Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 8 PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Pierre Boulez Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage BOULEZ | Livre pour cordes BARTÓK | Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion, and Orchestra (Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich, pianos) STRAVINSKY | The Firebird (complete) A privilege to hear Boulez conduct, last night for the third time in […]
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8 PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Pierre Boulez Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage RAVEL | Le Tombeau de Couperin DALBAVIE | Flute Concerto (Mathieu Dufour, flute) BARTÓK | Bluebeard’s Castle (Michelle DeYoung, mezzo; Falk Struckmann, bass-baritone) To carry Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle to its bloodcurdling pitch without recourse to hysterics is […]
[program for the New York premiere of Mahler’s 7th, from the Carnegie Hall archives] Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Hampson, Baritone MAHLER | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Symphony No. 7 I will never know the Seventh well enough, but strongly suspect that Barenboim could know it […]
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[Sextner Dolomiten in Südtirol, where Mahler completed his Sixth Symphony] Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Pierre Boulez MAHLER | Symphony No. 6, ‘Tragic’ Of the four concerts in this series I have attended, last night’s account of the Sixth has emerged as the most impressive. A world plunged deep and […]
[the Scherzo from Mahler’s 5th in ms at the Morgan Library] Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 2 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone MAHLER | Rückert Lieder & Symphony No. 5 Daniel Barenboim resumed the podium this afternoon for an indefatigable account of Mahler’s Fifth, following Pierre Boulez’s three-night vigil through the […]
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A compelling essay in the May issue of Opera News by the Washington Post‘s Philip Kennicott persuasively addresses the vexing question of Mahler’s vital yet fraught relationship to opera: […] Opera-lovers tend to think of song and symphony as the rudiments of opera, as if opera were the natural apotheosis of two lesser forms. But […]
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Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Pierre Boulez Westminster Symphonic Choir, dir. Eberhard Friedrich Soloists: Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) MAHLER | Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’ For me, as for many Mahler devotees I’ve known or known of (and not only the fabled Gilbert Kaplan, for whom it was a […]
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone MAHLER | Kindertotenlieder & Symphony No. 1 Last night began the Staatskapelle Berlin’s much-anticipated, ten-part Mahler symphonic and song cycle at Carnegie Hall. Three Maestros ‘B’ are here involved or invoked: conducted alternatingly by Boulez and Barenboim (the Staatskapelle’s General […]
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Monday, March 9, 2009 at 8 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, dir. Pierre Boulez Pre-concert talk by Ara Guzelimian, Provost & Dean, The Juilliard School. JANÁČEK | Sinfonietta SZYMANOWSKI | Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35. Soloist: Frank Peter Zimmermann STRAVINSKY | Pulcinella (complete). Soloists: Roxana Constantinescu (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Kyle Ketelsen (bass-baritone) The Janáček […]
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