The Classical Music Thread

[Nordic Saint]

Southampton is one of the worst cities in the country for classical music. Why is that? Apart from the visits of the Welsh National Opera to the Mayflower and some chamber music at Turner Sims, there really isn't much going on. Even Basingstoke has more classical concerts.

 

Anyway, these are the ones I've been to in the last couple of years:

 

2013 March 19. Mayflower Theatre. Welsh National Opera. Lulu.

2013 March 20. Mayflower Theatre. Welsh National Opera. Madama Butterfly.

2013 April 9. Royal Festival Hall. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Yefim Bronfman, Michael Tilson Thomas. Schoenberg: Them & Variations for Orchestra Op. 43b; Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 op.83; Brahms orch by Schoenberg: Piano Quartet No.1; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.1

2013 April 12. Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Hélène Grimaud, Jiří Bělohlávek. Smetana: From Bohemia’s Mountains& Forests; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73; Dvorak: Symphony No.7 op.70

2013 April 21. Royal Festival Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, Jonas Kaufmann, Jochen Rieder. Verdi & Wagner arias.

2013 April 22. Royal Opera House. Die Zauberflöte.

2013 May 14. Royal Opera House. La Bayadère.

2013 May 15. Royal Festival Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, Rolando Villazón, Guerassim Voronkov. Verdi arias.

2013 May 18. Bournemouth Pavilion. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Nicola Benedetti, Kiril Karabits. Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture; Host: Jupiter from the Planets; Korngold: Marietta’s Lied; Shostakovich: Romance from The Gadfly, Andante from Counterplan; Saint-Saëns: Introduction& Rondo Capriccioso; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.2

2013 May 21. Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Boris Berezovsky, Neeme Järvi. Arvo Pärt: Silhouette; Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6; Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

2013 May 23. Sadler’s Wells Theatre. 6000 Miles Away. Sylvie Guillem, Aurelie Caya, Lukas Timulak, Massimo Murru

2013 May 27. Royal Opera House. La donna del lago.

2013 June 5. The Anvil, Basingstoke. Philharmonia Orchestra, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Christoph von Dohnányi. Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1; Beethoven: Symphony No.3

2013 June 8. Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Welsh National Opera. Lohengrin.

2013 June 22. Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Opera North. Siegfried.

2013 June 27. Wigmore Hall. Marc-Andre Hamelin. Ives: Piano Sonata No.2; Brahms: Piano

Sonata No.3 I F minor Op.5; Mozart: Piano Sonata No.16 in C major 1st movement

2013 July 9. Royal Opera House. Tosca.

2013 July 11. Royal Opera House. La Rondine.

2013 July 22. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Das Rheingold. Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

2013 July 23. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Die Walküre. Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

2013 July 28. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Götterdämmerung. Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

2013 August 6. Royal Opera House. Bolshoi Ballet. The Sleeping Beauty.

2013 August 16. Bolshoi Ballet. The Flames of Paris.

2013 August 22. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Anna Caterina-Antonacci, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture Romeo & Juliet; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Prokofiev: Symphony No.5 in B flat major; Shostakovich: Folk Feast from The Gadfly

2013 September 1. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Orchestre de Paris, Janine Jansen, Paavo Järvi. Arvo Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten; Britten: Violin Concerto; Berlioz: Overture Le Corsaire; Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 in C minor; Bizet: Galop from Jeux d’enfants, Farandole froml’Arlesienne

2013 September 5. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Calleja, Xian Zhang. Verdi: (La forza del destino) Overture, (Attila) O dolore! Ed io vivea, (I vespri siciliani): À toi que j'ai chérie, (La Traviata): Prelude Act 1, (Simon Boccanegra): O inferno!… Sento avvampar nell'anima , (Aida) Triumphal March Act2, (Luisa Miller): Oh! fede negar potessi … Quando le sere al placido , (Rigoletto): La donna e mobile;Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony; Rossini: William Tell Overture

2103 October 3. Barbican Hall. London Symphony Orchestra, Christian Tetzlaff, Daniel Harding. Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Stravinsky: Firebird Ballet

2013 October 22. Mayflower Theatre. English National Ballet. Le Corsaire.

2013 October 31. Royal Opera House. Wozzeck.

2013 November 14. Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Liang/Maliphant/Wheeldon. Yuan Yuan Tan, Fang-Yi Sheu, Damian Smith, Clifton Brown

2013 November 28. Mayflower Theatre. Welsh National Opera. Maria Stuarda.

2013 December 2. Royal Opera House. Parsifal.

2014 February 9. Barbican Hall. London Symphony Orchestra, Yuja Wang, Jaap van Zweden. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 Op.37; Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 Op.27

2014 February 25. Royal Festival Hall. Li Yundi. Schumann: Fantasie in C Op.17; Liszt: Tarantella No.3 from Venezia e Napoli; Traditional Chinese: Colour Clouds Chasing the Moon; 5 Yunnan Folk Songs, In that place faraway; Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F minor ‘Appassionata’

2014 March 5. The Anvil, Basingstoke. Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Barry Douglas, Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Kodaly: Dances of Galanta; Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No.1; Dvorak: Symphony No.8

2014 March 10. Barbican Hall. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Ivary Ilja. Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Borodin, Rimskykorsakov, Tchaikovsky, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Sviridov songs

2014 April 4. Barbican Hall. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Truls Mørk, Mariss Jansons. Haydn: Cello Concerto in C; Bruckner: Symphony No.7

2014 April 13. Barbican Hall. London Symphony Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov, Valery Gergiev. Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliees; Chopin: Piano Concerto No.2; Scriabin: Symphony No.3; Bach: Transcription of Violin Partita in C BMV 1006

2014 April 22. Royal Opera House. Faust.

2014 April 29. Royal Festival Hall. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Joseph Calleja, Andrew Greenwood. Rossini: William Tell Overture; Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances Op.6 no.6; Verdi arias.

2014 April 30. Royal Opera House. La Traviata.

2014 August 27. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Wu Wei, Myung-Whun Chung. Debussy: La mer; Unsuk Chin: Šu; Wu Wei: Dragon Dance; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in D minor; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor Allegro molto

2014 September 3. Royal Albert Hall. BBC Proms. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Roger Norrington. Beethoven: Symphony No.8 in F major; Berlioz: Romeo & Juliet Romeo Alone; Dvorak: Symphony No.9 in E minor; Faure: Prelude to Pelleas et Melisande Suite

2014 September 30. Royal Festival Hall. Daniil Trifonov. Bach arr. Liszt: Fantasia & Fugue in G minor BMv542; Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op.22

2014 October 9. Barbican Hall. London Symphony Orchestra, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Rafael Payare. Dukas: The Scorcerer’s Apprentice; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2; Rimskykorsakov: Scheherazade

2014 October 17. Mayflower Theatre. English National Ballet. Coppélia.

2014 November 3. Barbican Hall. Mariinsky Opera. Boris Godunov.

2014 November 13. Barbican Hall. London Symphony Orchestra, Denis Matsuev, Valery Gergiev. Balakirev: Russia; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2, Symphony No.3 Op.44

2015 January 8. Royal Festival Hall. Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel. Beethoven: Symphony No.5; Wagner: 2015 (Das Rheingold) Entry of the Gods into Valhalla, (Götterdämmerung): Siegfried’s Journey , Siegfried’s dream & funeral music; (Siegrfried) :Forest murmurs, (Die Walküre): Ride of the Valkyries, (Tristan und Isolde): Prelude & liebestod

2015 March 28. Mayflower Theatre. Welsh National Opera. Hansel und Gretel.

2015 April 17. Barbican Hall. New York Philharmonic, Joyce DiDonato, Alan Gilbert. Salonen: Nyx; Ravel: Sheherazade, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier suite: R. Strauss: Morgen; Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake suite

2015 May 17. Royal Festival Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, Daniil Trifonov, Vladmir Ashkenazy. Sibelius: Nightride & Sunrise; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3; Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E flat

2015 May 18. Queen Elizabeth Hall. Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin. Debussy:String Quartet in G minor Op.10, Preludes Bk.2 Nos. 4,5,6,7,11 &12; Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor

2015 June 5. Royal Festival Hall. Philadelphia Orchestra, Lisa Batiashvili, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Nico Muhy: Mixed Messages; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.1; Tchaikovsky: Romace; Rachmaninov: Symphony No.3, Vocalise

2015 June 10. Royal Opera House. La bohème.

2015 July 5. Royal Opera House. Guillaume Tell.

2015 July 9. Royal Opera House. Falstaff.

2015 November 22. St. John’s Smith Square. Jerusalem Quartet. Haydn: String Quartet No.1 in G Op.77 No.1; Bartok: String Quartet No.6 B119; Dvorak: String Quartet in F op.9 ‘American’

2016 January 1. Royal Opera House. Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci.

2016 January 12. Turner Sims. Navarra Quartet. Mozart: Quartet No.1 in G K80; Haydn: Quartet No.25 in C Op.20 No.2; Beethoven: Quartet No.14 in C sharp minor Op.131

2016 January 28. Royal Festival Hall. Philharmonia Orchestra, Håkan Hardenberger, Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Sibelius: Lemminkäinen's Return Op.22 No.4; Rolf Martinsson: Trumpet Concerto No.1 ‘The Bridge’; Sibelius: Symphony No.2 in D major Op.43

 

NEXT: 2016 February 16. Turner Sims. Vienna Piano Trio