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2024-02-04 16:27:00
New York Philharmonic. Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; Golda Schultz, soprano; Francesco Piemontesi, piano. February 2, 2024.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Tier 1 (Seat BB101, $93).ProgramCh'io mi scordi di te? ... Non terner, amato bene, Scene and Rondo, K.505 (1786) by Mozart (1756-91).Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 (1786) by Mozart.Symphony No. 4 (1892 and 1899-1901, rev. 1901-11) by Mahler (1860-1911).This concert wasn't part of my original subscription, it didn't make it to the top of the list of 13 or so concerts I got tickets for. Seats were still available when we realized that we wouldn't be able to make the 2/22 concert (with Emanuel Ax on the program) as I will be away. I can't predict how the two programs compare, but this was quite a concert, though.The anchor for the afternoon (concert started at 2 pm) was the Mahler piece. At over an hour it was 20 minutes longer than the first half. Relatively short for a Mahler symphony, […]
2024-01-06 18:47:16
Musically speaking, 2024 is coming in like a Lamb. The Chicago […]
2023-12-16 09:42:00
A sense of dramatic narrative: Wild Arts in Handel's Messiah at The Art Workers' Guild
[…] more a feeling of bringing out the drama. Handel: Messiah - Wild Arts at The Art Workers' Guild (Photo: Lucy Toms Photography)What worked for me was the idea that each movement (aria or chorus) was a response to what had been expressed or said previously. This might sound obvious, but too often Messiah can simply be a series of memorable moments. Here, the drama seemed to flow and evolve, so that for instance after the chorus 'Behold the Lamb of God' which opened Part II, Catherine Backhouse seemed to simply emerge from the chorus and turn that general contemplation into something personal for 'He was despised', with the choruses that come after feeling like group response.Now, this is not an approach to Messiah that would work for me every time, but in terms of bringing the work to life on a small scale whilst avoiding any sense of a cut-down version, this was a […]
2023-12-13 19:17:00
New York Philharmonic. Fabio Biondi, conductor. December 12, 2023.
[…] a last minute decision. It seemed the quality of the performance improved after the intermission, so perhaps the latter happened. Similarly remarks can be made of Ludwig's singing.If one compares the movements in tonight's performance with what we heard in Boston back in November, there are some noticeable differences. One example was the first movement in Part II tonight it was the air "He was despised" while in Boston it was the chorus "Behold the Lamb of God." And in Part III both the Alto recitative "Then shall be brought to pass" and Alto and Tenor duet "O Death, Where is Thy Sting" are missing in the Boston production. I wonder if there are standard variations to Messiah, or the conductor makes the decisions on how a particular performance is put together. The Wikipedia article on the oratorio has a complete listing of all the movements.Intermission at 7:55 pm. For […]
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