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

[Cato]

I just discovered that the Cincinnati Symphony has a broadcast concert at 2:00 P.M. E.S.T. today, Sunday, February 9th.

Here is the link to the concert with Violin Concerto #2 of Florence Price, a tone poem by Chausson, and Dvorak's Symphony #9.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtB0MlnsG8

[André]

Jake Heggie's opera Moby Dick will be staged at the Met this year. Hopefully this will find its way to the cineplex. Last year's production of Dead Man Walking was incredibly moving. Can't wait !

[brewski]

I just discovered that the Cincinnati Symphony has a broadcast concert at 2:00 P.M. E.S.T. today, Sunday, February 9th.

Here is the link to the concert with Violin Concerto #2 of Florence Price, a tone poem by Chausson, and Dvorak's Symphony #9.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtB0MlnsG8

Yes! (See a few posts above.) I watched it, fantastic, and may dip in again. (It's available for 30 days.) Goosby did the same Price concerto a few days ago in Detroit, and though it was very good, it was even better here. I predict a great era ahead for Cincinnati.

PS, over 700 people watched the livestream!

[Cato]

I just discovered that the Cincinnati Symphony has a broadcast concert at 2:00 P.M. E.S.T. today, Sunday, February 9th.

Here is the link to the concert with Violin Concerto #2 of Florence Price, a tone poem by Chausson, and Dvorak's Symphony #9.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbtB0MlnsG8

Yes! (See a few posts above.) I watched it, fantastic, and may dip in again. (It's available for 30 days.) Randall Goosby did the same Price concerto a few days ago in Detroit, and though it was very good, it was even better here. I predict a great era ahead for Cincinnati.

PS, over 700 people watched the livestream!

I am happy that you were able to watch!

For me, the Chausson Poeme was the highlight of the concert!

The Dvorak was fairly good: I like how the conductor brought out the inner voices, which are sometimes swallowed in performances.  The Scherzo was especially well-played!

[brewski]

For me, the Chausson Poeme was the highlight of the concert!

The Chausson was just lovely. People commenting in the chat were saying their eyes were watering. Mine certainly were.

Someone suggested that the orchestra is going to get even better with Măcelaru. I mean, they're already an excellent band, but they really seem to like him and vice versa. PS, there was a touching intermission feature that described how he got into Interlochen as a young violinist.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

This upcoming Sunday:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violinist
Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande

A rare opportunity to hear this big Schoenberg piece live. Conductor is new to me.

[ritter]

This upcoming Sunday:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violinist
Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande

A rare opportunity to hear this big Schoenberg piece live. Conductor is new to me.

David Afkham --born in Germany into a family of Iranian descent-- has been the musical director of the Spanish National Orchestra in Madrid since 2014. He is much loved here, and I have always had good experiences when seeing him live (Wagner's Dutchman in concert with Bryn Terfel, Bruckner's Seventh and Strauss' Four Last Songs with Anne Schwanewilms, the Missa Solemnis, Ginastera's Bomarzo fully staged at the Teatro Real,...). On the debit side, perhaps he has concentrated too heavily on the Austro-Germanic core repertoire. He'll be stepping down at the end of next season (to be replaced by Kent Nagano).

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Thanks for filling me in! He's a semi-regular guest here, but I haven't heard him yet.

[Karl Henning]

This upcoming Sunday:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, violinist
Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande

A rare opportunity to hear this big Schoenberg piece live. Conductor is new to me.

Nice!

[brewski]

Tonight, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih in this program:

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 1
N. Boulanger: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Grieg: Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 36

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Tonight, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih in this program:

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 1
N. Boulanger: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Grieg: Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 36

I'd go just for the Martinu! I have the Isserlis recording of it, too.

[Christo]

Coming Sunday: Cantata Secundum Psalmum C in Diem Natalem Nonagesimum - or: Cantata On Psalm 100 on the Ninetieth Birthday of Arie Romein, who will do the bariton solo himself. Composer Jan-Willem van Ree, for: mixed choir, piano, organ, saxophone, flute, oboe or violin, soprano & bariton soloists, in five parts, opening with an instrumental 'Prélude d'après Claude Debussy et orchestré dans le style de Maurice Ravel'. Marvelous. My own 'Nieuwe Cantorij' performing in the Nieuwe Kerk in Ede: https://2cm.es/S6Nc
                                     

[DavidW]

Local orchestra performed Liam Cummins' The Optimist's Fanfare, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and Bizet's Carmet Suites Nos. 1-2. A fantastic evening, and a perfect fit for St. Valentine's Day.

[brewski]

On Friday at 9:00 EST, this interesting livestream from the Minnesota Orchestra, with a conductor new to me, and the orchestra's associate concertmaster:

Minnesota Orchestra
Paolo Bortolameolli, conductor
Susie Park, violin

Miguel Farías: Retratos Australes (2019)
Gabriela Ortiz: Altar de Cuerda, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2021)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3

Info and broadcast here.

[brewski]

On Sunday afternoon at 4:00 pm EST, this livestream from the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, with James Austin Smith, oboe. Register (free) at this link.

PostClassical Ensemble
Angel Gil-Ordóñez, conductor
James Austin Smith, oboe

Albinoni: Concerto for Oboe and Strings op. 9, no. 2 in D minor
Penderecki: Capriccio for Oboe and 11 Strings
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Suzanne Farrin: l'onde (della non vostra) for Solo Oboe
Florence Price: Adoration for Oboe and Strings
Berio: Chemins IV
Kevin Puts: Oboe Concerto No. 1

[lunar22]

following on from last month's concert with a soloist doing double duty, there was a deja vu with the multi-talented Patricia Kopatchinskaya not only doing this first Shostakovich concerto (at breakneck speed it might be added) but also performed her own arrangement of of three arias from Ligeti's "Mysteries of the Macabre", playing, singing and doing a hilarious imitation of a mad old witch -- never seen anything like it.  The concert also included a rare performance of the rather under-rated Hartmann's 3rd symphony.

[brewski]

Tonight, the Curtis New Music Ensemble in a program titled "Bold Experiment." Especially looking forward to Black Angels, which I haven't heard live in years.

Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 2
Crawford Seeger: Suite for wind quintet
Meredith Monk: Folkdance and Ellis Island
Eastman: Buddha
Du Yun: The Ocean Within
Crumb: Black Angels

[brewski]

following on from last month's concert with a soloist doing double duty, there was a deja vu with the multi-talented Patricia Kopatchinskaya not only doing this first Shostakovich concerto (at breakneck speed it might be added) but also performed her own arrangement of of three arias from Ligeti's "Mysteries of the Macabre", playing, singing and doing a hilarious imitation of a mad old witch -- never seen anything like it.  The concert also included a rare performance of the rather under-rated Hartmann's 3rd symphony.

What a fantastic program. I would have been happy with the Shostakovich alone, but the Ligeti sounds fantastic. The two times I've seen it were with Barbara Hannigan, first dressed as a dominatrix (!), and then in a plaid schoolgirl outfit. This sounds like yet another stellar interpretation.

And though I don't know the Hartmann, I don't recall ever seeing it on a concert program. Lucky you!

[lunar22]

the concert started with more Ligeti, in fact -- the "Lontano" which is atmospheric in places although not one of my favourites from that composer, I must say. But all in all, it was a relatively adventurous programme done very well -- Metzmacher was conducting the SWR Symphony orchestra.

[brewski]

the concert started with more Ligeti, in fact -- the "Lontano" which is atmospheric in places although not one of my favourites from that composer, I must say. But all in all, it was a relatively adventurous programme done very well -- Metzmacher was conducting the SWR Symphony orchestra.

Oh happy day, here's the concert! I wondered if they had streamed it, and voila. Will be eager to see it very soon.