What classical concert did you attend?

[Antonmb]

Bart, what a wonderful opportunity. I’m quite jealous.

[bart]

Tony, we can start planning your visit and tickets!

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Tony, we can start planning your visit and tickets!

Next year perhaps!

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Next year perhaps!

Tony, PM sent.

[bart]

Time to revive this thread.
As we attend 20-30 concerts a year, there is enough material to write about, but sometimes we lack the time or energy...


Just back now from a concert where La Petite Bande brought Vivaldi in our town's main church.
Wonderful, with elegant Sara Kuijken as first violin in La Follia and The Four Seasons.
She played in a most delicate and refined way.
Sigiswald played a Cello Concerto on his violoncello da spalla.

[eljr]

Originally Posted by bart

Time to revive this thread.
As we attend 20-30 concerts a year, there is enough material to write about, but sometimes we lack the time or energy...


Just back now from a concert where La Petite Bande brought Vivaldi in our town's main church.
Wonderful, with elegant Sara Kuijken as first violin in La Follia and The Four Seasons.
She played in a most delicate and refined way.
Sigiswald played a Cello Concerto on his violoncello da spalla.

Awesome, just awesome!

I have concerts coming up.
Sir Karl Jenkin's The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace at St. Malachy's Church in Manhattan.

Harry Christophers, Britten Sinfonia, and The Sixteen will perform James MacMillan’s Miserere (U.S. premiere) and Stabat Mater (U.S. premiere) at Lincoln Center, NY, NY.

Then I have tickets to Philip Glass' opera, Akhnaten by the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.

[bart]

Originally Posted by eljr

Awesome, just awesome!

I have concerts coming up.
Sir Karl Jenkin's The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace at St. Malachy's Church in Manhattan.

Harry Christophers, Britten Sinfonia, and The Sixteen will perform James MacMillan’s Miserere (U.S. premiere) and Stabat Mater (U.S. premiere) at Lincoln Center, NY, NY.

Then I have tickets to Philip Glass' opera, Akhnaten by the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.

Ed!!

You've been away far too long!
We missed you.

You have high quality concerts coming.
Keep us informed please.

[bart]

We're just back from a great concert.
Annelien van Wauwe is a rising star on the clarinet.




The Brussels Philharmonic has toured through Europe, the States and Asia, and is a very solid orchestra.
A surprisingly young but confident conductor, who learnt his job as an assistent to Barenboim.

The concert was sold out.
I suspect some people came especially for the waltzes, but the rest of the programme was much more interesting.

Programme

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Carmen suite no. 1 (1875)

Carl-Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Clarinet concerto no.1 in f, opus 73 (1811)

Charles-Marie Widor (1845-1937)
Introduction and rondo, opus 72 (arrangement for clarinet and orchestra)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
La Valse (1919)

Johann Strauss jr. (1825-1899)
An der schönen blauen Donau, opus 314 (1867)

Performers

Brussels Philharmonic, Victorien Vanoosten
Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

[bart]

Van Wauwe was terrific in the Von Weber.
I adore that work.
The Widor is very difficult and most interesting piece.
It was the long time test piece for candidate clarinettists of the Paris Opera.




After the concert, the mayor of Bruges invited us for a reception.
Nice event!
We left with a warm feeling!

[eljr]

Originally Posted by bart

After the concert, the mayor of Bruges invited us for a reception.
Nice event!
We left with a warm feeling!

cok guzel!

Last night: Kent Tritle conducted soloists Susanna Phillips and Takaoki Onishi with the 200-voice Oratorio Society of New York and orchestra in the U.S. premiere of the New Critical Edition of Brahms’ A German Requiem. At Carnegie Hall.

It was most enjoyable.

Last Thursday I enjoyed the final rehearsal before the North American Premier of Jörg Widmann’s “Babylon” Suite.

Also, Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53, the tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss.

This was at Lincoln Center.