20240112 Online Stream Musical Events
1. Kirill Petrenko conducts Bartók’s “The Wooden Prince”
Platform：Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall
Date of Broadcast：January 14, 2024
Link：https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/zh/concert/55044
Only when someone overcomes his pride does he encounter true love: that is the message of Béla Bartók’s The Wooden Prince. This exquisitely orchestrated dance pantomime, which alternates between sensuousness and realism, helped the composer achieve his breakthrough. Kirill Petrenko has also programmed another work that was a milestone in its composer’s career: Henri Dutilleux’s First Symphony.
2. The National Youth Orchestra of Germany with Mahler’s Ninth Symphony
Platform：Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall
Date of Broadcast：January 16, 2024
Link：https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/zh/concert/55045
For the Berliner Philharmoniker, the National Youth Orchestra of Germany is more than just a highly talented young orchestra: as its patron, the orchestra feels a special bond with this elite youth ensemble. This year, under the direction of Alexander Shelley, it will perform Mahler’s Ninth, the composer’s last completed symphony. With its fractured, inconsistent tonal language, it is regarded as Mahler’s musical legacy – and at the same time as a precursor of musical Modernism.
3. Franz Welser-Möst conducts Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin, Mahler, and Krenek
Platform： medici.tv
Date of Broadcast： January 14, 2024
The Cleveland Orchestra, "America's finest" (The New York Times), join their esteemed longtime music director Franz Welser-Möst for a provocative and poignant program centered around the suite from Béla Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin—a pantomime ballet about the dark passions between men and women that caused such a scandal at its 1926 Cologne premiere that it was banned on moral grounds! The music remains as striking and unique as ever, which can also be said for the other works on the program: the eclectic and rarely heard Kleine Symphonie by Austrian-born composer Ernst Krenek; the intense opening Adagio from Gustav Mahler's uncompleted Tenth Symphony; and another favorite by Bartók, the bold and complex String Quartet No. 3 in an orchestral arrangement.
4. Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev perform Schubert, Chopin, and Mozart (Le Piano Symphonique Festival 2024)
Platform：medici.tv
Date of Broadcast：January 17, 2024
Lucerne’s piano festival Le Piano Symphonique is back with an absolutely thrilling third edition featuring the legendary Martha Argerich in the role of featured artist (pianiste associée)!
The curtain rises on virtuoso Mikhail Pletnev performing Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 4 in A Minor, an early composition with rich harmonies and emotional contrasts. Next up are Chopin’s 24 Preludes—a romantic tour de force that marks a whirlwind start to this prestigious festival. What better way to continue this opening concert than by joining pianistic forces with Martha Argerich herself? The duo perform Mozart’s enchanting Andante and Five Variations in G Major before concluding with Schubert’s Fantasia in F Minor, described by musicologist Christopher Gibbs as “among not only his [Schubert’s] greatest but his most original” compositions for piano duet.