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INTERNATIONAL CONCERT INDEX
JANUARY -JUNE 2008
Mahler, Ravel and Lieberson:
Kelley O'Connor, mezzo soprano, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor) Symphony Center,
Chicago 3.5.2008 (JLZ)
Tchaikovsky/Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff:
Vadim Gluzman, violin; San Francisco
Symphony, James Gaffigan, conductor. Davies Symphony Hall, San
Francisco, 1.5.2008 (HS)
Mozart and Schubert: Günther Herbig, cond.,
Garrick Ohlsson, piano, Seattle Symphony,
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 20.4.2008 (BJ)
and
Mendelssohn, Dvořák, and Sibelius:
Günther Herbig, cond., Xavier Phillips, cello, Seattle Symphony,
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 24.4.2008 (BJ)
Mozart, Bruch, Vaughan
Williams, Beethoven, and Brahms:
Stephen Bryant and Rachael Pearson,
violins, John Scanlon and Sue Jane Bryant, violas, Richard Treat,
cello, The Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, 25.4.2008 (BJ)
Schubert
and Debussy:
Radu Lupu
(piano). Leipzig Gewandhaus. 19.4.2008 (MB)
Bach, Webern, Berg, and Schoenberg:
Scharoun
Ensemble and guests, Barbara Hannigan
(soprano); Pierre Boulez (conductor). Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal,
Berlin. 18.4.2008 (MB)
Ireland, Vaughan Williams,
Schubert, Fauré, et al:
Bryn
Terfel, bass baritone; Malcolm Martineau,
piano. Presented by Cal Performances at Zellerbach Hall, University
of California at Berkeley, 17.4.2008 (HS)
Ars Musica 2008 Brussels :
Scelsi, Ledoux, Martin, Levinas :
Hughes
Kolp (electric guitar), Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy ,Théâtre
Marni, 15.4. 2008 (HC)
Kaleidoscope:
The Kurt Elling Trio and the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra / Ben Northey (conductor) Sydney Opera House.
14.4.2008 (SW)
Beethoven, Mahler:
Margarita Höhenrieder (piano); Sächsische
Staatskapelle Dresden; Fabio Luisi (conductor). Philharmonie am
Gasteig, Munich.
9.4.2008 (JFL)
Brahms:
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano), Davies Symphony
Hall, San Francisco. 7.4.2008 (HS)
Bossi, Franck, Howells:
Robert Costin (organ), Saint
Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York,
6.4.2008 (BH)
Bach, Durante, Mozart, Haydn, Boccherini:
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra; Sydney City
Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney 5.4.2008 (ZT)
Mahler,
Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)
:
National Symphony Orchestra,
Master Chorale of Washington / Iván Fischer (conductor)
Juliane Banse (soprano)Kennedy Center
Concert Hall, Washington DC
4.4
2008 (RRR)
Bruch and
Bruckner: Gerard Schwarz, cond.,
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall,
Seattle, 3.4.2008 (BJ)
Bach,
Beethoven, and Mussorgsky:
Fazil
Say (piano). Konzerthaus, Vienna, 3.4.2008
(MB)
Copland, Chausson, León, Bizet:
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Dame Felicity Lott (Soprano), Carnegie
Hall, New York, 1. 4.2008 (AM)
Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saëns:
Jun Märkl, cond., Horacio Gutiérrez,
piano, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 27.3.2008 (BJ)
Keys to the Future III:
Lisa Moore, Tatjana Rankovich, Joseph
Rubenstein, Yukiko Tanaka (pianists), Renee Weiler Concert Hall, New
York City, 27.3.2008 (AM)
Keys to the Future II:
Amy Briggs Dissanayake, David Friend, Stephen
Gosling and Joseph Rubenstein (pianists), Renee Weiler Concert Hall,
New York City, 26.3.2008 (BH)
Keys to the Future I:
Marina Lomazov, Blair McMillen, Tatjana
Rankovich and Joseph Rubenstein (pianists), Renee Weiler Concert
Hall, New York City, 25.3.2008 (BH)
Mozart, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky: Barry
Douglas, cond. and piano, Camerata
Ireland, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 24.3.2008 (BJ
Liszt, Strauss, and
Dvořák: Elizabeth Stoyanovich,
conductor, Jeffrey Fair, horn, Bremerton
Symphony Orchestra, Bremerton Performing Arts Center, Bremerton, WA,
22.3.2008 (BJ)
Pauline Viardot and
Friends:
Melody Moore,
soprano; Fredericka von Stade, mezzo
soprano; Vladimir Chernov, baritone; Peter Grunberg, piano; Marilyn
Horne, host and narrator; a salon presented by San Francisco
Performances at Herbst Hall, San Francisco, 22.3.2008 (HS)
Ravel, Liszt, and Bartók:
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Lang Lang (piano), Torsten
Schönfeld (percussion), Dominic Oelze (percussion).
Philharmonie, Berlin 22.3.2008 (MB)
Bach, Mass in B minor:
Gerard Schwarz, cond., Sarah Coburn,
soprano, Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano, Stanford Olsen, Tenor,
Charles Robert Austin, bass-baritone, Seattle Symphony Chorale,
Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 21.3.2008 (BJ)
Messiaen
and Bach:
Julia
Kleiter (soprano), Angelika Kirchschlager
(alto), Andreas Weller (tenor), Alfred Reiter (bass), Steven Osborne
(piano), Valérie Hartmann-Clavérie (ondes martenot). Rundfunkchor
Berlin, Simon Halsey (chorus master), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin, Ingo Metzmacher (conductor). Philharmonie, Berlin, 21.3.2008
(MB)
Brahms, Schoenberg, and Wagner:
Lang Lang
(piano), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor).
Philharmonie, Berlin, 20.3.2008 (MB)
Schubert :
Christine Schäfer (soprano); Eric
Schneider (piano). Herkulessaal, Munich, 19.3.
2008 (JFL)
'Sublime', Elgar, Vaughan Williams and others:
Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti
(Artistic Director/Lead Violin), Katie Noonan (Voice),
Cameron Deyell (Electric Guitar,
Angel Place Recital Hall, Sydney, 15.3.2008 (SW)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov,
and Strauss: Gerard
Schwarz, cond., James Ehnes, violin, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya
Hall, Seattle, 15.3.2008 (BJ)
Mahler : Symphony
No 8 :
Soloists,
Massed Choirs and Orchestras, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
Palais Omnisports de Paris, Bercy, France, 6.3.2008 (AO)
Mendelssohn, Gabriela
Lena Frank, Beethoven:
Brentano String Quartet, presented by San Francisco Performances,
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, 5.3.2008 (HS)
Either/Or plays Helmut
Lachenmann: Either/Or,
Goethe Institut, New York City, 10. 3.
2008 (BH)
Hartke, Crumb, and Golijov:
Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Orquesta Los
Pelegrinos, Benaroya Hall,
Seattle, 29.2.2008 (BJ)
Dvorak,
Tubin,
Nielsen: Johannes
Moser (cello), Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor), Philharmonie at the Gasteig,
Munich 29.02.2008 (JFL)
Spotlight on Frederic Rzewski:
Lisa
Moore
(piano), Greenwich House Music School
New York City, 28.2.2008 (AM)
Hartke, Crumb, Golijov:
Members of
eighth blackbird; Orquestra Los Pelegrinos; Dawn Upshaw, soprano.
Presented by Cal Performances, Zellberbach Hall, Berkeley,
California, 1.3.2008 (HS)
Mozart, C.P.E. Bach, and Beethoven: Gerard
Schwarz, cond., Scott Goff, flute, Seattle
Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 28.2.2008 (BJ)
Berio, Berlioz, Stravinsky:
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Susan Graham
(mezzo-soprano), Pierre Boulez (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York,
26.2.2008 (BH)
Pintscher, Bartók, Debussy:
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Pierre Boulez (conductor),
Carnegie Hall, New York, 25.2.2008 (BH)
Brescianello, Rosano,
Handel, Heinichen, Porpora:
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer
Artistic Director with guest countertenor Andreas Scholl; Sydney
Recital Hall, Sydney, 23.2.2007 (ZT)
Webern,
Mozart, Berg, R. Strauss: Alfred
Brendel (piano), Deborah Voigt (soprano), The MET Orchestra,
James Levine (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York 17.2.2008 (BH)
Copland, Barber, Liszt, Bizet:
Arnaldo Cohen (pianist),
Oregon Symphony / Carlos Kalmar (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall, Portland 17.2.2008 (JB)
Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky: Vladimir Jurowski, cond.,
Stephen Hough, piano, Russian National
Orchestra, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 17.2.2008 (BJ)
Galina
Ustvolskaya—Hidden Genius:
Continuum,
Merkin Concert Hall, New York, 16.2.2008 (BH)
Wagner, Jones, and Dvořák:
Gerard Schwarz, cond., John
Cerminaro, horn, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 16.2.2008
(BJ)
Messiaen
Turangalîla-symphonie:
Nicolas Hodges
(piano), Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Saint Louis Symphony
Orchestra, David Robertson (conductor and moderator), Carnegie Hall,
New York, 15.2.2008 (BH)
Schubert, Brahms:
Stephen Hough, piano;
Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, conductor. Davies
Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 14.2.2008 (HS)
Bach :
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano).
Herkulessaal, Munich, 12.2. 2008 (JFL)
Cecilia Bartoli's Maria Malibrán Concert:
Cecilia
Bartoli (Mezzo soprano) Basel
Kammerorchester/ Julia Schröder (Conductor) Auditorio
de Valladolid. 12. 2.2008. (JMI)
Susan
Graham in Madrid: Teatro Real's
14th Lieder Series. Gounod, Saint Saens, Paladilhe and
others. Susan Graham (mezzosoprano) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
11.2.2008.
(JMI)
Ligeti,
Liszt, Scriabin, Bartók, Ravel: Yuja
Wang (piano) Presented by San Francisco
Performances at Herbst Hall, San Francisco, 10.2.2008 (HS)
Varèse, Herbert, and Rachmaninoff: Michael Stern,
cond., Lynn Harrell, cello, Seattle
Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 8.2.2008 (BJ)
R. Strauss, Mahler:
Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor), Carnegie Hall,
New York, 6.2.2008 (BH)
Ketting, Prokofiev, Brahms:
Yefim Bronfman
(piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor),
Carnegie Hall, New York, 5.2.2008 (BH)
Debussy, Berlioz:
Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor), Carnegie Hall,
New York, 4.2.2008 (BH)
Adams, Beethoven, Schumann:
Kirill Gerstein (pianist), Oregon Symphony
/ Gregory Vajda (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
3.2.2008 (JB)
"1938":
American Modern Ensemble, Robert
Paterson (conductor), Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, 3.2.2008
(BH)
Berio,
Berlioz, and Stravinsky:
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor) Symphony Center,
Chicago 2.2.2008 (JLZ)
Adés,
Haydn:
Munich Philharmonic, Markus Stenz (conductor),
Philharmonie at the Gasteig, Munich 30. 1.2008 (JFL)
Brahms,
Prokofiev and R. Strauss:
Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) / Orfeón
Pamplonés (choir) / Basque National Orchestra / Cristian Mandeal
(conductor) Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao, Spain 30.1.2008. (ED)
Debussy, Schoenberg, and Brahms: Ingo Metzmacher,
cond., Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 31.1.2008 (BJ)
Bach and Rachmaninoff: Jeremy
Denk and Adam Neiman, pianos, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital
Hall, Benaroya Hall, Seattle 26.1.2008 (BJ)
Schumann and Bruckner:
Radu Lupu (piano),
New York Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall,
New York, 26.1.2008 (BH)
The
Baltimore
Consort in
Fort Worth:
First Presbyterian Church,
Fort Worth,
Texas. 26.1.2008 (KS)
Ravel, De Falla, Debussy : Nicholas Angelich
(piano), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
(conductor),De Doelen Concert Hall, Rotterdam, 26.1.2008 (BvW)
Berio and Brahms:
Synergy Vocals, Steven Stucky (host), New
York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New
York, 25.1.2008 (BH)
Mozart,
Dorman,
Ravel: Martin Grubinger
(percussion), Munich Philharmonic, Juraj Valcuha (conductor),
Philharmonie at the Gasteig, Munich 24.1.2008 (JFL
Messiaen, Mahler:
San Francisco
Symphony, Myung-Whun Chung, conductor,
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 24.1.2008 (HS)
Schubert: Ian Bostridge, tenor,
Julius Drake, piano, Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, Portland,
Oregon, 24.1.2008 (BJ)
Walton, Bach, Rodrigo, and Sarasate: Gil Shaham,
violin, Akira Eguchi, piano, Benaroya Hall,
Seattle, 22.1.2008 (BJ)
Gluck, Rossini, Bizet:
Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo -soprano)
National Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian Radio.
Conductor: Rossen Milanov, The Concert Hall, Valladolid, Spain
22.1.2008 (JMI)
Beethoven, Shostakovich:
Vadim Repin (soloist), West German
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor) Philharmonie at
the Gasteig, Munich 21.1.2008 (JFL)
MacMillan, Mendelssohn:
Sharin Apostolou (soprano), Amy Jo
Arrington (soprano), Ted deChatelet
(actor),
Maureen Porter (Actor),
Oregon Symphony / Carlos Kalmar (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall, Portland 20.1.2008 (JB)
Brahms, Liszt and Scriabin:
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), New York
Philharmonic, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New
York, 19.1.2008 (BH)
Mozart and Haydn: Jaime Laredo, cond./violin,
Elisa Barston, violin, Seattle Symphony,
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 19.1.2008 (BJ)
From Bruch to Piazzolla :
Renato Ripo, cello and Péter
Nagy, piano,
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, January 16.1. 2008 (BM)
Bartók, Debussy, Chopin,
Dukas:
Ingrid Fliter (piano), Oregon Symphony /
Gregory Vajda (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
13. 1.2008 (JB)
Mustafa Erdogan, Mevlana Oratorio:
Ankara State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Concert Master: Tayfun
Bozok, 11.1.2008 (BM)
Handel, A. Marcello, J.C. Bach, and Rameau: Gary
Thor Wedow, cond, Ben Hausmann, oboe, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya
Hall, Seattle, 11.1.2008 (BJ)
Bach and Beethoven: Seattle Symphony,
Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Jessica Jones,
soprano, Meredith Arwady, mezzo-soprano, Stephen Rumph (Bach) and
Richard Cox (Beethoven), tenors, Clayton Brainerd, bass-baritone,
Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle,
29.12.2007 (BJ)
and
Johann Strauss, Jr., Mozart, and Beethoven:
Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conductor, Stewart Goodyear,
piano, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 5.1.2008 (BJ)
The Crossing:
Mark Anderson (organ), Donald Nally
(conductor), The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 21.12.2007 (BH)
Bach,
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232:
Soloists, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio
Chorus, Ton Koopman (conductor), Michael Gläser (choir)
Herkulessaal, Munich 19.12.2007 (JFL)
Weill / Kaiser, Der
Silbersee:
(Concert Performance) Soloists.
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin Rundfunkchor Berlin, Ingo
Metzmacher (conductor) Philharmonie, Berlin 16.12. 2007 (MB)
Wagner, Elgar, Nielsen:
Franz Bartolomey (Violincello), Wiener
Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Großer Musikvereinssaal, Vienna,
16.12.2007 (MBr)
'Inside the Music':
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4:
Andrey Boreyko (conductor), Gerard McBurney
(narrator and creative director), F. Murray Abraham (actor), New
York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, 14.12.2007 (BH)
Handel, Messiah:
Christian Knapp, conductor, Celena
Shafer, soprano, Charlotte Hellekant, mezzo-soprano, David Ossenfort,
tenor, Harold Wilson, bass, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle
Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 13.12. 2007
Gabrieli, Britten, MacMillan:
Munich Philharmonic, James MacMillan (conductor), Daniel Hope
(violin), Gasteig, Munich 12.12.2007 (JFL)
Handel, Messiah:
Elizabeth Stoyanovich, conductor, Jessica Robins Milanese, soprano,
Kathryn Weld, mezzo-soprano, Stephen Wall, tenor, Barry Johnson,
baritone, Bremerton Symphony Concert Chorale, Bremerton Symphony
Orchestra, Bremerton Performing Arts Center, Bremerton, WA, 15.12.
2007 (BJ)
Stravinsky, Haydn
and Hindemith:
Staatskapelle Berlin, Pinchas
Zukerman (violin, viola, conductor) Philharmonie, Berlin 11.12. 2007
(MB)
Bach, Schumann, Chihara,
Theofanidis:
Christian Zacharias (piano), Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, 8.12.2007 (BH)
Nino Rota, Franck:
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Gasteig, Munich 6.12.2007 (JFL)
Stravinsky, Borodin:
Soloists, Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater,
Valery Gergiev (conductor), Kirov Orchestra, Carnegie Hall,
4.12.2007 (BH)
Berlioz, Dutilleux,
Duparc, Debussy:
Renée Fleming (soprano), James
Levine (conductor), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall
3.12.2007 (BH)
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) :
(concert performance) Soloists, Chorus of
the Mariinsky Theater, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Kirov Orchestra,
Carnegie Hall, 2.12.2007 (BH)
Haydn, Bartok, Schumann:
Takacs
Quartet, Joyce Yang, piano; presented by Cal Performances at Hertz
Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 2.12.2007 (HS)
Glinka, Stravinsky:
Soloists, Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater,
Valery Gergiev (conductor), Kirov Orchestra, Carnegie Hall,
1.12.2007 (BH)
