Posts Tagged ‘Emanuel Ax’
Emanuel Ax’s Brahms project
Emanuel Ax, a marvelous interpreter of Johannes Brahms, has embarked on a project that explores Brahms’s piano music in its original forms but also takes his music further by commissioning contemporary composers to make works around his music. We have the opportunity to hear some of the fruits of this project at […]
The more the merrier
For the longest time, I have been wanting to go down to hear the National Symphony Orchestra in the District. I’ve heard them once before, but that was when I had just flown into Dulles from a trip to Africa and I was so stupefied by jetlag that while my two companions – the late […]
Groupie update
If you’re a long-time member of WBJC, you may remember that, back in the dark ages before we went electronic, I wrote an article once for the old WBJC program guide in which I admitted that I was an Emanuel Ax groupie. Well, we may be up to minute with blogs and Twitter and a […]
Wednesday 10/03/12 Live! At The Concertgebouw
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Bernard Haitink SOLOIST: Emanuel Ax, piano ORCHESTRA: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Op. 80 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 15
Thursday 08/30/12 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Manfred Honeck Pianist: Emanuel Ax BRAUNFELS: Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Hector Berlioz BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 Fill: Schubert: Impromptu in Ab, D 935
Monday 07/16/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Emanuel Ax, piano; Jennifer Zetlan, soprano; Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-soprano; Paul Appleby, tenor; Joshua Hopkins, baritone; New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 Mozart: Mass in C Minor, Great Fill: Mozart: Overture to “The Magic Flute”
Monday 06/25/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Pianist: Emanuel Ax Debussy: Pagodes from Estampes (solo piano) Messiaen: Couleurs de la Cité Céleste (Colors of the Celestial City) Mahler: Symphony #5 Fill: J. S. Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins ( Violinists, Alan Gilbert & Frank Peter Zimmerman)
Tuesday 04/10/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Ludovic Morlot, Sir Mark Elder Pianist: Emanuel Ax Berlioz: Overture to Benvenuto Cellini Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 “Reformation” Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F Minor, Op 21 Wagner: Overture to Rienzi Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No 2
Thursday 02/02/12 Cleveland Orchestra
11pm Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano ADAMS: Guide to Strange Places HAYDN: Piano Concerto in D, Hob XVIII:II STRAVINSKY: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93
