Composer Anniversaries 2011

[BBMmk2]

Why, instead of blanket Mozart Radio 3 are doing(I mean there is no reason why, after all no anniversary etc), be beter to have someone like Liszt for example?

[Panjandrum]

Why, instead of blanket Mozart Radio 3 are doing(I mean there is no reason why, after all no anniversary etc), be beter to have someone like Liszt for example?

Don't give them ideas: I mean can you imagine ten days of all those transcriptions and interminable organ pieces

[rauschwerk]

No mention, so far, of Victoria. But how is one to properly celebrate outside the church a composer who, however great, set only sacred Latin texts?

[maestro267]

The original version of Stravinsky's 'Petrushka' premiered in June 1911

[Panjandrum]

No mention, so far, of Victoria.

I know she composed some second rate poetry , but do we really want to hear her schoolgirl attempts at composition as well?

[Parry1912]

Well, if we're now doing works instead of composers, how about this lot for 1911?
Nielsen Violin Concerto
Sibelius Symph 4; Rakastava
VW 5 Mystical Songs
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux Op33
Holst Invocation; 2nd Suite for Military Band
Ives Browning Overture; The Gong on the Hook and Ladder; Tone-roads 1
Schoenberg Herzgewachse
Ravel L'heure espagnole; Valse nobles et sentimentales
Wolf-Ferrari (fp) The Jewels of the Madonna
Bridge The Sea
Bartok Bluebeard's Castle; Allegro barbaro; 3 Burlesques
Enesco Symph 2
Stravinsky The King of the Stars
Webern 5 pieces for orchestra
Butterworth 2 English idylls; 6 songs from A Shropshire Lad
Prokofiev Magdalene; Piano conc 1

Not too bad a year then(!)

Can I also throw in Medtner's 'Night Wind' Sonata. Well worth a listen.

[Petrushka]

Are there any notable 'piece' anniversaries in 2011?

Most notable are:

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier ( Dresden, January 26)
Sibelius: Symphony No 4 (Helsinki, April 3)
Elgar: Symphony No 2 (London, May 24)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (Paris, June 13)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Most notable are:

Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier ( Dresden, January 26)
Sibelius: Symphony No 4 (Helsinki, April 3)
Elgar: Symphony No 2 (London, May 24)
Stravinsky: Petrushka (Paris, June 13)

Just as long as we don't have to endure another of those completely unauthentic performances of Elgar 2 without vibrato in next year's Proms

[BBMmk2]

Don't give them ideas: I mean can you imagine ten days of all those transcriptions and interminable organ pieces

Absolutely!! Wondrous!!

[verismissimo]

Seconded, BBM. Especially the transcriptions! :)

[bluestateprommer]

Liszt @ the 2011 Proms (?)

One tidbit (emphasis mine) buried in Nicola Christie's recent article in The Independent on Franz Liszt:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/franz-liszt-a-romantic-remembered-2170152.html

"

There are grand plans underfoot, with a Barenboim/Boulez performance of the two piano concertos at the South Bank Centre in June, a whole host of concerts and recitals programmed for most of the major concert halls around the country, and – this is just a rumour but an exciting one – performances of the complete set of tone poems at the 2011 BBC Proms."

[Ferretfancy]

I do hope they do Hunnenschlacht at the Proms. Ansermet's old recording is one of the funniest pieces in my collection!

[maestro267]

I found out about two more anniversary pieces in 2011. Shostakovich's Twelfth Symphony (The Year 1917) was premiered in October 1961, and his Fourth Symphony was finally given its belated first performance two months later, 25 years after it was composed.

[salymap]

And if anniversaries of different kinds are allowed,it's 50 years in 2011 since the death of Sir Thomas Beecham, so much more that just a conductor. He had a hand in Covent Garden opera house for years, forming orchestras, making arrangements of Handel and other composers, producing and conducting forgotten Victorian works, promoting many unknown 20th century composers.... To people of my age he could be pompous, annoying, overbearing, but always amusing and certainly a one-off. God bless, Tommy.RIP. PS. and he got pretty good results from his players.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

And if anniversaries of different kinds are allowed,it's 50 years in 2011 since the death of Sir Thomas Beecham, so much more that just a conductor.

The man who really made me appreciate Mozart.
And what a Tchaikovsky 4!