DOCSLIB.ORG

Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Sir John Eliot Gardiner LSO SEASON CONCERTS SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER Thursday 7 February 2019 7.30–9.30pm Barbican Weber Overture: Euryanthe Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Piano Interval Schumann Symphony No 3, ‘Rhenish’ Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Isabelle Faust violin Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano SCHUMANN Programme Notes on Pages 4 to 9 Sunday 10 February 2019 7–9pm Barbican Hall Schumann Overture: Manfred Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 Interval Schumann Symphony No 1, ‘Spring’ Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Piotr Anderszewski piano Programme Notes on Pages 10 to 14 Welcome Latest News On Our Blog Thanks to our media partner Classic FM, CENTRE FOR MUSIC ORCHESTRA’S CHOICE: SCHUMANN who have recommended this concert to their listeners. Thursday evening will be broadcast The LSO, Barbican and Guildhall School have LSO players share stories about their live on the LSO’s YouTube channel, and both ambitious plans for a new London concert favourite music by Robert Schumann concerts will also be captured for the LSO’s hall. The vision for the Centre for Music is and how it came into their lives, from the own recording label LSO Live, as part of a to develop a world-class venue for music symphonies to chamber music to song. complete cycle of Schumann’s symphonies and education. First concept designs for the • lso.co.uk/blog conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. project have now been released. • lso.co.uk/news I hope that you enjoy the performances and MEET LAHAV SHANI that you will be able to join us again soon. In these two LSO concerts at the Barbican we In the LSO’s next concert at the Barbican, on THANK YOU TO THE LSO GUARDIANS Ahead of his LSO debut on 28 February, welcome back Sir John Eliot Gardiner, as he Sunday 17 February, pianist Daniil Trifonov conductor Lahav Shani talks about Kurt completes his survey of Robert Schumann’s launches his LSO Artist Portrait with Ravel’s On 10 February we welcome the LSO Weill, musical life in Tel Aviv and stepping symphonies, alongside works by the Piano Concerto in G, conducted by the LSO’s Guardians and extend our thanks for their into Zubin Mehta’s shoes as Music Director composer’s contemporaries and colleagues: Music Director Sir Simon Rattle. commitment to the Orchestra and for their of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Weber. pledge to remember the LSO in their Will. • lso.co.uk/blog In making this commitment, they help to On Thursday 7 February, keyboard artist ensure that our world-class artistic programme Kristian Bezuidenhout makes his London and pioneering education and community 7 FEBRUARY: LIVE-STREAMED CONCERT debut with the Orchestra, appearing projects will thrive for years to come. alongside violinist Isabelle Faust in Kathryn McDowell CBE DL • lso.co.uk/legacies This concert will be broadcast live on our Mendelssohn’s lesser-heard Concerto for Managing Director YouTube channel and will be available to Violin and Piano, which the young prodigy WELCOME TO TONIGHT’S GROUPS watch back for free for the next 90 days. wrote at the age of just 14. On Sunday Visit our website to find out about future 10 February, long-standing friend of the A warm welcome to Campus Travel Groups, broadcasts and how to watch. LSO Piotr Anderszewski returns as soloist Gerrards Cross Community Association, • lso.co.uk/livestream in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. The Friends of St Albans Abbey and the United Wards Club (7 February) and Please ensure all phones are switched off. the Institute of Global Studies at the Photography and audio/video recording University of Delaware (10 February). are not permitted during the music. 2 Welcome 7 & 10 February 2019 Continuing the LSO’s concert series with two of the most astounding musicians of our time … ARTIST Rameau, Betsy Jolas, Poulenc & Ravel with Daniil Trifonov & Sir Simon Rattle 17 February Ligeti, Haydn, Berg and Gershwin with Barbara Hannigan 17 March Ives & Beethoven with Daniil Trifonov & Michael Tilson Thomas 2 June Solo Recital: Beethoven & Prokofiev with Daniil Trifonov 10 June Beethoven, Berlioz & Shostakovich with Daniil Trifonov & Gianandrea Noseda 16 June Daniil Trifonov & Barbara Hannigan Read more and book online lso.co.uk/whats-on Thursday 7 February 2019 In Brief / by Stephen Johnson LSO SEASON CONCERT hree giants of 19th-century German firing at top strength, and the result was GARDINER’S SCHUMANN Romanticism rub shoulders in this exuberant, colourful, moody and finally this uplifting programme. Weber’s joyous five-movement symphony. It sounds Weber Overture: Euryanthe opera Euryanthe was a flop, largely thanks to as though it was all conceived in a single Mendelssohn Concerto for Violin and Piano its toe-curling, absurdly engineered libretto. sweep, and the current of the great river runs Interval But there is great music in Euryanthe and, through all of it, carrying the tide of dazzling Schumann Symphony No 3, ‘Rhenish’ fortunately for us, the purely orchestral ideas irresistibly to its exultant conclusion. • Overture is a rip-roaring success, with fine Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor sweeping love-melodies and a wonderfully Isabelle Faust violin eerie brief appearance of a ghost. Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano Mendelssohn was just 14 when he wrote his PROGRAMME CONTRIBUTORS Concerto for Violin and Piano, but he was already a highly experienced composer, and Stephen Johnson is the author of Bruckner just two years short of writing his string Remembered (Faber). He also contributes Streamed live at youtube.com/lso Octet, one of the towering masterpieces regularly to BBC Music Magazine and The of the Romantic chamber repertoire. Guardian, and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 Concert ends approx 9.30pm This Concerto may not be a fully perfect (Discovering Music), BBC Radio 4 and the achievement, but it is full of startling, BBC World Service. memorable ideas and bursting with life, and the dramatic reversal at the end – Andrew Stewart is a freelance music triumph twisted at the last minute into journalist and writer. He is the author tragedy – is stunning. Mastery, one senses, of The LSO at 90, and contributes to is only just around the corner. a wide variety of specialist classical music publications. Robert Schumann had just taken up the post of conductor in the city of Düsseldorf when he wrote his ‘Rhenish’ Symphony – a prospect that both enthralled and terrified him. Exploring the Rhineland countryside and seeing the cathedral in Cologne set Schumann’s normally fertile imagination 4 Concert Introduction 7 February 2019 Carl Maria von Weber Overture: Euryanthe Op 81 1823 / note by Stephen Johnson he world premiere of Weber’s opera fidelity of his beloved Euryanthe. Soon after education. In 1798 Weber went to Salzburg Der Freischütz (The Free-Shooter) this the much more melodious second theme to study with Michael Haydn, and that same in Berlin in 1821 was the high (violins) derives from another of Adolar’s year saw Weber’s first published work – six point of the composer’s career. Soon it was arias, again expressing his love and devotion. fughettas for piano. Aged 14, Weber and playing in opera houses all over the western family moved to Freiburg where he wrote his world. The influence of Der Freischütz on a Weber’s flair for daring orchestration, so first opera Das Waldmädchen (The Forest whole generation of Romantic nationalists much on display in Der Freischütz, reveals Maiden). The latter half of the first decade was immense, and not just in Weber’s itself at the beginning of the central of the century was marred with troubles for native Germany. Alas, he was never to repeat development section, where the tempo Weber – debt, an ill-fated affair, his father its success. His opera Euryanthe (1823) was drops to Largo and eight muted solo violins, misappropriating a vast amount of money – reasonably well received, at first, but doubts with tremolando violas, conjure up the ghost however, he remained a prolific composer. soon escalated, especially concerning its of Euryanthe’s sister Emma, who saves the libretto, which degenerates into absurdity day by scaring the heroine’s duplicitous rival Things brightened up from 1810; he visited in the third act, in which all the characters Eglantine into confessing her wickedness. several cities and spent time as Director meet quite coincidentally in the middle of The return of Adolar’s themes in the final of Opera in Prague and Dresden, and also a rocky desert. recapitulatory section unquestionably CARL MARIA VON WEBER 1786–1826 worked in Berlin promoting and establishing heralds the opera’s concluding celebration German opera. The successful premiere The music, however, is another matter – of faith and true love. • orn in Holstein, North Germany, of Der Freischütz in Berlin in 1821 led to the influential musicologist Donald Tovey Weber was the eldest of three performances all over Europe. In 1823 he was even pronounced it superior musically to children. After being discharged invited to the Royal Opera House, Covent Wagner’s Lohengrin – and there have been from the militia, his father Franz took up Garden, to compose and produce Oberon, several prestigious attempts to rescue it. a number of musical directorships and which premiered in 1826. Fortunately for orchestral concert-goers, founded a theatre company in Hamburg. the Overture to Euryanthe is an unqualified His mother Genovefa was a Viennese singer. While in London, Weber was already success, and it manages to give a taste of Weber had four musically gifted cousins, suffering from tuberculosis, which then took what Weber might have achieved if he’d one of whom was Constanze Weber, who hold entirely. He died at the house of Sir found a better text.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė Soprano
    LAURYNA BENDŽIŪNAITĖ SOPRANO BIOGRAPHY LONG VERSION Lauryna Bendžiūnaitė is a Lithuanian soprano who was a member of the ensemble of Staatstheater Stuttgart from 2014 - 2018. Her roles in Stuttgart have included Musetta, Ännchen, Zerlina, Susanna and Karolka. She also sang Dalinda in Handel’s Ariodante, appeared in Bieito’s new production of Purcell’s Fairy Queen conducted by Curnyn, as well as, in die Dirne Boesmans’s Reigen. Last season she performed Susanna at the Opera National du Rhin where she will return to sing Despina in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte. Ms. Bendžiūnaitė studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Joy Mammen, winning the Pavarotti prize before moving on to further studies with Dennis O’Neil and Kiri te Kanawa. Prior to attending the Royal Academy, Ms. Bendžiūnaitė had studied with professor R. Maciutė at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre gaining the first prize in the International XXI Century Art Contest (Ukraine). She has since been a member of the Vilnius City Opera where her roles have included Pamina, Despina, Musetta, Sophie (Werther) and Johanna (Sweeney Todd). With the Lithuanian National Opera she sang Xenia (Boris Godunov). In 2012 Ms. Bendžiūnaitė sang Musetta at the Royal Swedish Opera where she was invited to repeat the role in 2013. In concert Ms. Bendžiūnaitė has performed with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra regularly performs with the State Symphony Orchestra and the National Chamber Orchestra. She appeared in gala concerts with Kiri Te Kanawa in London and Dublin. She toured with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Trevor Pinnock with music from Purcell’s Fairy Queen and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Nights Dream, which she also sang at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2017.
    [Show full text]
  • ONYX 4001 BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 1 Page 16:30 12/9/06 (MPO) 4001 BK ONYX ONYX 4001 BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 2
    ONYX 4001_BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 1 viktoria mullova IL GIARDINO ARMONICO GIOVANNI ANTONINI VIVALDI p1 ONYX 4001_BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 2 ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Concerto in D Major ré majeur D-Dur violin, strings and basso continuo “Grosso Mogul” RV 208 1 I Allegro 5.38 2 II Recitativo: Grave 2.27 3 III Allegro 4.45 Concerto in B Minor si mineur h-Moll four violins and cello RV 580 (op. 3 no. 10) 4 I Allegro 3.38 5 II Largo – Larghetto – Largo 2.07 6 III Allegro 3.07 VIKTORIA MULLOVA, STEFANO BARNESCHI, MARCO BIANCHI, RICCARDO MASAHIDE MINASI – violins MARCO TESTORI – cello p2 ONYX 4001_BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 3 Concerto in C Major ut majeur C-Dur violin, strings and basso continuo RV 187 7 I Allegro 4.28 8 II Largo ma non molto 3.02 9 III Allegro 4.12 Concerto in D Major ré majeur D-Dur violin, strings and basso continuo RV 234 “L’Inquietudine” 10 I Allegro molto 1.59 11 II Largo 1.31 12 III Allegro 2.45 Concerto in E Minor mi mineur e-Moll violin, strings and basso continuo RV 277 “Il Favorito” p3 13 I Allegro 4.38 14 II Andante 3.40 15 III Allegro 4.36 VIKTORIA MULLOVA – violin ‘Jules Falk’ Stradivarius (1723) IL GIARDINO ARMONICO GIOVANNI ANTONINI – conductor ONYX 4001_BK (MPO) 12/9/06 16:30 Page 4 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was a virtuoso violinist, a fact borne out by his prolific output for the instrument: of nearly 640 instrumental works, 253 are violin concertos.
    [Show full text]
  • Rudolf Buchbinder, Piano
    Cal Performances Presents Sunday, September 21, 2008, 3pm Hertz Hall Rudolf Buchbinder, piano PROGRAM Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2, No. 3 (1795) Allegro con brio Adagio Scherzo: Allegro Allegro assai Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54 (1804) In tempo d’un Menuetto Allegretto INTERMISSION Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 (1809) Adagio cantabile — Allegro ma non troppo Allegro vivace Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79 (1809) Presto alla tedesca Andante Vivace Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 (1816) Allegretto, ma non troppo Vivace alla marcia Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto — Tempo del primo pezzo — Allegro This performance is made possible, in part, through the generosity of The Hon. Kathryn Walt Hall and Craig Hall. Cal Performances’ 2008–2009 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. CAL PERFORMANCES 25 About the Artist About the Artist performed Diabelli Variations collection written by Mozart and Beethoven. Mr. Buchbinder will visit Mr. Buchbinder attaches considerable impor- 50 Austrian composers. His 18-disc set of Haydn’s Munich several times throughout the season, per- tance to the meticulous study of musical sources. works earned him the Grand Prix du Disque, and forming the complete cycle of Beethoven sona- He owns more than 18 complete editions of his cycle of Mozart’s complete piano concertos with tas at the Prinzregententheater. In October and Beethoven’s sonatas and has an extensive collec- the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, recorded live at November, he will tour the United States with the tion of autograph scores, first editions and original the Vienna Konzerthaus, was chosen by Joachim Dresden Staatskapelle under Luisi, performing at documents.
    [Show full text]
  • 143-Signs-Games-And-Messages
    JenniferKoh_Signs_MECH_OL_r1.indd 1 8/19/2013 2:43:06 PM Producer & Engineer Judith Sherman Editing Bill Maylone Recorded American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, April 27–28 and v LEOŠ JANÁCEK (1854–1928) October 14–17, 2012 Sonata for Violin and Piano JW VII/7 (17:29) Front Cover Design Sue Cottrill 1 I. Con moto (4:48) 3 III. Allegretto (2:38) Inside Booklet & Inlay Card Nancy Bieschke 2 II. Ballada: Con moto (5:13) 4 IV. Adagio (4:39) Cover Photography Jürgen Frank GYÖRGY KURTÁG (b. 1926) 5 Doina (from Játékok, Vol. VI)* (2:28) 6 The Carenza Jig (from Signs, Games and Messages)† (0:45) Tre Pezzi for Violin and Piano, Op. 14e (5:31) 7 I. Öd und traurig (2:14) Cedille Records is a trademark of Cedille Chicago, NFP (fka The Chicago Classical Recording 8 II. Vivo (1:06) Foundation), a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the finest musicians and ensembles 9 III. Aus der Ferne: sehr leise, äusserst langsam (2:05) in the Chicago area. Cedille Chicago’s activities are supported in part by contributions and grants ** from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies including the Irving Harris bk Fundamentals No. 2 (from Játékok, Vol. VI) (0:30) † Foundation, Mesirow Financial, NIB Foundation, Negaunee Foundation, Sage Foundation, and the bl In memoriam Blum Tamás (from Signs, Games and Messages) (3:08) * Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. bm Like the flowers of the field... (from Játékok, Vol. V) (1:52) † bn Postcard to Anna Keller (from Signs, Games and Messages) (0:30) ** bo A Hungarian Lesson for Foreigners (from Játékok, Vol.
    [Show full text]
  • Rawsthorne and Other Rarities
    Rawsthorne and other rarities Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) Chamber Cantata 11:59 1 I Of a Rose is al myn Song 3:34 2 II Lenten ys come 2:17 3 III Wynter Wakeneth al my Care 4:11 4 IV The Nicht is near gone 1:56 Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Harvey Davies (harpsichord), Solem Quartet Halsey Stevens (1908-1989) Sonatina Piacevole 5:29 5 I Allegro moderato 1:52 6 II Poco lento, quasi ciaccona 1:50 7 III Allegro 1:47 John Turner (recorder), Harvey Davies (harpsichord) Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971), edited and arranged by Peter Dickinson (b.1934) Practical Cats (texts by T.S. Eliot) 21:09 8 I Overture 2:22 9 II The Naming of Cats 2:59 10 III The Old Gumbie Cat 4:25 11 IV Gus, the Theatre Cat 3:48 12 V Bustopher Jones 2:32 13 VI Old Deuteronomy 3:37 14 VII The Song of the Jellicles 1:24 Mark Rowlinson (reciter), Peter Lawson (piano) Basil Deane (1928-2006) / Raymond Warren (b.1928) The Rose Tree (texts by W. B. Yeats) 5:27 15 I The Rose Tree 2:23 16 II I am of Ireland 3:04 Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), John Turner (recorder), Stephanie Tress (cello) S This recording is dedicated to the memory of John McCabe, CBE Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) 17 The Willow Whistle 1:04 Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), John Turner (bamboo pipe) Karel Janovický (b.1930) 18 The Little Linden Pipe 3:19 John Turner (recorder) Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) String Quartet in B minor 15:12 19 I Fugue (molto adagio) — 5:00 20 II Andante – Allegretto 3:40 21 III Molto allegro quasi presto 6:31 Solem Quartet Donald Waxman (b.1925) 22 Serenade and Caprice 7:33 John
    [Show full text]
  • Piotr Anderszewski Piano
    PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI PIANO Biography Piotr Anderszewski is regarded as one of the most prominent pianists of his generation and appears regularly in all of the world's major concert halls. His collaborations with orchestra have included appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, the London and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, which he also conducted from the piano. Recitals have taken him to the Barbican Center in London and the Royal Festival Hall, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Carnegie Hall and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. His recordings include Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, which received the Choc du Monde de la Musique; the Grammy nominated Bach Partitas 1, 3 and 6 as well as a recording with works by his countryman Szymanowski. His album with solo works by Schumann received two BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2012, including the Recording of the Year. His recording of Bach's English Suites 1, 3 and 5 received the Gramophone Award for best instrumental album in 2015. After the solo album "Fantaisies" with works by Mozart and Schumann in February 2017, the Mozart Piano Concertos No. 25 & 27 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe was recorded in January 2018. Recognised for the intensity and originality of his interpretations, Piotr Anderszewski has been a recipient of several high-profile awards over the course of his career, including the prestigious Gilmore Award, which is presented every four years to a pianist of exceptional talent. The director Bruno Monsaingeon shot two award-winning documentaries about him for ARTE. The first, from 2001, sheds light on Anderszewski's special relationship to the Diabelli Variations, while the second, “Piotr Anderszewski, Traveler Without Rest” (2008) is an artist portrait and reflects Anderszewski's thoughts on music, concert activities and his Polish-Hungarian roots.
    [Show full text]
  • Music in the Pavilion
    UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARIES KISLAK CENTER Music in the Pavilion PHOTO BY SHARON TERELLO NIGHT MUSIC A SUBTLE AROMA OF ROMANTICISM Friday, September 27, 2019 Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/music-pavilion .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................................................... .................................................................................. ........... ............ ......... A SUBTLE AROMA OF ROMANTICISM NIGHT MUSIC Andrew Willis, piano Steven Zohn, flute Rebecca Harris, violin Amy Leonard, viola Eve Miller, cello Heather Miller Lardin, double bass PIANO TRIO IN D MINOR, OP. 49 (1840) FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–47) MOLTO ALLEGRO AGITATO ANDANTE CON MOTO TRANQUILLO SCHERZO: LEGGIERO E VIVACE FINALE: ALLEGRO ASSAI APPASSIONATO PIANO QUINTET IN A MINOR, OP. 30 (1842) LOUISE FARRENC (1804–75) ALLEGRO ADAGIO NON TROPPO SCHERZO: PRESTO FINALE: ALLEGRO The piano used for this concert was built in 1846 by the Paris firm of Sébastien Érard. It is a generous gift to the Music Department by Mr. Yves Gaden (G ’73), in loving memory of his wife Monique (1950-2009). ...................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet Cycle
    Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet Cycle Concerts V and VI March 25–26, 2017 Rackham Auditorium Ann Arbor CONTENT Concert V Saturday, March 25, 8:00 pm 3 Beethoven’s Impact: Steven Mackey 7 Beethoven’s Impact: Adam Sliwinski 13 Concert VI Sunday, March 26, 4:00 pm 15 Beethoven’s Impact: Lowell Liebermann 18 Beethoven’s Impact: Augusta Read Thomas 21 Artists 25 Takács Quartet Concert V Edward Dusinberre / Violin Károly Schranz / Violin Geraldine Walther / Viola András Fejér / Cello Saturday Evening, March 25, 2017 at 8:00 Rackham Auditorium Ann Arbor 51st Performance of the 138th Annual Season 54th Annual Chamber Arts Series This evening’s presenting sponsor is the William R. Kinney Endowment. Media partnership provided by WGTE 91.3 FM and WRCJ 90.9 FM. Special thanks to Steven Whiting for his participation in events surrounding this weekend’s performances. The Takács Quartet records for Hyperion and Decca/London Records. The Takács Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado in Boulder and are Associate Artists at Wigmore Hall, London. The Takács Quartet appears by arrangement with Seldy Cramer Artists. In consideration of the artists and the audience, please refrain from the use of electronic devices during the performance. The photography, sound recording, or videotaping of this performance is prohibited. PROGRAM Beethoven String Quartets Concert V String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 Allegro con brio Adagio ma non troppo Scherzo: Allegro La malinconia: Adagio — Allegretto quasi Allegro String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135 Allegretto Vivace Lento assai e cantante tranquillo Grave — Allegro — Grave, ma non troppo tratto — Allegro Intermission String Quartet in C Major, Op.
    [Show full text]
  • The English Concert – Biography
    The English Concert – Biography The English Concert is one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras specialising in historically informed performance. Created by Trevor Pinnock in 1973, the orchestra appointed Harry Bicket as its Artistic Director in 2007. Bicket is renowned for his work with singers and vocal collaborators, including in recent seasons Lucy Crowe, Elizabeth Watts, Sarah Connolly, Joyce DiDonato, Alice Coote and Iestyn Davies. The English Concert has a wide touring brief and the 2014-15 season will see them appear both across the UK and abroad. Recent highlights include European and US tours with Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato, David Daniels and Andreas Scholl as well as the orchestra’s first tour to mainland China. Harry Bicket directed The English Concert and Choir in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at the 2012 Leipzig Bachfest and later that year at the BBC proms, a performance that was televised for BBC4. Following the success of Handel’s Radamisto in New York 2013, Carnegie Hall has commissioned one Handel opera each season from The English Concert. Theodora followed in early 2014, which toured West Coast of the USA as well as the Théâtre des Champs Elysées Paris and the Barbican London followed by a critically acclaimed tour of Alcina in October 2014. Future seasons will see performances of Handel’s Hercules and Orlando. The English Concert’s discography includes more than 100 recordings with Trevor Pinnock for Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, and a series of critically acclaimed CDs for Harmonia Mundi with violinist Andrew Manze. Recordings with Harry Bicket have been widely praised, including Lucy Crowe’s debut solo recital, Il caro Sassone.
    [Show full text]
  • November 4 November 11
    NOVEMBER 4 ISSUE NOVEMBER 11 Orders Due October 7 23 Orders Due October 14 axis.wmg.com 11/1/16 AUDIO & VIDEO RECAP ARTIST TITLE LBL CNF UPC SEL # SRP ORDERS DUE Hope, Bob Bob Hope: Hope for the Holidays (DVD) TL DV 610583538595 31845-X 12.95 9/30/16 Last Update: 09/20/16 For the latest up to date info on this release visit axis.wmg.com. ARTIST: Bob Hope TITLE: Bob Hope: Hope for the Holidays (DVD) Label: TL/Time Life/WEA Config & Selection #: DV 31845 X Street Date: 11/01/16 Order Due Date: 09/30/16 UPC: 610583538595 Box Count: 30 Unit Per Set: 1 SRP: $12.95 Alphabetize Under: H ALBUM FACTS Genre: Television Description: HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS... There’s no place like home for the holidays. And there really was no place like Bob Hope’s home for the holidays with Bob, Dolores and the Hope family. They invited friends from the world of entertainment and sports to celebrate and reminisce about vintage seasonal sketches in the 1993 special Bob Hope’s Bag Full of Christmas Memories. Bob Hope’s TV Christmas connection began on December 24, 1950, with The Comedy Hour. Heartwarming and fun—that’s the way Bob planned it. No Christmas party would be complete without music, while flubbed lines in some sketches remain intact and a blooper really hits below the belt. The host of Christmases past hands out laughs galore! HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: A compilation of Bob’s monologues from his many holiday tours for the USO Department store Santas Robert Cummings and Bob swap stories on the subway Redd Foxx and Bob play reindeer reluctant to guide Santa’s sleigh
    [Show full text]
  • May 2018 List
    May 2018 Catalogue Issue 25 Prices valid until Wednesday 27 June 2018 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address5} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Glorious sunshine and summer temperatures prevail as this foreword is being written, but we suspect it will all be over by the time you are reading it! On the plus side, at least that means we might be able to tempt you into investing in a little more listening material before the outside weather arrives for real… We were pleasantly surprised by the number of new releases appearing late April and into May, as you may be able to tell by the slightly-longer-than-usual new release portion of this catalogue. Warner & Erato certainly have plenty to offer us, taking up a page and half of the ‘priorities’ with new recordings from Nigel Kennedy, Philippe Jaroussky, Emmanuel Pahud, David Aaron Carpenter and others, alongside some superbly compiled boxsets including a Massenet Opera Collection, performances from Joseph Keilberth (in the ICON series), and two interesting looking Debussy collections: ‘Centenary Discoveries’ and ‘His First Performers’. Rachel Podger revisits Vivaldi’s Four Seasons for Channel Classics (already garnering strong reviews), Hyperion offer us five new titles including Schubert from Marc-Andre Hamelin and Berlioz from Lawrence Power and Andrew Manze (see ‘Disc of the Month’ below), plus we have strong releases from Sandrine Piau (Alpha), the Belcea Quartet joined by Piotr Anderszewski (also Alpha), Magdalena Kozena (Supraphon), Osmo Vanska (BIS), Boris Giltberg (Naxos) and Paul McCreesh (Signum).
    [Show full text]
  • Zimmermann Shostakovich Violin Concertos 1 & 2
    FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN SHOSTAKOVICH VIOLIN CONCERTOS 1 & 2 NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTER ALAN GILBERT NDR ELBPHILHARMONIE ORCHESTER BIS-2247 BIS-2247 booklet cover.indd 1 2016-05-16 16:23 SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906–75) Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor 31'28 Op.77 (1947–48, rev. 1955) (Sikorski) 1 I. Nocturne. Moderato 9'07 2 II. Scherzo. Allegro 6'17 3 III. Passacaglia. Andante – Cadenza – attacca – 11'05 4 IV. Burlesque. Allegro con brio – Presto 4'42 Violin Concerto No.2 in C sharp minor 29'23 Op.129 (1967) (Sikorski) 5 I. Moderato 12'36 6 II. Adagio – attacca – 9'02 7 III. Adagio – Allegro 7'37 TT: 61'41 Frank Peter Zimmermann violin NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Alan Gilbert conductor In Violin Concerto No.1, Frank Peter Zimmermann has based his performance of the solo part on the autograph manuscript (with the composer’s own metronome markings and bowing instructions), and not on the usually-heard version edited by David Oistrakh. Instrumentarium: Violin Concerto No.1: Stradivarius: ‘Lady Inchiquin 1711’ Violin Concerto No.2: Stradivarius: ‘ex Rodewalt 1713’ 2 Violin Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op.77 Both in the musical and thematic conception of its individual movements and also because of its delayed première, Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto speaks volumes about the lack of creative freedom endured by Soviet composers in the Stalin era. Initially Shostakovich composed the piece with no prospect of an actual performance: in 1948, when he finished it, he had just been placed – for the second time – on a black list because his music was perceived as too modernist, manifesting formalistic distortions, and alien to the people.
    [Show full text]