The Six Brandenburg Concertos is a gorgeously lyrical piece that kept those concertos in my head humming and cheerfully tumbling days after I had seen the work.
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No flashy concertos here: The orchestra is the star. Jan.
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Most concertos have combative passages between the soloist and orchestra.
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But the heavy lifting was Mozart, the Violin Concertos Nos.
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The great Yuja Wang warms up with piano concertos on demand!
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Piotr Anderszewski joins this Swiss ensemble for Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos.
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Here she directs the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Piano Concertos Nos.
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Hopefully it won't take another marathon to hear the overlooked, underrated concertos.
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Few concertos have ever been more immaculately tailored to their first interpreter.
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We are used to watching him play challenging concertos and études effortlessly.
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The concertos were performed along with works by composers variously influenced by Ligeti.
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Organ concertos have been written by composers including Nico Muhly and Christopher Rouse.
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Pairing Bruckner's symphonies with concertos by his Austrian forebear Mozart makes musical sense.
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Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos have long been staples of the repertory.
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For her part, Ms. De Keersmaeker has been listening to "Brandenburg Concertos" for decades.
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MOZART: VIOLIN CONCERTOS Isabelle Faust, violin; Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini, conductor (Harmonia Mundi).
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"With piano concertos, we know beforehand what we are going to get," she said.
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Percussion concertos tend to sound like orchestra pieces with lots of percussion, Mr. Corigliano said.
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With the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, he performed all 27 Mozart concertos, conducting from the keyboard.
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"The Six Brandenburg Concertos" is coming to the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan on Oct. 19923.
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He could focus instead on "pure" instrumental music, like the "Brandenburg" Concertos, today's holiday-season standbys.
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At the same time she was listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and she didn't forget them.
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In Chopin's day, every emerging pianist was expected to show himself off in his own concertos.
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That release, on Deutsche Grammophon, completes Mr. Trifonov's two-album survey of the four Rachmaninoff concertos.
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HAYDN, LIGETI: CONCERTOS AND CAPRICCIOS Shai Wosner, piano; Danish National Symphony Orchestra; Nicholas Collon, conductor (Onyx).
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His instrumental compositions include string quartets; 10 symphonies, the last completed in 2013, when Mr. Davies was already ill with leukemia; the Strathclyde Concertos, a cycle of 20053 concertos for various solo instruments — the violin concerto was recorded by Isaac Stern — and works for solo piano.
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In the concertos, too, there were nothing blaring or brusque, no sense of the Classical as curt.
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The maestro's two piano concertos have been called many things including, rather unkindly, bad pieces for orchestra.
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They plan to continue commissioning new repertoire, particularly triple concertos, from composers who reflect their artistic taste.
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Two significant recent concertos dismantle the duality of self and community that has long governed the form.
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In "Brandenburg Concertos," Ms. De Keersmaeker starts out simply with the most human of movements: a walk.
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He also recorded Handel's Organ Concertos with Joshua Rifkin and Saint-Saëns and Poulenc with Charles Dutoit.
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Chopin's two piano concertos have long been repertory staples, and Mr. Lisiecki has recorded them both magnificently.
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The centerpieces are piano concertos: two by Haydn and Ligeti's uproarious, rhythmically knotty contribution to the genre.
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Why perform one or two of Prokofiev piano concertos when you can present all five at once?
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His recordings of the complete Carl Nielsen symphonies and concertos, taken from live Philharmonic performances, are matchless.
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At the core of the concert series will be Tchaikovsky's piano concertos and his "Manfred" and "Pathétique" symphonies.
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In the early 20th century, concertos were sometimes performed in arrangements for piano and soloist, a rarity now.
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Within this small boy, so modest in his manner, there were symphonies unwritten, suites and concertos and oratorios.
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At 49, Alan Gilbert, who conducted the concertos, may have been a little older than the other participants.
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Many of the slow movements of his piano concertos can seem like instrumental evocations of an opera aria.
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DAVID ALLEN BEACH, CHAMINADE, HOWELL: Piano Concertos Danny Driver, piano; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Rebecca Miller, conductor (Hyperion).
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A few passages are so obviously indebted to famous Romantic concertos that one suspects Price of putting us on.
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The idea is not to replace all performances of the "New World" with renditions of Price's symphonies and concertos.
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Those who relish the group's fiery recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos will thrill to a performance of the Fourth.
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Accompanying David Fray in a pair of Mozart piano concertos (Erato), the Philharmonia Orchestra sounds worryingly out of breath.
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I remember when he became consumed with Bach's harpsichord concertos, assembling a library of every one he could find.
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Bach time in Central Park in this free concert, with four of that composer's famous Brandenburg Concertos on offer.
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It's not often that Prokofiev fans have a chance to hear all five of his Piano Concertos in one evening.
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The Six Brandenburg Concertos continues at the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) through October 7.
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His own output included nine operas, eight symphonies and 12 instrumental concertos, as well as chamber music and choral works.
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On Friday and Saturday, the spirited pianist Jeffrey Kahane does double duty as conductor and soloist in three concertos — Nos.
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The Belgian post-minimalist Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker takes on Bach's six "Brandenburg" Concertos (Park Avenue Armory, Oct. 1-7).
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But apparently, even more brawn is required if one is to blanket every deck of one's superyacht in Bach concertos.
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As reliably as Christmas comes around, so the Chamber Music Society plays Bach's Brandenburg Concertos in the middle of December.
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An accomplished pianist and violinist, she is also a composer, having written concertos for piano and violin and an opera.
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A concentration on concertos includes new contributions to the genre by Anna Clyne, Jonathan Leshnoff, Alan Fletcher and Matthew Ricketts.
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The season will conclude on May 20 with an evening of concertos by five composers including Mozart, Bach and Janacek.
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" Bernstein's output with the Vienna Philharmonic is vast, but if you want a starting point, it's "Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos.
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They handled everything from punk to folk, as well as chamber music and full orchestral concertos without much of a hitch.
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On Friday the mood was festive for a program offering a look at what's going on with American concertos these days.
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Accepting the idea that the "Brandenburg" Concertos harbor social and religious designs needn't involve downplaying the magnificence of Bach's artistic gifts.
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The big news this week was the premieres — both on Thursday — of new piano concertos by Thomas Adès and John Adams.
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Her vast repertory includes concertos by Elliott Carter and Alfred Schnittke, as well as the Romantic staples by Mendelssohn and Brahms.
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More than 30 years later, she has unveiled "The Six Brandenburg Concertos," for 16 members of her Brussels-based company, Rosas.
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Concertos reveal another, bolder aspect of an artist's profile: This genre is a kind of combat, a David-versus-Goliath match.
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Her most recent, self-recommending recordings of selected piano concertos on Decca saw her leading the Cleveland Orchestra from the keyboard.
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Intended to show the influence of the master's pioneering concertos for multiple instruments, it also offered concerti grossi by Corelli and Handel.
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Of Tuesday's concertos, the most overtly seductive was Dai Fujikura's Cello Concerto, written for Katinka Kleijn, a player of formidable expressive gifts.
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Everyone gets up and moves around the room while cartoon musicians on the screen play (what else?) Bach concertos at varying tempos.
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Jeannette Sorrell directs Cleveland's leading period-instrument ensemble in music by Telemann, Vivaldi, Handel and Bach, including two of the "Brandenburg" Concertos.
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The harpsichordist de nos jours Mahan Esfahani is the soloist in two relatively recent concertos, by Manuel de Falla and Bohuslav Martinu.
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Instead, bookended by Bach's two best-known violin concertos — in A minor and E — the concert featured two transcriptions by Mr. Dantone.
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The late Sir Neville Marriner conducted, and Wang, with just a few weeks' notice, took on the planned Mendelssohn and Mozart concertos.
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She rose to fame with an astonishing series of Mozart albums — first the sonatas, then the concertos — beginning in the early 1980s.
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Alert yet dreamy, freely bending the tempo throughout, Ms. Uchida was most fascinating in the way she shifted her approach between the concertos.
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Today, I still know only a fraction of the nearly 500 pieces of Schütz's that survive: motets, madrigals, sacred concertos, oratorios and more.
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ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER/ROSAS The Belgian choreographer brings "The Six Brandenburg Concertos" to the Park Avenue Armory's grand Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
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When we constrict concertos to being things that exist in certain parts of our lives, we miss out on the humanity of music.
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Sunday's concert contrasts the Ninth, colored by death, with one of Mozart's sunniest piano concertos, No. 23 in A.212-247-7800, carnegiehall.
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This week alone, two piano concertos by two eminent composers, Thomas Adès and John Adams, will have their premieres on the same evening.
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On Hoy, and while he was a resident composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he wrote ten "Strathclyde Concertos", ideal to take into schools.
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Conducting three concertos from the keyboard, Mr. Kahane seemed less the star soloist than the empowering leader of a collaboration among gifted, eager artists.
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Now comes "The Six Brandenburg Concertos," a striking setting by the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, played by the Baroque ensemble B'Rock (through Sunday).
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On Saturday evening, in a program of ballets set to violin concertos, the principal dancer Rebecca Krohn gave her final performance with the company.
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Soon the piano plays an arching theme in right-hand octaves, like some passing nod to those soaring-melody moments of Romantic piano concertos.
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Though his repertory as a pianist is extensive, he is especially known for Mozart, having performed all the sonatas and concertos in various marathons.
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Many percussion concertos devolve into a numbing barrage; the most striking moment here was one of melancholy lyricism, as vibraphone blended with solo cello.
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He has always been able to play the war-horse concertos and sonatas with the best of them, but that has never been enough.
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TRAVEL A 36 Hours column last Sunday, about Bergen, Norway, referred incorrectly to the number of classical concertos that the composer Edvard Grieg completed.
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At Carnegie, she is scheduled for a performance of Mozart concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra next March, and of solo Beethoven in April.
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The cycle will be performed in January in nine concerts, several of which will also feature Mr. Barenboim conducting Mozart piano concertos from the keyboard.
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Watching him whip through Mozart concertos by memory, his playing so expressive it made my grandmas cry, I'd feel a sharp envy in my fingers.
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Many concertos draw a contrast between bravura and sorrowful moods; here the division is stark enough that it suggests the musical equivalent of manic depression.
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Then there was "Two x Four," a project about the relationship between teacher and student, with new double concertos by Anna Clyne and David Ludwig.
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The Chamber Music Society has long given performances of Bach's "Brandenburg" Concertos during the holiday season, and now that's expanded into a larger Baroque project.
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The superb pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who has played and recorded the Rachmaninoff concertos to acclaim, has made a special cause of this curious Fourth.
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With her latest dance, she has shed new light on the "Brandenburgs"; this is a reading of the revolutionary concertos as joyous, youthful and borderline improvisatory.
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It was the first time I'd ever seen him struggle, and the moment I realized he was capable of much more than showy war horse concertos.
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But it's hard to make the symphony's originality stand out when you group it with one of Mozart's most frequently-played concertos and a Tchaikovsky staple.
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The show, created by Rob Evan, will fuse '80s rock songs with classical arias and concertos at the Broadway Theater from March 20 to April 29.
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The holiday season has come to mean Bach's "Brandenburg" Concertos for the Chamber Music Society, and it gives three performances of the complete set this year.
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Mr. Husa created works in most of the standard concert-music forms apart from opera, including two symphonies, several concertos, four string quartets and three ballets.
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He started off with the successful alternative rock band The Ben Folds Five but later segued into country, a cappella, piano concertos and full symphony orchestras.
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The songs include a Peruvian wedding song, a Pygmy girls' initiation song, a movement from one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry.
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In recent years, he has been emphasizing more modern fare: the brooding concertos of Britten and Shostakovich; the avant-virtuoso works of György Ligeti and Thomas Adès .
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Contemporary composers who produce concertos—there is a steady demand for them, always threatening to become a glut—must contend with the genre's history of hoary theatrics.
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Those today who view religion negatively sometimes go even further and view Bach's church cantatas as essentially instrumental concertos, with the religious texts more or less extraneous.
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Mr. Greilsammer, who also plays standard fare like the complete Mozart piano concertos and sonatas splendidly, is hardly asserting that all recital programs should follow this model.
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St. Thomas's new Miller-Scott organ, named in part after the former director of music John Scott, is heard here in two concertos, by Poulenc and Barber.
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Sixteen dancers from different generations of Ms. De Keersmaeker's company, Rosas, will perform to the concertos, played live by the baroque ensemble B'Rock, led by Amandine Beyer.
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Thousands of pages of manuscripts, including music from baroque operas to concertos for solo instruments, some of which had been copied as late as 2005, had survived.
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Mr. Bronfman has made news in recent years at the Philharmonic in the premieres of daunting concertos written for him by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Magnus Lindberg.
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And while Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos are staples of the repertory, his Fourth Concerto tends to turn up only when an orchestra is surveying all four.
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By coincidence, new piano concertos by two of the most important composers of our time had their premieres: Thomas Adès's in Boston and John Adams's in Los Angeles.
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Christmastime is associated with Baroque music — "Messiah," the "Brandenburg" Concertos — and the orchestra was happy to oblige, with a program of Handel and Rameau at David Geffen Hall.
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He also introduced dozens of pieces, including major works and concertos, written for him by composers like Toru Takemitsu, Charles Wuorinen and, especially, his childhood friend Peter Lieberson.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI Mr. Trifonov has justly rocketed to New York omnipresence, and has become a fixture at the Philharmonic, including a memorable traversal of Rachmaninoff's concertos in 2015.
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So when she played violinist Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart, she studied the violin for months, even learning to play one of Bach's concertos for the role.
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That program explores the (anachronistic?) notion of a downtown scene presided over by John Zorn, and three successive tributes to Ligeti's brilliant concertos for piano, cello and violin, respectively.
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The piano takes center stage at the Mostly Mozart Festival, when two pianists known for their probing musicianship join the festival orchestra in some of Mozart's most beloved concertos.
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Viktoria Mullova plays the E and A minor concertos, plus arrangements of the Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Continuo and the Harpsichord Concerto in E. At 7:30 p.m.
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Here and elsewhere, Ms. De Keersmaeker's men — 12 in total — dominated the production, yet seldom let go of their inhibitions, which seemed true of "Brandenburg Concertos" as a whole.
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I love the live recordings of Beethoven's Third, Fourth and Fifth ("Emperor") Piano Concertos that Bernstein, then 71, made with the Vienna Philharmonic and the pianist Krystian Zimerman, 32.
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After the concerts, as Mr. Zimerman told me in a 1997 interview, he sat down with Bernstein to find dates to record the first two Beethoven concertos, as well.
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Mr. Badura-Skoda also did scholarly work with his wife, Eva Badura-Skoda, including jointly writing a well-received book, "Interpreting Mozart at the Keyboard," and editing Mozart concertos.
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Today we can love his symphonies, concertos and operas while still admiring "The Sleeping Beauty" as the greatest of all ballet scores, the most fragrantly detailed and powerfully planned.
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Take her Carnegie concert in March with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, in a program of two Mozart concertos (the 19th and moody 20th) that she conducted from the piano.
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But Wednesday's marathon survey of Prokofiev's concertos, which lasted some three hours with two intermissions, proved fascinating, in part because at least two of these works are hardly ever performed.
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It was also rewarding to hear these concertos performed by a conductor and orchestra so immersed in Prokofiev's operas and ballets, core works at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.
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The program closer, "Method," set to two movements of Bach Brandenburg concertos in a New Zealand Guitar Quartet arrangement, resembles Paul Taylor's classic Bach romp, "Esplanade," but on fast-forward.
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Firsts like these are the lifeblood of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), which performed "Cloud Intimacy" as part of a program of five brand-new concertos written for its members.
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Of all five concertos, this was the work that most directly referred to the festival as it beamed the formal symmetry and textural clarity of Mozart into the 21st century.
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The pauses between concertos didn't help: Snippets of silent dancing attempted to fill in the space during transitions, but they were too faint and fleeting to keep the momentum going.
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But historically informed interpretation suggests the opposite: Bach's instrumental concertos, including the "Brandenburgs," are essentially church cantatas with implicit (and therefore harder-to-read) "texts" that do have real meaning.
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In April he plays two Chopin programs with the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, each dominated by one of Chopin's two concertos, but in unusual arrangements for piano and chamber ensemble.
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Ms. Uchida, much admired as a Mozart interpreter, also performed Mozart concertos earlier this month at Carnegie with the Cleveland Orchestra and is offering master classes this week for young pianists.
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But as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker showed with her new "The Six Brandenburg Concertos," her fifth work set to Bach, you have to be fearless enough to ride along with it.
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Van Cliburn, a lanky American pianist, played the great concertos of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky in a lush romantic style, proving that America could compete with Russia culturally as well as militarily.
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This mercurial, formidable 25-minute piece is thought by some to be overly impetuous and episodic: It can come across in performance like outtakes from recording sessions of the Rachmaninoff concertos.
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He sustained the filigree beauty of Chopin's two piano concertos with cool authority; listening to a blind recording, some judged the pianist to be a performer at the peak of his powers.
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Mr. Campbell's concept for Ligeti Forward was centered on performances of this composer's pathbreaking concertos for piano, cello and violin, featuring the pianist Conor Hanick, Mr. Campbell and the violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
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The third DVD is Mr. Berger's "Mission Mozart" documentary, detailing the making of one of the CDs, with Lang Lang joining Mr. Harnoncourt and the Vienna Philharmonic in the Piano Concertos Nos.
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Of course, that hasn't stopped Carnegie from bringing Beethoven back to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, with about a fifth of its season devoted to the sonatas, quartets and concertos.
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Mr. Previn, who died on Thursday at 89, made a mark on Broadway and in Hollywood, on the classical concert stage and in the jazz club, in pop songs and violin concertos.
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The violinist Leonidas Kavakos will be the artist in residence, playing concertos by Bach, Ms. Auerbach and Brahms; giving a recital with the pianist Yuja Wang; and appearing in a Young People's Concert.
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That unity is impressive enough with a conductor — in this case, the redoubtable Mitsuko Uchida, who has collaborated with the Cleveland players on Mozart for years and led two concertos from the piano.
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Piano remained the deepest part of his multi-layered career, with recordings of the Mozart and Ravel concertos as well as chamber works by Brahms, Prokofiev, Gershwin and Barber, to name a few.
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That's peculiar, given his prominence in Europe, his prolific, pioneering output — eight titanic symphonies and an array of operas, concertos and more — and the ever-increasing prominence of Scandinavian musicians within the field.
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The violist-composer Brett Dean is tackling Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto for Mr. Biss and the sixth of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra's "new" Brandenburg Concertos (an idea the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra got to first).
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The complete "Brandenburg" Concertos are on offer, as ever, with an array of players that includes the violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the cellist Nicholas Canellakis and the New York Philharmonic's flautist, Robert Langevin.
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Although I've obsessed over her debut recital and her breathtaking concertos with Claudio Abbado, I often find myself returning to her cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas recorded with Gidon Kremer in the 22012s.
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Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others.
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So it's sort of like a smartwatch for your clavicle, in addition to being a way to impress everyone on public transit with your ability to emanate club bangers or concertos from your neckline.
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The cellist Christophe Coin joined the orchestra in two concertos, in D minor (RV 407) and B minor (RV 424), that showcased his crisp rhythmic command and the discreet auburn glow of his tone.
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This splendid period-instrument band, conducted from the harpsichord by Maxim Emelyanychev, plays pieces by Richter, Durante, Corelli and Hasse, and is joined by Edgar Moreau for cello concertos by Vivaldi, Platti and Boccherini.
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On Tuesday, "Dilly Dilly" was sandwiched between two of his golden oldies, "Mercuric Tidings" (1982, to three movements from Schubert's first two symphonies) and "Esplanade" (1975, to five movements from two Bach violin concertos).
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This book is the first of an anticipated four novels in a seasonal cycle, in the manner of Vivaldi's violin concertos or George Winston's Schroeder-like piano albums, and clearly it was written quickly.
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Ms. Uchida performed the Mozart concertos with this superb ensemble while artist in residence there from 2002 to 2007, and their continuing recording collaboration has produced several excellent Mozart discs on the Decca Classics label.
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The JACK Quartet plays at the 92nd Street Y. An ensemble of Lucerne Festival alumni will play three programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art centered on concertos by Ligeti and tracing that composer's influence.
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Since then he has taken an unusually eclectic path, recording the concertos and sonatas of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Fauré and Walton on the one hand, while premiering works by cutting-edge contemporary composers on the other.
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Among the pieces found were her two violin concertos, the first recording of which has been released this month by Albany Records, with Er-Gene Kahng as soloist and Ryan Cockerham conducting the Janacek Philharmonic.
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On March 73, she brings a pair of complementary Mozart concertos to Carnegie Hall: the bucolic and graceful No. 19 and the minor-key No. 20, whose stormy grandeur appealed to subsequent generations of romantics.
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Setting to movement the six lively baroque gems known as the "Brandenburg" Concertos, composed by Bach in the early 18th century, is an ambitious task but one well suited to this highly regarded Belgian choreographer.
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Meanwhile, by performing and recording the forgotten concertos of Johann Nepomuk Hummel (overshadowed in life by Mozart and Beethoven) and of Franz Xaver Scharwenka (overshadowed by Tchaikovsky), he has induced other pianists to take them up.
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This bulky box, weighing about 20 pounds, includes 240 hours of old and new recordings of every known Mozart score: operas, symphonies, concertos, even Mozart arrangements of Handel and Bach, performed by some 600 eminent artists.
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For the finals they must offer two concertos, with one from before the Romantic era — which means they cannot rely on churning out the standard virtuoso repertoire of Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Grieg that often wins competitions.
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Mr. Dudamel, at 36 one of the few maestros recognizable to the broader public, wrapped up the season leading the piano virtuoso Yuja Wang in a series of high-intensity performances of Bartok's three piano concertos.
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Aside from being essential to music (yes, there's a reason rests are included in everything from Vivaldi concertos to Justin Bieber songs), many popular films have opted for more muted sequences to prompt an unexpected emotional response.
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In some Morris choreography — the two concertos here are good examples — we're left with a strange self-contradiction: Now the dancers look singularly spontaneous and free, now (often only moments later) they feel like Mr. Morris's marionettes.
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As soloist, he is featured in concertos by Bach and Schumann, but before that he takes the rostrum for two less frequently heard pieces: Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra and Haydn's Symphony No. 80.212-875-5656, nyphil.
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A later recording of Bach concertos further cemented her reputation as an artist fully at home in the Baroque repertory, capable of combining the adventurous spirit of the early-music scene with a brilliant, often glamorous sound.
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In a letter to the famous photographer and gallerist in advance of her show, she sent the titles of the works as if they were a concert program of Western Classical music, with overtures, sonatas and concertos.
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That means the concertos of Francis Poulenc, Manuel de Falla and more, plus solo and chamber pieces like the violin-and-harpsichord works written by Darius Milhaud and Walter Piston for Alexander Schneider and Mr. Kirkpatrick in 1945.
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A violin extravaganza from this early-music orchestra, one that features the ensemble's four concert masters — Mayumi Hirasaki, Jésus Merino Ruiz, Shunske Sato and Evgeny Sviridov — take the spotlight in concertos by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Locatelli and Geminiani.
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To acknowledge his 90th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon in 2017 released a 20-CD box set, "The Paul Badura-Skoda Edition," which includes many of his early Westminster recordings, among them Beethoven's five piano concertos conducted by Hermann Scherchen.
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Piano Concertos No. 17 in G and No. 24 in C Minor; Benjamin Hochman, pianist and conductor; English Chamber Orchestra (Avie) Mr. Hochman, whose career as a pianist has been thriving, took time off recently to study conducting.
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For years, with intrepid determination, Mr. Lewis has been on a personal exploration of the central works of the Classical period, performing and recording Beethoven's complete sonatas and concertos, as well as major works of Schubert, Haydn and Mozart.
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These concertos present enormous difficulties, but it's safe to say that the dazzling pianist Conor Hanick, the dynamic young cellist Jay Campbell (who organized this trio of concerts) and the formidable violinist Pekka Kuusisto should dispatch the challenges commandingly.
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SCIARRINO PIANO CONCERTO In addition to writing a piece for Barbara Hannigan, Mr. Sciarrino — the master of anxious near-silence — is the latest of the five composers from whom the pianist Jonathan Biss has commissioned concertos based on Beethoven's.
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SETH COLTER WALLS at 227 minutes 22002 seconds Perusing listings for the coming New York concert season, it's a little deflating to see both visiting orchestras and our own Philharmonic presenting many programs dominated by familiar symphonies and concertos.
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Nor did I often encounter Madame, although I did spot her on many mornings, seated at the head of an empty dining table, a Chinese cast iron teapot at her hands, the thrum of Tchaikovsky concertos muffled by old, lace drapes.
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You should check out the technical skills of the brilliant soloists who will be featured in performances of Gyorgy Ligeti's daunting concertos for piano, cello and violin on, respectively, June 3, 4 and 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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LES ARTS FLORISSANTS This pre-eminent Baroque ensemble is joined at Alice Tully Hall by the harpist Xavier de Maistre (Diana Damrau's recital accompanist in December) for little-heard concertos in a program devoted to Marie Antoinette, a harp amateur.
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The evening continued with the pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane performing three Mozart concertos with the festival orchestra at David Geffen Hall; it concluded with a late-night recital at the intimate Kaplan Penthouse by the thoughtful Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan.
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"Banister," which will have its New York premiere after the Beethoven concerto, is the first installment of Mr. Biss's Beethoven/5 project, in which each of five composers produces a companion piece to one of the five Beethoven piano concertos.
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A concert with the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Dover Quartet follows in January, as do concertos with expert orchestras: the Royal Concertgebouw (Bruch's First) and Philadelphia (the New York premiere of a work by Michel van der Aa). Dec.
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In December, she will make her debut at Carnegie Hall, where she will play the solo violin and piano in her two concertos, while the orchestra will play selections from her opera and her most recent work, a Viennese waltz.
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But although his aristocratic employers, had they known about it, might have disapproved of his formally dedicating any of "their" music to someone else, it hardly seems likely that in 1721 Bach could have drawn upon an untapped hoard of concertos.
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WILLIAM ROBIN AT 18 minutes 52 seconds Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok.
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The Chamber Music Society rounds out its season with a focus on small-scale concertos, including works by Leclair, Bach and Mozart, as well as Janacek's Concertino and an almost-contemporary work, Steven Mackey's "Micro-Concerto" for solo percussion and quintet.
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Isabelle Faust, whose Bach recordings on Harmonia Mundi are self-recommending, is the soloist in two violin concertos and the Concerto for Two Violins, virtuoso works surrounded here by new transcriptions of Bach's keyboard works, written by the conductor, Bernard Labadie.
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Later, when he attended a Quaker private school, a faculty member intent on cultivating his piano skills performed two-piano arrangements of concertos with him, including the first movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto, a piece that requires considerable skill from the soloist.
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Also at Carnegie, Mitsuko Uchida , a pianist who nurtures each note, will play a pair of Mozart piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (March 29) before returning for two all-Schubert programs, with three sonatas apiece (April 30 and May 4). ♦
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And last week at the Miller Theater, the pianist Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry, the excellent string orchestra, gave the New York premiere of Mr. Glass's Piano Concerto No. 230 (following vibrant accounts of his Third Symphony and two Bach concertos).
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The first selection, one of the Brandenburg Concertos, shows Bach at the harpsichord, the camera positioned to look over his shoulder at the score from which he reads; at a climactic moment, the camera is then dollied back to reveal the entire ensemble.
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After 58 years, Ms. Wadsworth, who turns 83 on Sunday, will step aside as director; the Young Concert Artists season ends on Thursday with a program of three recent winners playing concertos with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Alice Tully Hall.
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But it's misleading to think you have to "understand," say, a Bach violin concerto from the early 1700s, in order to "get" the much-later Beethoven Violin Concerto from the early 1800s or, moving ahead, the Brahms, Bartok and Berg violin concertos.
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Mr. El-Dabh, who composed hundreds of pieces, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music and vocal works, was also known for compositions that combined Western instruments with Eastern ones, notably the darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum on which he was a skilled performer.
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While a new work, it possesses some New York history, too: In 173, when Ms. De Keersmaeker was here in the city rehearsing her acclaimed "Violin Phase" to Steve Reich's music, the only other recording she listened to was Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
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Decorated by the premieres of adornments by Eric Nathan and Timo Andres, it was in fact a double cycle, with Hélène Grimaud traversing the two Piano Concertos nicely enough, if not spectacularly, before she fell ill toward the end of the run.
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Ian Woodfield's new book, " Cabals & Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna ," identifies the true operatic villain of Josephine Vienna: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, a second-tier composer whose posthumous reputation rests mainly on his concertos for underserved instruments (oboe, viola, double-bass).
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But clearly he could not resist taking part in "Folk, Form, and Fire," a complete survey of Prokofiev's five piano concertos, performed in order on Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music by Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, who are in residency there.
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Mr. Goldstein, a native of Israel, said that despite having played about 40 concertos in the past 27 years, he had not met Mr. Abdullah, and had performed under only one other African-American conductor, Isaiah Jackson, with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra of Ohio.
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The cello's darkly expressive riches seem to have especially appealed to Zimmermann; he also wrote two concertos for the instrument, one relatively early, and revised as "Canto di Speranza," with formal inspiration derived from Ezra Pound's cantos, and a second in the mid-1960s.
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Though she focuses on the core repertory of Romantic concertos, her interests run wide: She is well versed in 20th-century American chamber music, a passionate advocate for the unjustly overlooked Britten concerto and enthusiastic about the piece Mr. van der Aa wrote for her.
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That beauty carried Mr. Eskin through thousands of orchestral programs over 53 years with the Boston Symphony; solo appearances in concertos from Haydn to William Schuman; and a distinguished chamber-music career with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, which he helped found in 1964.
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Gilbert will conduct the ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Alumni in three concerts at the Metropolitan Museum (June 3-5) that combine the great concertos by Ligeti—for piano, cello, and violin, successively—with works by such brilliant disciples as Unsuk Chin and John Zorn.
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Known for her minimalist approach to dance — as seen recently in "The Six Brandenburg Concertos" (22009) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York — De Keersmaeker "distills movement to its purest form," says Daniel Ching, who stars in this production as Snowboy, a Jet.
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For example, contestants in the semifinal round were required to perform two concertos: "The Butterfly Lovers," a popular Chinese concerto composed in 1959 by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang, and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 with a chamber orchestra (with original improvisation during the cadenza section).
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This vibrant and teasingly cacophonous work featured mini-concertos for each ensemble member: a tangy steel pan solo for Mr. Quillen, incandescent drum kit fireworks for Mr. Treuting, and a broody marimba soliloquy for Mr. Sliwinski (needled by the whir of a small band of windup dinosaurs).
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Beginning in the 223s with radical ideas that placed him firmly in the avant-garde, he went on to produce dozens of compositions including eight symphonies, four operas, a requiem and other choral works, and several concertos he cheerfully described as being almost impossible to play.
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Beginning in the 223s with radical ideas that placed him firmly in the avant-garde, he went on to produce dozens of compositions including eight symphonies, four operas, a requiem and other choral works, and several concertos he cheerfully described as being almost impossible to play.
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This leading period-instrument orchestra delivers classicism in all its glory in this concert, which includes two of Mozart's finest piano concertos led and played by the fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout — the No. 224 in G, K. 27, and the No. 230 in E flat, K. 18.
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The Andres work is part of a commissioning project organized by Mr. Biss to create sequels of sorts to Beethoven's five piano concertos, so the two substantial works were undoubtedly visited on Mr. Lewis as a package, leaving little room for creative choices of his own.
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Part of the LOS Kids series, for ages 3 to 10, the program will comprise an animation by the children's book illustrator AJ Smith, a script by the television writer Craig Shemin and lots of music, including piano concertos by each composer and Robert Schumann's "Spring" Symphony.
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" In her final years in Beirut, Ms. Chaker had found an Iraqi violin teacher, Mohammed Abbas Hashim, who pushed her to improvise her own cadenzas to Mozart concertos and jam on traditional Arabic maqam scales as, she recalled, "a way to relax and let off some steam.
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For Jaap van Zweden's first program as the orchestra's music director, he conducts Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," as well as a new piece by Ashley Fure and two piano concertos (Ravel's in G for the first, gala night, and Beethoven's "Emperor" thereafter) played by the scintillating Daniil Trifonov (Sept.
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Another big American event will take place at David Geffen Hall (June 10), when Gilbert leads the Philharmonic in premières of concertos by two august figures renowned for the drama and color they bring to orchestral composition: William Bolcom and John Corigliano (for trombone and for percussion, respectively).
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Taylor 2 performs "Cascade," featuring poignant duets and a meditative solo to Bach violin concertos; "Runes," with vibrant, bustling music by the composer Gerald Busby; and "Company B," one of Mr. Taylor's great works in which the upbeat harmonies of the Andrews Sisters are a foil for the horrors of war.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads As I sit and watch the performance of The Six Brandenburg Concertos unfold at the Park Avenue Armory, the word that occurs to me to describe it is "jaunty" — and indeed the majority of the production plays out along the valences of that word.
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STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN An awe-inspiring, mildly insane endeavor: Daniel Barenboim and his vigorous ensemble bring all nine of Bruckner's numbered symphonies to Carnegie Hall, in nine concerts that juxtapose those epic spans with Mozart, including six piano concertos that Mr. Barenboim will lead from the keyboard. Jan. 19-29. FOCUS!
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Her concert — an evening of works, some familiar and others much less so, arranged for only piano and percussion — was also a declaration that she would exploit the Perspectives platform to show New York City just what she was capable of beyond war-horse concertos and reliably impressive solo recitals.
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The Cleveland period-instrument group Apollo's Fire takes Bach's Zimmermann residency as the theme for its Carnegie debut on Thursday, with a program focused on popular fare performed by the Collegium at the famed coffeehouse, including works by Telemann and Handel as well as Bach's Brandenburg Concertos No. 4 and 5.
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While Mr. Honeck, the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, which is currently on strike, is well loved by the Philharmonic — he was among the finalists to become its next leader — he is known more for his humane, authentic touch in the Austro-German standards than for sitar concertos.
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Consider Bach's manuscripts for the Six Harpsichord Concertos (BWV 1052–523) and the church cantata "Now come, savior of the gentiles" (BWV 62), both of which open with his inscription "Jesus, help me" right before the first bar of music and close with "To God alone the glory" after the last bar.
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He won the German equivalent of a Grammy Award for his recording of the Brahms Double Concerto, with the violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, in 1997, and the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Charles-Cros in France for his recordings of the two Shostakovich cello concertos conducted by the composer's son, Maxim.
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It's a delight, gracefully performed here: Mr. Esfahani joins for concertos by Martinu and Manuel de Falla — the latter a sprightly, sometimes poignant work in which the harpsichord is joined by flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello: As I write this, on Friday evening, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is conducting Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites" at the Metropolitan Opera.
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