Who or which have you not heard live that you'd like to?

[Dave2002]

Prompted by another thread I realised that I've not heard Perlman or Zukerman live. I'd like to while I still can.

I missed the following (I did try for these):

Karajan
Celibidache

I missed (didn't get round to it):

Klemperer
Rostropovich

Besides individual performers there may also be groups - chamber musicians, or orchestras, or choirs. For example, I have heard the Amadeus Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Cleveland Quartet and the Lindsays. I'm not sure about the Emersons. I'm sure there may be others where I lost out.

So, who or what would you still like to hear live? Would you like to hear them play anything in particular?

[Zucchini]

Anne Sofie Mutter who at last we shall hear in September.
Giuliano Carmignola & Andre Marcon's Venice Baroque.

[Petrushka]

I very much regret never having heard Rostropovich as a cellist, though I did a few times as a conductor. I was just too young to have seen Barbirolli but could just have caught Boult in his last concerts had I tried.

[Dave2002]

I very much regret never having heard Rostropovich as a cellist, though I did a few times as a conductor. I was just too young to have seen Barbirolli but could just have caught Boult in his last concerts had I tried.

I managed to "collect" Boult (several times) and Barbirolli (once). We hoped at least to see Rostropovich at the Manchester Cello Festival, but he died around that time. I did see Du Pré though playing Elgar's concerto, and also Sargent, but I missed Beecham whom I thought I would have liked a lot.

Abbado and Muti are two conductors I'd like to hear. I'm sure I've never heard Abbado, Muti may have sneaked in when I wasn't looking . Also Martha Argerich. I may have heard Radu Lupu a long way back, but I'd really like to hear him again. I missed a recital he did which everyone I talked to said was absolutely superb. I heard Barenboim when he was a lot younger, but he's another pianist I'd like to hear again - also Stephen B-K.

Lastly, this time, I would like to hear Nigel Kennedy.

[gurnemanz]

A most annoying "indisposed": We had tickets for Jessye Norman doing Vier Letzte Lieder with Masur and the Gewandhaus (as on the well-known recording). The concert was cancelled because Masur was ill. We thought they might have been able to find someone to conduct it so we could get to hear the great lady.

Re Nigel Kennedy: we saw him in punk mode (complete with safety pins on) at a church during the Bath Festival many years ago. Lots of of banter and glancing at his girlfriend in the audience.

[pastoralguy]

As a fiddle player I would love to have heard the great Mr. Jascha Heifetz. I had lessons with a teacher who had heard him many times and he reported that although the recordings were very good, they did not reproduce the 'incandescent glow' of his sound.

I would liked to have heard David Oistrakh but he was a bit before my time. I did hear Menuhin play the Beethoven concerto in 1978 with Gibson and the SNO. He was getting on a bit but a lead I I'd hear a bit of violin history in th flesh.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferrier.

Preferably with Barbirolli (whom I never heard Live) in Gerontius.
Failing that, with Walter (ditto) in Das Lied von der Erde.

I'd've loved to have attended Mahler's Wagner performances in Vienna, too. Wouldn't've objected to hearing Mahler's Mahler performances, come to that. (Perhaps the premier of the Eighth Symphony, just to hear him say "if any of those idle so-and-so's try to convince you that I ever said that they could change the scoring if they wanted to, let me tell you here and now: I NEVER SAID ANY SUCH THING!")

[Nick Armstrong]

Ferrier.

Preferably with Barbirolli (whom I never heard Live) in Gerontius.
Failing that, with Walter (ditto) in Das Lied von der Erde.

I'd've loved to have attended Mahler's Wagner performances in Vienna, too. Wouldn't've objected to hearing Mahler's Mahler performances, come to that. (Perhaps the premier of the Eighth Symphony, just to hear him say "if any of those idle so-and-so's try to convince you that I ever said that they could change the scoring if they wanted to, let me tell you here and now: I NEVER SAID ANY SUCH THING!")

I've always wanted to be at the second ever performance of Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto - Rachmaninov on keyboard, Gustav Mahler on the podium...

[teamsaint]

What I would like to hear live is Ferney telling us how the world, especially the musical world, and even more especially the world of Mahler should have been, and not how it is in this imperfect dimension.

remember him telling us how all those String quartets and later symphonies would have been?.....

Anyway, any number of people I would love to see, but Cecilia Bartoli is pretty high up the list.

Oh, and Buddy Holly.

[amateur51]

I've always wanted to be at the second ever performance of Rachmaninov's 3rd Piano Concerto - Rachmaninov on keyboard, Gustav Mahler on the podium...

Mind if I join you? - what a cracker

I would also like to have attended one of Percy Grainger's many touring performances of Grieg piano concerto in which at one point he would leap up from his seat while the orchestra was stirring away to a climax to be followed by some impressive solo work on the joanna. PG would run to the edge of the stage, kick the wall, turn round and race back to leap over the piano stool again just in time to start his big chords

Beats getting stale, I guess

[Nick Armstrong]

What I would like to hear live is how the world, especial rfect dimension.

Do you mean you want to hear Bbm playing his tuba?

[teamsaint]

Do you mean you want to hear Bbm playing his tuba?

yes, and I wish I hadn't hit several wrong keys before I posted my post.

[Nick Armstrong]

several wrong keys

Did you catch that lovely extract requested by Maureen Lipman just before 11 this morning?

Joyce Grenfell and Norman Wisdom improvising a sing-song to a popular tune...

Grenfell: "Now... key change!"
Wisdom: "What's that?!"
Grenfell: "Different notes, silly!"

[teamsaint]

indeed.
I would like to see some of our Board professionals playing using the Stanley Unwin Horn method.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht3Vrml0fPg

about 2 minutes in if you want to skip.....

[BBMmk2]

I play keyboards too! (old Skool Rock music!!)

I have a post lunch time gig at the schoolo where I work at 2.30pm on Wednesday 26th June