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2023-12-04 21:18:00
New York Philharmonic. Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Katia and Marielle Labeque, pianos. December 1, 2023.
[…] I don't recall hearing any of Liszt's ever, but Strauss's have made regular appearances in concerts I attend. Indeed, Don Juan was on the NJ Symphony program in January this year. One would think the various conquests of the Don would be clear, but I couldn't tell how many were described in the piece, and (to be somewhat prurient) how the conquests were made. That final thrust of the sword, however, is quite obvious.The concertmaster (Staples for today) had to play a few solo melodies, and the sound was weaker than I expected, given how dependable she had been in the past. The ear is a funny thing. In the NJ Symphony concert Bell acted both as a concertmaster (in Mendelssohn's Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream) and a soloist (his violin concerto). In the first instance he just blended with the violin section, and in the second instance his violin […]
2023-10-29 18:26:00
New York Philharmonic. Jeannette Sorrell, conductor. October 28, 2023.
David Geffen Hall. Orchestra 3 (Seat AA118, $70).Photo taken after Act II, before the intermission. There were only 4 soloists at this point.ProgramIsrael in Egypt, Oratorio in Three Parts, HWV 54 (1739) by Handel (1685-1759). Adapted by Jeannette Sorrell.ArtistsSoloists: Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Sonya Headlam, soprano; Cody Bowers, countertenor; Jacob Perry, tenor; Edward Vogel, baritone.Apollo's Singers (Chorus of Apollo's Fire), Jeannette Sorrell, artistic director.Sheryl Staples, Lisa Eunsoo Kim, violins; Carter Brey, cello; Robert Botti, oboe; Christopher Martin, trumpet; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord.This is an oratorio composed by Handel in the span of about a month. In its original form it lasts about 3 hours. Over the years different people have made various attempts to shorten it. Tonight's version, about 100 minutes in duration, was adapted by Sorrell in 2017. In the Program Notes she mentions her restoring some portions of Part I to make the storyline more complete. To keep the oratorio's duration […]
2023-10-26 14:00:37
Orchestre National de Lyon/Szeps-Znaider(Bru Zane, two CDs)This two-disc compilation provides a potted history of the symphonic poem genre in France. Charlotte Sohy’s little known Danse Mystique stands out as a remarkable discoveryThe symphonic poem came of age with the dozen or so examples that Liszt completed in the 1850s. The genre soon split into nationalist schools – Czech works by Smetana and Dvořák, Russian by Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov, German by Strauss and Schoenberg – and Bru Zane’s two-disc compilation provides a potted history of the genre in France, from César Franck to Lili Boulanger. Some of the 15 works included are concert Staples – Franck’s Le Chasseur Maudit, Paul Dukas’ L’Apprenti Sorcier, Emmanuel Chabrier’s España, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre – but many of the other composers represented here are forgotten now.Stylistically they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, […]
2023-09-26 18:38:00
Harding Out, Chan In
Elim Chan(Photo not credited in SFS press release)Daniel Harding has withdrawn from his scheduled San Francisco Symphony appearance next month; he will be conducting the Cleveland Orchestra on their tour of Israel. Franz Welser-Möst has withdrawn from that tour for medical reasons.Elim Chan, chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, will conduct these concerts, retaining Holst's The Planets and substituting Britten's Les Illuminations (with tenor Andrew Staples) for Ralph Vaughn Williams's On Wenlock Edge.The dates are October 26-28, 2023.
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