Richard Strauss’s
Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera
Ariadne auf Naxos. View here.
12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents
Ex Cathedra: Baroque Passion. Jeffrey Skidmore and his choir Ex Cathedra present a program of passionate Lenten music by Kuhnau, Lotti, Monteverdi, and Purcell. It’s poignant music that yearns for resolution heart-rending as Mary weeps at the foot of the cross in Scarlatti’s
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Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here.
8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents
Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s
Stelé for two percussionists, David Maric’s
Nascent Forms for mallet quartet, and David T. Little’s
Haunt of Last Nightfall for percussion quartet and electronics. View here.
5 things to do this week: Takacs Quartet, ‘Currents,’ and The Quick & Easy Boys
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Winter tends to be a slow time in entertainment options, even during a “normal” year. But 2021 doesn’t want to leave you hanging. So we’ve come up with some streaming options for various types of music, and an in-person art show featuring a Portland favorite.
The Takacs Quartet, courtesy of the Friends of Chamber Music. (Amanda Tipton, photographer)
Takács Quartet
The Friends of Chamber Music present the first string quartet inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012 and the first string quartet to win the Wigmore Hall Medal in 2014. The Takács Quartet is known for the vitality of its interpretations. BBC Music Magazine said the 2019 Christmas recording “gives a superbly committed reading” of Dohnányi’s First Piano Quintet in C minor, “which maximizes the music’s textural and dynamic variety.”
Part three (and the finale!) of Artistic Director Monica Huggett and harpsichordist Byron Schenkman playing all six of Bach’s beloved sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord. The January 8th performance of Bach Sonatas: Part III is in memory of Roberta Cohen, who was the Co-Chair of the Board of PBO from 2004 to 2005. Roberta.
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