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Concert season packed with classics
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THE Shanghai Concert Hall recently announced its 2017 season, which will see about 300 concerts take place from late January through the end of December next year.
The new season boasts world-renowned musicians and ensembles, as well as an array of experimental performances.
Kicking off a year of music will be pianist and four-time Echo Klassik winner Martin Stadtfeld, who will give an all-Bach recital on January 22. Also featured in the season-opening series is Russian violinist Sergei Krylov, who was lauded as “one of the top five contemporary violinists” by the late Mstislav Rostropovich.
For piano enthusiasts, highlights of the season’s lineup include Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, who was hailed by Anthony Tommasini for his “prodigious” technique and “poetic sensibility.”
Another soloist worth anticipating is Russian-born British pianist Nikolai Demidenko, who is acclaimed for his interpretation of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
Scheduled for March 5 and April 16 respectively, recitals from Anderszewski and Demidenko will be followed by Jean-Marc Luisada and Fazil Say in June and September.
European early music
European early music is an important part of the season’s offerings.
The Graz-born harpist, lutenist and conductor Christina Pluhar will land in Shanghai next July with her Paris-based early-music ensemble, L’Arpeggiata, which is often referred to as a “baroque-jazz” group for their quirky improvisations.
In April, Iranian-born musician Mahan Esfahani will stage a harpsichord recital.
With chamber music from the Romantic era a major theme of this season, the 2017 Mini Festival will present the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from New York, with works of Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorák in their repertoire.
Also in the chamber music domain, a concert by Camerata de Lausanne will be led French violinist and conductor Pierre Amoyal, whose 1717 “Kochanski” Stradivarius violin turns 300 years old next year.
The season will also feature a number of modern, innovative works. Two productions will make creative use of the Shanghai Concert Hall, melding music with theater and dance.
On September 6-7, Song of the Goat Theater will stage the Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, “Songs of Lear,” a dramatic song cycle that captures the cadence and energy of the Shakespearean tragedy through non-linear storytelling.
Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance will stage their collaboration project, “Goldberg Variations — Ternary Patterns for Insomnia,” a choreographed string arrangement of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations.” According to Jonathan Morton, artistic director of Scottish Ensemble, the dance elements add “human fragility” to Bach’s music.
Next year also marks the third year of the concert hall’s charity concert series, which is part of the venue’s commitment to offering “music for everyone.” Tickets for performances by guitarist Elena Càsoli, flutist Michael Martin Kofler, saxophonist Claude Delangle, and violinist Ian Swensen will be available to the public for as cheap as 80 yuan (US$11.6).
A closing concert series next December will wrap up the year with a flourish. The London-based Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will reimagine Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier,” with footage taken from a 1926 Austrian silent film adaptation of the opera. Estonian choral group Vox Clamantis, a frequent performer of Arvo Pärt’s music, will make their debut in China on December 17.
For next year’s holiday seasons, the Shanghai Concert Hall has booked New York’s Harlem Gospel Choir, the Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, and Vienna’s Johann Strauss Orchestra, among others.
To get detailed concert information,
check www.shanghaiconcerthall.org
(in Chinese only).
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