Jesus Messiah, Save Us!) for voice & small orchestra
Symphony No.2 (True and Eternal Bliss!) for voice & small orchestra

London Sinfonietta
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Sergej Merkusjev reciter

Not sure about 5 but enjoyed what she did in 4 and wondered what she must be on to find the reserve power for 6.

I'm going to the Radigue tomorrow.

Envy, envy, envy.

-Bruce

[Mandryka]

Ian Pace - Busoni and Finnissy -- Mon 15

Ferruccio Busoni, An die Jugend, BV 254 (1909). 1. Preludietto, Fughetta ed Esercizio; 3. Giga, Bolero e Variazione (Studie nach Mozart)
Ferruccio Busoni, Fantasia nach Johann Sebastian Bach, BV 253 (1909)
Ferruccio Busoni, Indianisches Tagebuch, Book I, BV 267 (1915)
Ferruccio Busoni, Toccata: Preludio, Fantasia, Ciaccona, BV 287 (1920
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Franz Liszt – Ferruccio Busoni, Réminiscences de Don Juan (1787 (Mozart), 1841 (Liszt), 1917 (Busoni))
Michael Finnissy, Kapitalistisch Realisme (met Sizilianische Männerakte en Bachsche Nachdichtungen) (1999-2000)

https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2024/july/ian-pace-busoni

[brewski]

On Sunday, Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra at the Proms, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, marking Elder's last season as music director after 25 years.

Sir James MacMillan: Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia
Mahler: Symphony No. 5

-Bruce

[brewski]

Tomorrow at 12:30 pm (EDT), the opening concert of the Verbier Festival, live on Medici.tv, conducted by Simon Rattle. Appears to be free with registration.

Information here.

Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano
Oberwalliser Vokalensemble
Chœur Cantiamo de l'École de chant du Haut-Valais
Verbier Festival Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle

-Bruce

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

A pair of concerts at Ravinia this weekend. First, on Saturday:

Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor

My favorite Mahler symphony, which I've heard 5 or 6 times already, though the last time was about 12 years ago.

On Sunday, a free chamber music concert:

Schubert: Rondo brillant in B minor (for violin and piano), D. 895
Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73
Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 ("Métamorphoses nocturnes")
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929

[brewski]

Today, live from the Verbier Festival (12:30 pm, EDT) on Medici.tv:

Yunchan Lim, piano
Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor
Verbier Festival Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

-Bruce

[brewski]

Just found out about yet another series new to me at the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia. They are streaming most of the festival (info here), but these two from the Parker Quartet — they're excellent — look particularly tasty.

Bach: The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 (excerpts)
Adès: The Four Quarters for String Quartet, Op. 28
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4

Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 1 in A major                                                           
Vijay Iyer: Dig the Say                                                                   
Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127

-Bruce

[vandermolen]

(Repeated from the Vaughan Williams thread):
I attended a very good Prom Concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London last night (Prom 33) with my wife, brother, daughter and son-in-law. First we had a nice Polish meal in South Kensington near my childhood and early-adult home. The concert featured:
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
Holst: Hammersmith (orchestral version)
Stanford: 'Songs of Faith' 'The Fairy Lough'
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (1920 Version)
BBC SO, Martyn Brabbins.
This was basically a London-themed concert.
In the programme notes Martyn Brabbins wrote:
'I'm convinced that the extended Epilogue in the 1920 version provides a stronger conclusion to this beautifully atmospheric symphony, as the extra music [which the composer later cut out] balances the opening minutes of the first movement, thereby enhancing the symphonic structure of this most poetic and descriptive of Vaughan Williams's symphonies'
I couldn't agree more and was delighted to be able to hear this live. I was very moved (as was my brother) by the extended ending of the symphony. I enjoyed all the other works as well. I think that the concert is being broadcast again at 2.00PM UK time today on BBC Radio 3 and it would be well worth catching up with it on the BBC iPlayer.

[vandermolen]

Where was that?  We used to have a good Polish restaurant near here but they all went back home after after you-know-what and I am missing my bigos.



Nice concert BTW.

https://daquise.co.uk/

My brother was at school with the owner's son in the 1950s! We've been going there for decades. I usually have the meatballs and a pint of Polish beer 
It has an interesting history if you read the introductory page (it was established in 1947)

[Mandryka]

https://daquise.co.uk/

My brother was at school with the owner's son in the 1950s! We've been going there for decades. I usually have the meatballs and a pint of Polish beer 
It has an interesting history if you read the introductory page (it was established in 1947)

I practically lived there at one time, 1990s. It used to owned by Poles -- I remember the aggressive lady behind the till, and fabulous borscht and strudel and potato pancakes with sour cream and various varieties of vodka. Then about 15 years ago or maybe more, it was bought out by a chain, Hungarians, or at least I think they're Hungarians. One thing I really don't like about it now is that it's cold in Winter -- they just don't have good heating.

There's another good Polish restaurant near Imperial, in the Polish Club.

[prémont]

I practically lived there at one time, 1990s. It used to owned by Poles -- I remember the aggressive lady behind the till, and fabulous borscht and strudel and potato pancakes with sour cream and various varieties of vodka. Then about 15 years ago or maybe more, it was bought out by a chain, Hungarians, or at least I think they're Hungarians. One thing I really don't like about it now is that it's cold in Winter -- they just don't have good heating.

Thus, all the polish has vanished?