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2024-03-17 16:39:00
NYO-USA All-Stars. Yannick Nezet-Sequin, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. March 14, 2024.
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall. Balcony. (Seat H121, $44).Nezet-Seguin and Trifonov after Gershwin's Concerto in F.ProgramPiano Concerto in F by George Gershwin (1898-1937).Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, "Leningrad" by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975).Artists: Alumni of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of AmericaI have not had time to do a lot of research on NYO, and the description in the Playbill is quite sketchy. It has been in existence for a little over a decade, the ensemble goes through an intensive practice during the summer, and then does a Carnegie Hall performance and an international tour. For the current year the conductor will be Marin Alsop. Tonight's orchestra consisted of about 100 of the alumni. Many are now members of professional orchestras, some are associated with universities and conservatories, and several are free lance musicians.Both the conductor and the solo pianists are of course superstars in […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
James McVinnie performing at the Royal Festival Hall organ with Bedroom Community - Sept 2015The Royal Festival Hall organ is 70. Built from 1950–1954 to the specification of the London County Council's consultant, Ralph Downes, it was restored and re-configured by Harrison & Harrison as part of the hall's reconstruction during 2005-2007 and it was re-inaugurated on its 60th anniversary in March 2014. Now, to celebrate the instrument's 70th birthday, organist James McVinnie has a residency at the Southbank Centre featuring organ recitals including a wide range of repertoire as well as an appearance by the James McVinnie Ensemble.Though James had played the organ once before the rebuild, he was not familiar with it until he came to play it as part of the 2014 celebrations. But he spent two years as an organ scholar at St Albans Cathedral where the organ was also designed by Ralph Downes and built […]
2024-03-15 17:51:00
New Jersey Symphony. Xian Zhang, conductor; Tom Borrow, piano. March 14, 2024.
NJPAC, Newark, NJ. Orchestra (Seat H101, $46).At the conclusion of the concert. Notice on the far right the regular principal bass.ProgramNightVision (2001, rev. 2002) by Ludwig (b. 1974).Piano Concerto No. 24 (1786) in C Minor, K. 491 by Mozart (1756-1791).Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 by Tchaikovsky.It was a nice spring day. The cherry blossoms are in bloom.The Program Notes contains much praise for the two "classical" pieces for this after (concert start 1:30 pm). And its description of NightVision is quite interesting also. My first thoughts were the concert had the potential of being "great," but would the NJ Symphony be able to deliver?Ludwig's name is David Serkin Ludwig. He is Peter Serkin's nephew, and Rudolf Serkin's grandson. So quite a musical heritage. He is no slouch either, as he is Dean of Music at Julliard. (The others Deans head up dance and drama.) This 7-minute piece […]
2024-03-15 10:40:00
KammermusiksaalMendelssohn: Psalm 115, ‘Nicht unserm Namen, Herr’, MWV A 9 Fanny Hensel: Hiob Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, op.23 no.2, MWV B 19 Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten, MWV B 49 Bach: Cantata, ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’, BWV 75: Sinfonia to the second part Mendelssohn: Psalm 114, ‘Da Israel aus Ägypten zog,’ op.51 Anna Prohaska (soprano)Benjamin Bruns (tenor)Ludwig Mittelhammer (bass)RIAS Chamber ChoirKammerakademie PotsdamJustin Doyle (conductor) A delightful and enlightening concert from the RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle, and an excellent trio of vocal soloists: focusing on Mendelssohn, but also including a cantata by his sister Fanny Hensel and a sinfonia by the family’s musical house god, Johann Sebastian Bach. Mendelssohn’s setting of verses from the 115th Psalm was the first of five such large-scale settings he made for soloists, chorus, and orchestra between 1829 and 1844. It revealed almost equally strong influence from Bach and Handel, the latter in particular occasionally […]
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