Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
Is this the oldies station?
Over the weekend, I walked past a woman about my age who was chatting on her cell phone & overheard a comment that absolutely stunned me. “But why would they pick such old music? Those songs were written before they were even born!” Admittedly, I don’t know of whom she was speaking or the occasion for which […]
McGegan’s joie de vivre
I’ve blogged once before about how some conductors convey the architecture of the music through their gestures and body language. With Nicholas McGegan, who conducted Bach, Rameau, Haydn and Mozart with the BSO this weekend, he conveys the sheer joy of music. He is like a little fireball on the podium, and if he needs […]
Monday 01/30/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11pm Conductor: Zubin Mehta Bruckner: Symphony No 8 Mozart: Symphony No. 38 Prague
Wednesday 12/21/11 Live! At The Concertgebouw
Conductor: Kees Bakels Oboist: Alexei Ogrintchouk Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Sibelius: Excerpts from Pelleas and Melisande Mozart: Oboe Concerto Berwald: Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia Singuliere
Monday 12/19/11 New York Philharmonic This Week
CONDUCTOR: Jeffrey Kahane SOLOISTS: Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Sheryl Staples, violin; Liang Wang, oboe Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe Mozart: Symphony #33 Beethoven: Piano Concerto #1
Wednesday 11/16/11 Live! At The Concertgebouw
Conductor: Michael Schonwandt Soloists: Mezzo, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Pianists; Arthur Jussen & Lucas jussen Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra Delage: Quatre Poemes Hindous Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suites
Wednesday 11/10/11 Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Richard King, horn WIDMANN: Concert Overture Con Brio MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb, K. 417 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in b, Op. 74 “Pathetique”
