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Andras Schiff, Carnegie Hall Nov. 16 2023
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Chris Deiturriaga Fantastic!!
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Yesterday afternoon I saw MartinoTirimo play a programme of Chopin for the Chopin Society in London.
Simply heavenly!!!
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Nov 11th at Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal)
https://casadamusica.com/event/os-carmina-burana/
In the program there was:Richard Wagner Abertura de Tannhaüser
Harrison Birtwistle Machaut à ma manière
Carl Orff Os Carmina Burana
Even knowing Carmina Burana very well, watching it live is undoubtedly an incredible experience.
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End of September this year: Lang Lang in solo recital in Vancouver BC playing the Goldberg Variations. Divine! Worth the price of admission, as they say.
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U2 at the Sphere in Vegas...absolutely amazing.
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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) is the second oldest orchestra in the USA! It was founded in 1880. (The New York Philharmonic is the oldest. It was founded in 1842.)
I attended this concert of the SLSO earlier this month. It was wonderful!
Vitezslava Kapralova - Rustic Suite, op. 19
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Violin Concerto in D major, op. 35 - Randall Goosby, violin
Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, op. 70
There were several busloads of high school students who attended. After the concert there was a Q & A with the soloist, Randall Goosby. (I didn't attend that, but I imagine it was fun.)
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Wow...that takes me back a bit. I'm thinking it was Al Jarreau. I enjoyed concerts when the venues were smaller. Now that they are in huge settings, I don't go. I've seen more theatrical presentations and musicals in smaller, more intimate venues, and will continue to go to those.
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I was in Salzburg over the Winter holidays and attended a harpsichord and violin concert featuring Mozart's violin sonatas. I was surprised at how skilled the musicians were. They really knew the pieces and played with emotion. Well worth it if you ever visit Salzburg.
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Geoffrey Grosenbach Could I ask why you were surprised?
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Not a concert per se - "An Evening with Itzhak Perlman". What a great story teller! Oh BTW, he can play the violin...
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I recently saw Bruce Liu at Lincoln center. Absolutely brilliant!
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Charmaine Buskas Wow. That’s great. He is really a brilliant pianist.
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Last weekend I could listen to Jarred Dunn in a little village in Germany. He was playing Chopin - Mazurkas. For me it was unique, because it was the first time I got a feeling for these Mazurkas I have never understood before. His dynamics and sensibility in playing is quite wonderful .
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Kerstin Did you get to attend his masterclasses at Andrea Buckland’s music school also? I didn’t know you lived so close to each other.
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Gail Starr Hi Gail ! Yes, a was in this masterclass and it was fantastic. He is a wonderful teacher and we had a lot of fun. I had a little way (3 hours ), because I am from Munich. Was an inspiring weekend. And it was nice to met Andrea.
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Kerstin It was great to meet you, Kerstin! And thank you so much for playing!
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Ah, it's been too long. However, I received tickets to the below concert as a birthday present.
https://www.berwaldhallen.se/en/concert/harding-meets-andsnes/
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Joyce DiDonata with a jazz/tango band. She started the concert by saying that everyone was probalby expecting opera but she was bringing something else: programme attached.
She was terrific of course. She used a chromatic run a couple of times across most of her range, in which the half tones were imperceptible.
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Earlier this year attended a chamber music festival whose theme was "the four elements of nature" (that is: earth, wind, fire and water). I bought a ticket to the water themed concert mainly because I wanted to hear Mariko Furukawa play Ravel's Jeux d'eau. It was wonderful, but I was also very impressed by the rest of the program which I had no preconcieved notions about: Towards the Sea III by Tōru Takemitsu and Vox Balaenae by George Crumb. I often go to concerts because I want to hear a certain piece and most of the time the rest of the program is a pleasant surprise to me.
