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

[Karl Henning]

Boy Beamish

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[NikF]

Beamish is a name?
And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
  Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
  He chortled in his joy.

Goes to Google and Wikipedia....a town and museum named Beamish... several people named Beamish...but the only composer is Sally Beamish, and she seems to have no piano concertos to her credit.  Could you elucidate?

Sorry, I think you've got as much info as there is available. And her website doesn't appear to have been updated in almost a year.
The listings on the RSNO website aren't often much help in these matters. All I can find to add is that the work is 'Piano Concerto No3 The Makers (RSNO Commission)'.
I'll bookmark this thread and when I'm next at a concert featuring the RSNO I'll ask questions. Failing that, I'll definitely grab a printed programme and maybe we can find more information then.

fake edit: I've just found mention of a piano concerto here http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/members/?member_id=1920
And the website of her publisher (Edition Peters) lists a piano concerto from 2015.

[bhodges]

Looking forward to this concert broadcast (on the Internet) on 14 September:

Orchestra of the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY 
Susanna Mälkki  conductor
Victor Hanna  percussion

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Accompaniment to a Film Scene, Op. 34

Olga Neuwirth (*1968)
Trurliade – Zone Zero for percussion and orchestra
world premiere | commissioned by Roche Commissions

Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6

Helmut Lachenmann (*1935)
Schreiben for Orchestra

https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/orchestra-of-the-lucerne-festival-academy-susanna-malkki-victor-hanna/53

--Bruce

[kishnevi]

Sorry, I think you've got as much info as there is available. And her website doesn't appear to have been updated in almost a year.
The listings on the RSNO website aren't often much help in these matters. All I can find to add is that the work is 'Piano Concerto No3 The Makers (RSNO Commission)'.
I'll bookmark this thread and when I'm next at a concert featuring the RSNO I'll ask questions. Failing that, I'll definitely grab a printed programme and maybe we can find more information then.

fake edit: I've just found mention of a piano concerto here http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/members/?member_id=1920
And the website of her publisher (Edition Peters) lists a piano concerto from 2015.

That explains things.  The 2015 concerto was for Brautigam and premiered this year.  The 2016 concerto is for Biss, and the actual premiere will be (was?) in Minnesota.

[TheGSMoeller]

Beamish Piano Concerto No3 The Makers
Beethoven Piano Concerto No1
Brahms Symphony No4

Peter Oundjian/RSNO/Jonathan Biss

Got the tickets today, although I'm not sure who I'm going with.

Nik, I just saw Oundjian conduct the Atlanta S.O. through symphonie fantastique, this was my first experience with the conductor and I was impressed. He seemed to have a good feel for the Romantic era.
Hope you enjoy!

[bhodges]

Nik, I just saw Oundjian conduct the Atlanta S.O. through symphonie fantastique, this was my first experience with the conductor and I was impressed. He seemed to have a good feel for the Romantic era.
Hope you enjoy!

Another vote for Oundjian, whom I heard with the Toronto SO a few years back in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins (with Ute Lemper) and a fantastic Shostakovich 11th Symphony.

--Bruce

[TheGSMoeller]

Another vote for Oundjian, whom I heard with the Toronto SO a few years back in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins (with Ute Lemper) and a fantastic Shostakovich 11th Symphony.

--Bruce

Wow, Bruce! That's some killer programming. And with Lemper, I would spend good money for that one.

[Christo]

I mean, my opinion of the 10th was pretty low

Really? It hadn't occurred to me that your description of it in rather objective terms like "dubious parodies", "pastiche, "a shocking dose of treacly sentimentality", "inept orchestration", "prankster",  "wincingly cloying harmonic progressions",  "made me think of Tom Cruise scaling a skyscraper to escape enemy agents", "merciless assault on Philip Glass's orchestration skills", "annoying pinched trumpet solos", "woodwinds that jag out at odd angles", "brass instruments stepping on each other's metaphorical feet", "too much percussion", "just the same junk over and over again" &c. might be slightly critical in tone. 

For those who like to see the full verdict: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2015/Aug/Glass_sy10_OMM0101.htm

[bhodges]

As if there weren't enough live music to hear online, selected events from the Banff International String Quartet Competition are being live-streamed. This year's group is quite impressive.

Watch here (on right now, the Argus Quartet from the USA, in Haydn and Bartok):

https://www.banffcentre.ca/bisqc-watch-and-listen

--Bruce

[bhodges]

Next week, dipping into the Resonant Bodies Festival, three nights of experimental vocal music, with some of the best musicians around. (Last year's opening night featured Tony Arnold, Lucy Shelton, and Dawn Upshaw.)

In the past couple of years, the founder/curator Lucy Dhegrae has come up with some fascinating evenings, using a very simple structure: for each concert, she invites 3 vocalists to do a 45-minute set of whatever they choose.

http://www.resonantbodiesfestival.org/

--Bruce

[NikF]

Nik, I just saw Oundjian conduct the Atlanta S.O. through symphonie fantastique, this was my first experience with the conductor and I was impressed. He seemed to have a good feel for the Romantic era.
Hope you enjoy!

That's good to know. And it'll be my first time hearing the Brahms 4 performed live.
Thanks!

[bhodges]

Later this week, Ónix Ensamble from Mexico City, in works by contemporary Latin American composers. Program looks fascinating:

https://nationalsawdust.org/event/americas-society-and-the-mexican-cultural-institute-ny-present-onix-ensamble-furia-y-silencio/

--Bruce

[SimonNZ]

Any New Yorkers here going to this all-Saariaho concert next month?:

http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/circle_map

Lumière et Pesanteur (2009, NY Premiere)
D'om le Vrai Sens (2010, NY Premiere)
Lonh (1996)
Circle Map (2012, NY Premiere)

Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

[bhodges]

Any New Yorkers here going to this all-Saariaho concert next month?:

http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/circle_map

Lumière et Pesanteur (2009, NY Premiere)
D'om le Vrai Sens (2010, NY Premiere)
Lonh (1996)
Circle Map (2012, NY Premiere)

Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

Yes, planning to go -- haven't worked out the date yet, since the fall is pretty dense. But I like her music a lot, and Salonen is doing excellent work lately.

--Bruce

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

A school concert I didn't post about here which I attended last night absolutely blew my socks off at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall of the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Copland: Appalachian Spring suite for orchestra (orchestra conducted by Warwick Stengårds)
Rheinberger: Abendlied
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Barber: Sure on this Shining Night
Gershwin: Clap Yo' Hands (choir and associate artists conducted by Dermot Tutty)

Interval

Monteverdi: selections from L'Orfeo (chamber choir, soloists and ensemble on period instruments with guest artists Ludovico's Band)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (one of the year 12 pianists with orchestra conducted by Stengårds again)

This was a concert which my old school put on, but it took a different format from the usual 3 or 4 concert works including a rather more substantial work for choir and orchestra by Mozart or Haydn or something like that, probably so as not to have so much emphasis on large scale orchestral works.

I can't say what was the best item in the concert, but the final piece received a standing ovation. The soloist, Sung Won Choi, captured the lighthearted quirkiness better than most recordings I've heard just as well as the more subdued sections.

Appalachian Spring has such an exposed opening, and even though the strings were made up mostly of the younger, less experienced students, there were nothing audibly problematic in intonation or timing, and as soon as the piece picked up pace the rhythmic accuracy, synchronicity, the oneness of the whole orchestra in interpretation, the balance and the sound were easily on par or better than other performances I've seen and heard. The brass section in particular was spectacular, as most of the students are now in the older years.

The four short choral works were an interesting venture and absolutely lovely to hear. I had no idea the choir would actually sound as good as they did due to most of the students not having had vocal training. A general oneness in the performance again, as well as some of the most beautiful choral decrescendos and pianissimos I've ever heard. The Gershwin song, from 'Oh Kay' was a fun piece and was accompanied by one of the Jazz ensembles at the school.

The escerpts from L'Orfeo was totally different but didn't sound too out of place next to the final piece on the program. The chamber choir was made up mostly of the vocal students in the school (two of them playing on tambourines in some of the songs), and were positioned in a semicircle around the period instrument ensemble of students and guest artists. The solo singers had obviously taken training in historically informed performance practice and the singing style just seemed second nature to all of them.

I used to go to this school, and this was the first time I have been able to see a complete concert from an audience perspective. I was expecting it to be quite good because they have a great music program there, but it really went above and beyond even my own high expectations. I certainly must go to more of these!

[Obradovic]

At the Athens Megaron

Tonight

P.I. Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile for cello and orchestra
R. Schumann: Concert Piece for 4 horns and orchestra op.86
F. Schubert: Symphony No.9 D944

and tomorrow

R. Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op.28
Vier letzte Lieder
Ein Heldenleben op.40

Kristin Lewis, soprano
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta

An all-Richard Strauss program right from Israel, bon dieu!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Can't be there tonight but I'm watching a live stream of some of my friends playing the music of Gerard Grisey http://mcm.unimelb.edu.au/community-engagement/concerts

[SimonNZ]

The streaming option doesn't seem to appear for me. Which Grisey are they playing?

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

The streaming option doesn't seem to appear for me. Which Grisey are they playing?

Hmm that's a bit of a shame. Thatfabalien in NZ seems to be able to view it so I don't think viewing is limited only to Australia..........

Details here: http://www.forestcollective.com.au/threshold

Concert starts in a couple of minutes!

[SimonNZ]

Hmm that's a bit of a shame. Thatfabalien in NZ seems to be able to view it so I don't think viewing is limited only to Australia..........

Details here: http://www.forestcollective.com.au/threshold

Concert starts in a couple of minutes!

Oh my again!. An all-Grisey program! Including Quatre Chants! And just today I played two live concerts of it on YT from 2015 and next month GioCar says he will be seeing it!