Future concerts you're excited to have tickets for.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Looks a good 'un, Caliban - I look forward to reading your review

Now to be found on the 'What was your last concert?' thread in 'Talking about Music'

[Dave2002]

Laura van der Heijden

Next weekend there's a concert in Claygate of chamber music, including Rachmaninov's Sonata for Cello and Piano, played by Laura van der Heijden - the BBC young musician competition winner from 2012. It'll be interesting to see how she manages.

Incidentally the Brahms cello sonata is transposed to D, and is really a version of the G major violin sonata.

You can also follow this artist in coming months in Richmond with a similar programme, and in Dorking.

http://www.ocms-music.org.uk/concerts-2013-14/5th-october-2013-laura-van-der-heijden

PS: I forgot to mention - young persons - I think under 25 - can get in to the Claygate concert for free under an arrangement with Cavatina. Check the prices on the web site

[Old Grumpy]

The Impossible Gentlemen

18 October

Now sold out - a very hot tip according to Jazzwise

OG

[Beef Oven!]

Looking forward to this, this evening...............

Royal Festival Hall London..............


Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
Luigi Nono: Canti per 13
Interval
Luigi Nono: Polifonica - monodia - ritmica
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen

Leading exponents of the Darmstadt School from the early 1950s - 1960s, Stockhausen and Nono were influenced at that time by the uncompromising serial techniques of the Second Viennese School. Both, however, were of a generation that strived to reshape their musical world after the horrors of the Second World War.

Whilst Nono's technique was combined with an impassioned political ideology following his alliance with the Italian Communist Party, Stockhausen's Gruppen is a masterpiece of musical imagination inspired by the rise and fall of the Graubünder Alps, visible from his window.

An intensely original soundworld, the piece features three independent orchestras each with their own conductor, who pass swarms of sound between them in a thrilling concert experience
Performers
London Sinfonietta
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

[MrGongGong]

Looking forward to this, this evening...............

Royal Festival Hall London..............


Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
Luigi Nono: Canti per 13
Interval
Luigi Nono: Polifonica - monodia - ritmica
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen

Leading exponents of the Darmstadt School from the early 1950s - 1960s, Stockhausen and Nono were influenced at that time by the uncompromising serial techniques of the Second Viennese School. Both, however, were of a generation that strived to reshape their musical world after the horrors of the Second World War.

Whilst Nono's technique was combined with an impassioned political ideology following his alliance with the Italian Communist Party, Stockhausen's Gruppen is a masterpiece of musical imagination inspired by the rise and fall of the Graubünder Alps, visible from his window.

An intensely original soundworld, the piece features three independent orchestras each with their own conductor, who pass swarms of sound between them in a thrilling concert experience
Performers
London Sinfonietta
Martyn Brabbins conductor
Baldur Brönnimann conductor
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

Most jealous

And BCMG are doing Ligeti this evening as well ...............

[verismissimo]

Alissa Firsova's debut composing, playing, conducting the ECO at Cadogan Hall, 9 October:

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
Alissa Firsova Serenade for Strings (world premiere)
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
David Matthews Symphony No. 4

Alissa Firsova conductor/piano
Michael Petrov cello

Coming up Wednesday!

Following in the footsteps of Britten as composer/conductor/pianist.

[Simon B]

Haitink/LSO this evening - Shostakovich 4 (+ Mozart K271 with Ax in the first half which I doubt I'll escape from today's work 130 miles away in time for).

I rather like the description (can't recall whose) of the end of DSCH4 as a "magnificent non-sequitur", but reapplied to the work as a whole and not intended as a criticism...

Petrenko/RLPO gave a performance early this year of the "leaves you numb and dumb" variety. I suppose a touch "Hollywood" to detractors (I'm not among them). Haitink will presumably be very different. If anyone can bring coherence to it and clarity in some of the denser and more deafening passages (a problem in the Barbican) he's yer man...

[Alison]

Full report later, please, Simon. So sorry I can't be there.

[Nick Armstrong]

10 October, RFH
Brahms: Piano Concerto no 1 & Symphony No 1
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Philharmonia Orchestra

Haitink/LSO this evening - Shostakovich 4 (+ Mozart K271 with Ax in the first half which I doubt I'll escape from today's work 130 miles away in time for).

Quite a night tonight in the capital A fair few Forumites scattered across the two venues, I think

[Alison]

Going for Helene's autograph, Cali ?

[Nick Armstrong]

Going for Helene's autograph, Cali ?

Might try my luck, if the fancy takes me and the opportunity presents itself...

[Anna]

Might try my luck, if the fancy takes me and the opportunity presents itself...

Is that animated emoticon a Stage Door Johnny?

[Alison]

Could equally imagine Helene to be charming or waspish! Go for it old chap !

[Nick Armstrong]

Is that animated emoticon a Stage Door Johnny?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lrQdFmL9U

[Richard Tarleton]

Could equally imagine Helene to be charming or waspish! Go for it old chap !

She keeps wolves.....