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

[kernelbogey]

Bruckner 7 and Mozart Clarinet Concerto.

BSO, Anvil Basingstoke, this Friday.

Helping the working week swing by........

Hey TS, how was this? I would have liked to go but had a previous commitment and went instead to the LvB & Brahms concert at the Portsmouth Guildhall the previous Friday.

I'm curious about Karabits's Bruckner....

[teamsaint]

Hey TS, how was this? I would have liked to go but had a previous commitment and went instead to the LvB & Brahms concert at the Portsmouth Guildhall the previous Friday.

I'm curious about Karabits's Bruckner....

Hi KB.
I put a brief review up on the " What was your last concert thread".

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?1119-What-was-your-last-concert

I'm certainly no Bruckner expert, but the performance seemed to me to be fairly solid, (in a good way), and gave me what I expected or hoped for.
Karabits put a lot into it, certainly keep things moving and dynamic.

How was the pompey concert ?

Next up for me is the Tchaik 6/ Prokofiev random violin Concerto concert at the Anvil in early november.

Edit; Re your #300 KB, I have booked for carmen, being an opera numpty. Might pop down for one of the others as well if there are cheapies left though.
All very tempting !!

[aeolium]

Edit; Re your #300 KB, I have booked for carmen, being an opera numpty. Might pop down for one of the others as well if there are cheapies left though.
All very tempting !!

Try and get to William Tell, ts (unless you really don't like Rossini). I think it's a good production and it has some great music, particularly for the WNO chorus who are the nonpareil of choruses in this country imv.

[teamsaint]

Try and get to William Tell, ts (unless you really don't like Rossini). I think it's a good production and it has some great music, particularly for the WNO chorus who are the nonpareil of choruses in this country imv.

I would love to, and would happily take your advice Aeolium, but I have a prior engagement, and there is only one performance hereabouts......Shame.

[John Wright]

Mrs W said yes, so I will be attending my first ever 'Messiah' and Mrs W her second-ever non-pop concert

Got two excellent seats right in the middle of the floor seating!

Very much looking forward to this, especially the soloists. Michael Chance - I have quite a few recordings, even an LP from 1983 !! Just realised he is now 59, how long can counter-tenors sing??

Elin Manahan-Thomas I have heard on R3 (even just this morning at breakfast!)

Nathan Vale and Andrew Davies I have not heard anywhere as far as I know.

Choir and orchestra http://www.armonico.org.uk/

I need to persuade Mrs W that she will enjoy if she comes with me

'Messiah' at Warwick Arts Centre

Soprano - Elin Manahan-Thomas, Countertenor - Michael Chance, Tenor - Nathan Vale, Bass - Andrew Davies
Armonico Consort, Conductor: Christopher Monks

Just clicked 'Book Now' and almost sold out. Must speak with Mrs W.....

http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/w...ico-consort-2/

[kernelbogey]

How was the pompey concert ?

I enjoyed it immensely. Robert Levin played the LvB piano concerto no 1. I didn't recognise the cadenzas and asked the principal cellist about them in the interval. He said that Levin always improvises, and they never know what he'll do. This was their third night of this programme and his cadenzas had been different every time. He likes to recreate what he considers to have been the custom of the time.

I thought that Karabits seemed at home in the Brahms first symphony: a solid, lyrical and nuanced performance. I haven't heard the BSO for a couple of seasons and I think they're in excellent shape. They were the first orchestra I ever heard live... circa 1960!

I really wanted to hear the Bruckner but was committed for the nights they played it in the Anvil and Bournemouth (Poole?).

BW, kb

[kea]

http://www.chambermusic.co.nz/whats-on/borodin-quartet-2014

Unfortunately they are playing the replacement finale instead of the Grosse Fuge, but the rest of the concert should be rather good!

[zola]

Arcadi Volodos at the Festival Hall on October 28th. Schubert, Brahms and Schumann programme. Not a frequent visitor to these shores so "a rare chance to see".

[Nick Armstrong]

Arcadi Volodos at the Festival Hall on October 28th. Schubert, Brahms and Schumann programme. Not a frequent visitor to these shores so "a rare chance to see".

Zola I excitedly bought tickets as soon as they were available, looking forward to this greatly

Together with Chopin PC1 (23rd, Lisiecki) and Rachmaninov PC3 (29th, Kolesnikov), it's a piano-rich end to the month!

[zola]

Zola I excitedly bought tickets as soon as they were available, looking forward to this greatly

Together with Chopin PC1 (23rd, Lisiecki) and Rachmaninov PC3 (29th, Kolesnikov), it's a piano-rich end to the month!

A pianist friend is visiting that week and so we are also going to the Kolesnikov Rach 3 as well. We thought going to see Bhuniatishvili with Liszt's piano concerto the following day would be overkill and so are going to a lecture at the RCM instead about the challenges / opportunities of playing CPE Bach on clavichord, harpsichord and early piano !

[Nick Armstrong]

Liszt's piano concerto the following day would be overkill

In my case, just "kill" !!!

[Flosshilde]

Tomorrow night -

Berg
Wozzeck
Semi-staged performance.
Kenneth Richardson director

Thomas J Mayer - Wozzeck
Tom Randle - Captain
Michael Pflumm - Andres
Elena Zhidkova - Marie
Jennifer Johnston - Margret
Nathan Berg - Doctor
Thomas Blondelle - Drum Major
Andrew Greenan - First Apprentice
James Cleverton - Second Apprentice
Peter Van Hulle - Idiot

BBC Singers
The Choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh choir

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles  conductor

Not being broadcast live, but recorded for future broadcast.

[Nick Armstrong]

Tonight:

7:30 PM, Royal Festival Hall, London


Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Vassily Sinaisky conductor
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra



*** Also live on Radio 3 ***

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Berg
Wozzeck
Semi-staged performance.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles  conductor

How was this, Flossie - worth waiting for the broadcast?

[Bryn]

Dave Smith's 9th Piano Concert, etc. at Cafe OTO tomorrow night.