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

[DublinJimbo]

1.
Dudamel and his Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Cologne on 24th January (Messiaen's Turangalîla)

2.
Jeremy Denk performing the Goldberg Variations plus Mozart Rondo and Beethoven's Sonata No. 30 (National Concert Hall, Dublin, 4th February)

3.
'Stravinsky in Focus' (National Concert Hall, Dublin, 5th/6th February). One concert each evening. Stravinsky's Octet, Three Pieces for String Quartet, Ragtime, Symphony in Three Movements, Les Noces, Dumbarton Oaks, Concertino for String Quartet, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, Pulcinella. Good lineup of performers including the National Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ Contempo Quartet and Chamber Choir Ireland.

4.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in the Philharmonie in Paris. All the Mendelssohn symphonies over two nights (20th/21st February).

Really looking forward to this lot.

[Nick Armstrong]

LPO / Jurowski in

DSCH 'Cello Concerto No 2 (never heard it live before)
Bruckner 3

TONIGHT!

With a Schnittke starter.

This concert really crept up on me. Thought it was months away!

PS LIVE ON RADIO 3.....

[teamsaint]

LPO / Jurowski in

DSCH 'Cello Concerto No 2 (never heard it live before)
Bruckner 3

TONIGHT!

With a Schnittke starter.

This concert really crept up on me. Thought it was months away!

PS LIVE ON RADIO 3.....

looks fantastic.
Enjoy.

[Radio64]

Kraftwerk - Arena di Verona
25/07/16

[P. G. Tipps]

looks fantastic.
Enjoy.

I was THOROUGHLY enjoying this wonderfully-programmed and performed concert on Listen Again this morning ... until the wonderfully-programmed and performed concert comes to an abrupt halt just before the clinching coda of Bruckner 3.

Wish I'd been there but The Boss only permits one or two concert trips to the Smoke every year.

[Nick Armstrong]

I was THOROUGHLY enjoying this wonderfully-programmed and performed concert on Listen Again this morning ... until the wonderfully-programmed and performed concert comes to an abrupt halt just before the clinching coda of Bruckner 3.

Wish I'd been there but The Boss only permits one or two concert trips to the Smoke every year.

They usually sort out timing issues on iPlayer a day or so later. It was a surprisingly long concert - as I left (promptly, to get a lift) I noticed it was 10:05 on the clock above the RFH main bar.

Did you listen to the cello concerto? See my report here

[teamsaint]

Kraftwerk - Arena di Verona
25/07/16

Cool indeed.
Saw them at Bristol Locarno in 1981. Wonderful experience.

[Radio64]

Cool indeed.
Saw them at Bristol Locarno in 1981. Wonderful experience.

This is a '3D' concert - not sure how well that will work in the vast open air Arena, but I'm sure I know what they're doing.

Their 'one night one album' museum gigs continue in Bilbao and Oslo.

[P. G. Tipps]

They usually sort out timing issues on iPlayer a day or so later. It was a surprisingly long concert - as I left (promptly, to get a lift) I noticed it was 10:05 on the clock above the RFH main bar.

Did you listen to the cello concerto? See my report here

Funny you should mention that ... I occasionally thought she (the soloist) sounded 'out of tune' but being a layperson one doesn't always want to say such things about a work one doesn't know too well in the obvious danger of continuing to make a complete prat of oneself.

I'm normally a great enthusiast for anything by Shostakovich but this piece sounds relatively unremarkable to me but it could well grow ... still I thought the programming of Schnittke, Shostakovich and Bruckner was refreshingly different, if it did make for a rather long night, as you say.

I agree about the Bruckner. The genuine original Third is superior to the later revisions, I think, especially compared to that heavily-cut final version. Bruckner-without-the-shackles always sounds best to me! It is good to see the composer's first attempts becoming more of a concert-hall feature these days, as more and more of us are coming to realise just how much we have missed in their absence.

The orchestra certainly didn't disappoint and the sound quality was excellent.

I'll try Listen Again tomorrow!

[Nick Armstrong]

being a layperson one doesn't always want to say such things about a work one doesn't know too well in the obvious danger of continuing to make a complete prat of oneself.

I'm normally a great enthusiast for anything by Shostakovich but this piece sounds relatively unremarkable to me but it could well grow ...

Speaking as a layman myself, I've never let the danger of making a prat of myself stand in my way!

Although to be honest, it is a piece I know well, much better than DSCH's other string concertos - I can date it to buying a cassette of the Rostropovich/Ozawa recording from FNAC Montparnasse in Paris in the Spring of 1980. As one of relatively few recordings I owned, it was played to death and got under my skin. I love the links with the 15th Symphony.

I agree about the Bruckner. The genuine original Third is superior to the later revisions, I think

I think that means we disagree; the point I was making is that at this point, my feeling is that the later versions improved on this first attempt.....

[P. G. Tipps]

I think that means we disagree; the point I was making is that at this point, my feeling is that the later versions improved on this first attempt.....

I was really referring to the 'splendiferous sounds' you mention but, yes, my later wording didn't make much sense in the context of your own post to which I was supposed to be responding. Apologies for that!

And I now readily confirm that we'll just have to agree to disagree on the various versions of Bruckner 3 ...

[Bryn]

A booking rather than a ticket as such, but Morton Feldman's For Christian Wolff (Carla Rees and John Tilbury), Cafe OTO, 10th March (doors open at 7 pm - performance starts 7.30 pm sharp).

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/john-tilbury-performs-morton-feldman/

About to books for:

http://www.sjss.org.uk/events/piano-and-string-quartet too.

[Petrushka]

Just booked for a performance in the RFH of Mahler's Resurrection with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Vladimir Jurowski on April 12.

This looks well outside the usual remit of the OAE but, remembering the superb Rattle Rheingold at the 2004 Proms, I find myself intrigued. Anyone else got tickets for this?

[HighlandDougie]

Just booked for a performance in the RFH of Mahler's Resurrection with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Vladimir Jurowski on April 12.

This looks well outside the usual remit of the OAE but, remembering the superb Rattle Rheingold at the 2004 Proms, I find myself intrigued. Anyone else got tickets for this?

Serendipitous that you've highlighted this concert, Petrushka, as I have to be in London that evening so ticket duly booked.Having heard a thrilling Liszt Faust Symphony from the Jurowski/OAE combination, my expectations will be very high - as they should be, given the ticket prices!!

[Petrushka]

Serendipitous that you've highlighted this concert, Petrushka, as I have to be in London that evening so ticket duly booked.Having heard a thrilling Liszt Faust Symphony from the Jurowski/OAE combination, my expectations will be very high - as they should be, given the ticket prices!!