Walt Disney Concert Hall
Photo by Lisa Hirsch
Friday, December 6, at 8PM
Saturday, December 7, at 2PM
Sunday, December 8, at 2PM
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
KNUSSEN Flourish with Fireworks (except Friday)
KNUSSEN Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
The late Oliver Knussen, acclaimed as composer and conductor, had a long connection with the LA Phil. His Violin Concerto is, by turns, intensely dramatic, lyrical, somber and skittish, and – as expected from a skilled conductor – it’s masterfully orchestrated. Thrilling to this day, Beethoven’s “Eroica” is one of the most revolutionary works in Western music, expanding the Classical symphony in almost every way imaginable.
[Yeah, okay, I wouldn't mind hearing Mälkki conduct the Eroica, but that's not the draw here.]
Tuesday, December 10, at 8PM
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
Susanna Mälkki, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
John Novacek, piano
Co-curated by Susanna Mälkki and Leila Josefowicz
Colin MATTHEWS Hidden Variables
KNUSSEN Reflection
Helen GRIME A Cold Spring
Huw WATKINS Piano Quartet
KNUSSEN Ophelia Dances Book 1
KNUSSEN Two Organa
HARVEY Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
To honor the memory of the LA Phil’s talented and beloved colleague Oliver Knussen, Mälkki and Josefowicz have programmed three of his remarkable creations and surrounded them with chamber-sized music by his friends, colleagues, and students. Come celebrate a musical life.
2 comments:
I will try to get to both of these. It looks like the Dec 7 and Dec 10 performances both have enough unsold seats so that senior rush tickets should be available -- I just have to get to the box office two hours before showtime.
I feel as you do about hearing the Eroica. At some point in the late '80s the Phil gave an immense performance of it under Carlo Maria Giulini: slightly under tempo, with winds doubled, 10 double basses, and all the repeats taken -- an hour long. Nobody would do that now, but it was overwhelming, and I haven't felt a need to hear it since then (although of course I have).
I could have heard Giulini and did not, and I regret it. That performance sounds astonishing.
Me, I need to order tickets to Salonen's upcoming concerts here.
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