Mahler Symphony 5: World Orchestra For Peace, Gergiev, 2009 Sweden, Live broadcast rec.

A seasonal Offering; I hear alot of hope in this version!

Stockholm, Sweden

2nd September 2009 WOP Concert, part of the Baltic Festival

World Orchestra For Peace

Valery Gergiev, conductor

This concert was given at the invitation of Sveriges Radio/ Berwaldhallen as a part of the 2009 Baltic Sea Festival - marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War 2 in the Baltic in 1939 and 200th anniversary of the peace treaty between Sweden and Finland.

Programme for this concert:

Track 1.

Krzysztof Penderecki

'Prelude for Peace'(WOP commission, Swedish premiere)

Tracks 2-5.

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 5 in C# minor

Penderecki's Prelude For Peace is short, in five minutes it achieves a broad swath of wonder to bask in and press 'repeat' immediately after.

The Mahler is a clean, positive-sounding reading that satisfies greatly. As usual with the Fifth, there are all these gorgeous musical structures spread to the skies only to be destroyed, and rebuilt, and again, the process moves forward thusly. Made up of a pick of crack top flight musicians, the World Orchestra For Peace shows its mettle navigating the big crashes without any undue muddiness of texture. It fits wonderfully for all us knit-browed 'serious music' junkies heading into a new decade!

for more info see

http://www.worldorchestraforpeace.com/concerts/previous-concerts/2-september-2009-stockholm/default.aspx

Thanks to "kurth.johansson" at concertarchive for originally getting this, enjoy and play it loud!

Prokofiev series by Gergiev/LSO live 2009 at Lincoln Center: Russian Dreams II

PART TWO: VOLS. 3 & 4

And the last two nights of this mostly outstanding series (Volumes 3 & 4, continued from previous post):

Vol. 3/4:

March 29, 2009 

in house recording

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall

"Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev"

Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.44 (1928)

• Moderato
  
• Andante
  
• Allegro agitato--Allegretto
  
• Andante mosso--Allegro agitato
  

Piano Concerto No.4 in B-flat major, Op.53 (1931)

• Vivace
  
• Andante
  
• Moderato
  
• Vivace
  

Encore Alexei Volodin

Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op.112

(revised version) (1947)

• Andante assai--Allegro eroico--Allegretto
  
• Andante tranquillo
  
• Moderato, quasi allegretto
  
• Allegro risoluto
  

Encore: Dance of the Knights from

Romeo and Juliet

Vol. 4/4:

March 30, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No.4 in C major, Op.47

(original version) (1929-30)

• Andante assai--Allegro eroico
  
• Andante tranquillo
  
• Moderato, quasi allegretto
  
• Allegro risoluto
  

Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935)

• Allegro moderato
  
• Andante assai
  
• Allegro, ben marcato
  

Encore

Vadim Repin and Andrew Haveron

Symphony No.5 in B-flat major, Op.100 (1944)

• Andante
  
• Allegro marcato
  
• Adagio
  
• Allegro giocoso
  

Encore: March from the Love of Three Oranges

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Andrew Haveron, guest leader

Vadim Repin, violin

Alexei Volodin, piano

Prokofiev series by Gergiev/LSO live 2009 at Lincoln Center: Russian Dreams

PART ONE: March 23 & 24, 2009

The whole Lincoln Center "Russian Dreams" Series is so ridiculously embarrassing in it's overflow of vividly performed riches that here it is:

A miniseries with almost all of it (what I could find, at least)...

Try this one through some good headphones; it's worth it, being a from-the middle-of-the-audience soundpoint!

 in house recordings

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall

London Symphony Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, conductor

"Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev"

Vol. 1/4: 

March 23, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

1-4 Symphony No.1 "Classcial"

5-7 Piano Concerto no.2

Encore:

Johannes Sebastian Bach (trans. Alexander Siloti)

8 Prelude in B minor, BWV 855a

Vladimir Feltsman, soloist

Vol. 2/4: 

March 24, 2009

Sergei Prokofiev

1-2 Symphony No.2

3-5 Violin Concerto no.2

Encore:

8 Scherzo from Violin Concerto no.2

9-11 Symphony no.7

Encore:

12 March from "Love For Three Oranges"

Vadim Repin, soloist

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Read what the NY Times reviewer felt about this series HERE

Purchase the studio recordings of this conductor/orchestra in Prokofiev HERE

The last two concerts from this series coming soon...

Prokofiev 2nd PianoConcerto, Bronfman and Gergiev, Vienna Philharmonic live in Carnegie Hall, 2008

Bronfman in rip-roaring slowburn concerto mode,

backed by some of Vienna's finest

I never indicated a preference for squeaky clean cd quality recordings. Although this was digitally taped recently, it is the performance behind the occasional pops and deep-in-the-audience perspective that commands involvement.

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (1912-13)

1. Andantino--Allegretto--Tempo 1

2. Scherzo: Vivaca

3. Intermezzo:Allegro moderato

4. Allegro temperstoso--Meno mosso--Allegro tempestoso

Encore: Scarlatti Sonata K.11 in C minor (Thanks for the info on that, Alfonso)

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Valery Gergiev, Conductor

Yefim Bronfman, Piano

The recording attendee (thank you!!!) notes, "Another beautiful concert with the Vienna Phil...The audience was stunned into silence at the end and

did not begin to applaud until the maestro turned around to face us."

In-house recording

March 1, 2008

Carnegie Hall

Vadim Repin. Shostakovich First Violin Concerto. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 2006, live.

Repin plays the original intro to the burleske. This guy was never taught that humans generally can't play so brutally well. So he does.

Wiener Philharmoniker steps up to the plate and swings mightily, filling the room with an appropriately Francis Bacon-sounding backdrop at times,

 other times making the gentlest waves of soothe. If you're unfamiliar with Vadim Repin please change that now. This may not be the highest quality (192 kbps) recording as far as sound fidelity goes, but none of that matters- It just doesn't. Select the scherzo, pull up on the volume control a bit, get ready to smile.

Shostakovich, Dmitry

Opus No. (77) 99, Violin Concerto 1

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Vadim Repin, soloist

from the Wiener Philharmoniker's 8th Subscription Concert 2006, April 23

from Musikverein, Large Hall (Vienna, Austria)

Thanks to Manuel for this.

his original links are also in the comments, which include an alternate recording, equally if not more powerful (with concomitantly worse sound, I lament!)

But remember. Your business is rejoicing. Your business is rejoicing. ;)