20240202 Online Stream Musical Events
1. Daniele Gatti conducts Schoenberg, Strauss and Wagner
Platform：Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall
Date of Broadcast：February 3, 2024
Link：https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/zh/concert/55051
Daniele Gatti conducts three late Romantic works. In Transfigured Night, Arnold Schoenberg depicts the conflicted emotional state of a pair of lovers, while Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration reflects the emotions and visions of a dying man. Passion transformed into music – the opera Tristan und Isolde, in which Richard Wagner celebrates a love that finds its ultimate fulfillment in death. We hear the Prelude and Liebestod.
2. Kirill Petrenko and Lisa Batiashvili
Platform：Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall
Date of Broadcast：February 17, 2024
Link：https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/zh/concert/55052
Intimate and passionate: Karol Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto is thought to be a secret declaration of love to the violinist Paul Kochanski. Lisa Batiashvili, Artist in Residence for 2023/24, is able to reveal the poetry of this work. Richard Strauss does not depict his family life secretly but quite openly and humorously in his Symphonia domestica – including a child’s cries, a marital quarrel and reconciliation. Kirill Petrenko conducts.
3. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 and Te Deum
Platform：medici.tv
Date of Broadcast：February 12, 2024
The obsessive Anton Bruckner worked on his Ninth Symphony for the last ten years of his life, but the concluding Adagio remained unfinished at his death in 1896. He is said to have suggested that his Te Deum be used in its place—and leaving aside the tonal shift from the D-minor symphony to a C-major hymn, it feels a fitting grand finale for the famously devout composer, who dedicated his last symphony to God. In a concert billed as A Blaze of Glory, the acclaimed Nathalie Stutzmann—who counts Bruckner among her three favorite composers to conduct—leads the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, joined by soloists Christina Nilsson, Anna Stéphany, Robin Tritschler, and Alexander Tsymbalyuk, in a program that represents no less than the culmination of Bruckner's life's work, a mighty and magnificent call to heaven itself.
4. Iván Fischer conducts Brahms — With Yefim Bronfman
Platform：medici.tv
Date of Broadcast：February 21, 2024
Two classical music giants team up for an all-Brahms evening with the Budapest Festival Orchestra: Grammy-winning pianist Yefim Bronfman and maestro Iván Fischer, who has spent four decades forming the BFO into one of the world's preeminent ensembles! Each half of the program includes a lively and irresistible Hungarian Dance, plus one of Brahms's large-scale masterworks: first, with the mighty Bronfman, the monumental Piano Concerto No. 2, described self-effacingly by the composer as a "very small piano concerto with a very small and pretty scherzo" in a letter to Clara Schumann—an understatement for all time—and last, the Symphony No. 2 in D, an exultant and spirited work that Brahms cheekily called "so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it," performed with remarkable precision and stunning eloquence by Fischer and the BFO.
