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Eugene Onegin, Act III: "Polonaise" 🇦🇺
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Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 18 II. Adagio sostenuto 🤼🏻
#AbbeySimon #SaintLouisSymphonyOrchestra #LeonardSlatkin
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McTee, Mozart & Strauss at the National Concert Hall
As it was foretold, last night I went to the National Concert Hall in Dublin for the opening performance of the new season by the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, this time under the baton of veteran conductor Leonard Slatkin.
The appetiser for this concert was Timepiece by American composer Cindy Mctee. It’s a short piece, quite new to me before last night, with a slowish introduction leading into a very energetic main body of the work. This piece brought out some fine playing by the orchestra, especially the percussion section. You can read more about this intriguing and enjoyable composition in the composer’s own words here. She was in the audience last night, and came up on stage at the end of the performance to receive the plaudits.
Next we had a very familiar piece: the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with David Fray at the piano. Mozart apparently composed this in a rush to meet the deadline of its first performance, but it doesn’t seem that way. The three movements (marked Allegro, Romanza and Allegro Assai) are very different in mood: the first (which is quite long) is brooding and rather Sturmy and Drangy, while the second is much gentler; both these movements feature memorable tunes; the third is much more pyrotechnical, with a very propulsive start and some virtuosic cadenzas. I think the last was played the best. David Fray is a curious performer to watch: he sat in the same sort of chair as the members of the orchestra – one with a back – rather than the usual stool, and had a very unusual posture; he often turned round to look at the musicians behind him too. Anyway, he played very well indeed and for an encore he gave us some Back (a solo piano arrangement of Air on the G String), which was lovely.
After the wine break we came back for a performance of Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”) by Richard Strauss. I had never heard this piece in full before last night, and I have to say I didn’t like it much. There are some very nice passages in it, and there was some excellent playing by the brass and solo violin by NSOI leader Elaine Clark, but overall I found it a rather aimless reworking of some of Strauss’s other tone poems (some of which are actually very good). It’s also far too long for what it has to say.
The “Hero” of the title is of course meant to be the composer himself, which says something of the high regard in which Strauss held himself. At times the piece is tediously bombastic. The composer was 34 when he wrote this piece; about the same age that Mozart was when he died. I don’t think had he lived the latter would have written a self-indulgent piece like this crowing about his own achievements, which were far greater than those of the former.
Still, at least I can now say I’ve heard Ein Heldenleben…
P.S. For those of you wondering: no, the President of Ireland did not attend this concert.
#DavidFray #EinHeldenleben #LeonardSlatkin #MozartPianoConcertoNo20 #music #NationalSymphonyOrchestraIreland #RichardStrauss #WolfgangAmadeusMozart
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New Hollywood String Quartet Pays Homage to Legendary Original Chamber-Music Group
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Sunday, Jan 21 #LeonardSlatkin conducted the #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra in the last of his three-concert series exploring the intersection of jazz/pop and classical. Kudos to #AaronDiehl and his trio for their performance in #marylouwilliams "Zodiac Suite". The concert will be broadcast on St. Louis Public Radio & Classic 107.3 Sunday, 1/28 01:30 GMTand will be on the SLSO web site for a while after that. @classicalmusic @vromans https://kdhx.org/articles/classical/3333-symphony-review-mary-lou-willims-s-zodiac-suite-stars-in-a-jazzy-afternoon-with-the-slso
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Two concerts by the #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra this Saturday and Sunday, both with #LeonardSlatkin at the helm. Saturday night it's the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and the SLSO in a joint concert of familiar favorites. Sunday it's pianist #JeffreySiegel. Here's a twofer preview from #KDHX. Sunday concert will be broadcast on Sunday, 1/28, 01:30 GMT. @classicalmusic @vromans @classical @WConcertHall
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This Saturday, January 13, #LeonardSlatkin conducts the #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra in the second of three programs concentrating on the intersection of classical and popular music. Scott Andrews is the soloist for Stravisnki's "Ebony Concerto" in a program that includes music by Milhaud, Weill, and Gershwin. Here's my preview for #KDHX Live broadcast on Sunday 14 January, 01:30 GMT @WConcertHall @classicalmusic @vromans
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This Friday, January 12, #LeonardSlatkin conducts the #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra and violin soloist Kelly Hall-Tompkins in the first of three concerts that look at the intersection of classical and popular music. This one includes a world premiere by #jeffbeal Here's my preview for #KDHX @classicalmusic @vromans https://kdhx.org/articles/classical/3317-symphony-preview-mass-in-the-vernacular
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The second half of my two-part interview with #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra Conductor Laureate #LeonardSlatkin for #chucksculturechannel. This one concentrates on his many other activities (including his radio show on #classic107 ) @classicalmusic
@vromans https://youtu.be/Y1x8HCh9iV4?si=nK6bsSGKFxNPS6nf -
New on #chucksculturechannel part 1 of a two-part chat with #StLouisSymphonyOrchestra Conductor Laureate #LeonardSlatkin . This first one is all about the special series of concerts he's conducting in January. More information at https://slso.org @classicalmusic
@vromans https://youtu.be/Tjm3RJApcys?si=SB8GK5bizu2hvDvx
