20231207 Online Stream Musical Events
1. Robin Ticciati’s debut with Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Platform：Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall
Date of Broadcast：December 10, 2023
Link：https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/55039
One rarely hears Mahler’s Fourth Symphony so “naturally flowing, without mannerisms, with dazzling pianissimos”, wrote the Berliner Morgenpost about a concert with Robin Ticciati. This – for Mahler – unusually sunny work is on the programme when the music director of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin makes his debut with the Philharmoniker. The concert opens with Czech works: Antonín Dvořák’s The Noon Witch and Sinuous Voices by Ondřej Adámek.
2. Chloe Chua performs Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Platform：medici.tv
Date of Broadcast：December 14, 2023
Singaporean violin virtuoso Chloe Chua, who burst onto the scene at age 11 at the prestigious Menuhin Competition in 2018, joins forces with the sensational Singapore Symphony Orchestra in an evergreen program, featuring Vivaldi’s year-in, year-out favorite Four Seasons, plus Locatelli’s Violin Concerto in D Major, "The Harmonic Labyrinth"!
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, published in 1725, are the best known of the Baroque composer’s works—and some of the earliest examples of program music, as the concertos were published alongside a set of short seasonal sonnets. Upon their initial publication as part of Vivaldi’s Op. 8, the pieces were seen as rather avant-garde, leading to a mixed reception and a certain amount of controversy. After two centuries of obscurity, the Four Seasons began to find renewed favor in the 1950s, and decades later there are hundreds of different recordings of the set, including Chloe Chua’s dazzling album, released in 2023 when she was just 16! Italian Baroque composer Locatelli’s Violin Concerto in D Major perfectly complements Vivaldi’s iconic work. The final masterpiece of Locatelli’s set of twelve concertos titled L’arte del violino, this "Harmonic Labyrinth" is infamous for its exceptionally difficult capricci, described by the composer as "easy to enter, difficult to escape!"