concert live review

Please select 1 live-streamed concert to attend from the options below:

Mu Phi Epsilon has live-streamed concerts on Sunday at 3 p.m. throughout the semester and are free.  A link is provided on the day of the concert.  To see concerts please click the  Mu Phi Epsilon  link to concerts.

November 1 Christopher Phillpott and friends, violas da gamba November 8 Jeffery Ou Piano Studio  November 15 Mallory McHenry, harp

Richland Wind Symphony, Veterans Day Tribute Concert Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 4 PM  Fall Symphonic Instrumental Concert: Wind Symphony, String Orchestras, Chamber Ensembles Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 4 PM  Richland Guitar Ensemble Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10:30 AM  See Richland Music Performance Calendars for all of the latest updates.  https://www.dcccd.edu/cd/credit/music/rlc/pages/recital-series.aspx    Contact Derrick Logozzo at 972.238.6254, [email protected] for information.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

12:00pm PDT – London Philharmonic Orchestra: Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 [Marquee TV]

12:10pm PST – Santa Monica Mid-Week Recitals: Kirill Gliadkovsky, piano [Facebook] [YouTube]

 

Friday, November 13, 2020

5:00pm PDT – Curtis Institute of Music: Student Recital Series Part 4 [YouTube]

 

San Francisco Symphony

Nov. 14, 10 p.m.;  sfsymphony.org ; available indefinitely.

Orchestral music wasn’t written to be presented the way it has been in online streams (of varying quality) during the pandemic. But the industry is beginning to adapt, with new works written for the internet. That’s how Esa-Pekka Salonen is starting his tenure as the San Francisco Symphony’s new music director: with the premiere of Nico Muhly’s “Throughline,” which was composed so specifically for a virtual medium that it wouldn’t work in live performance. The program also includes pieces, more traditionally recorded, by Ellen Reid, Kev Choice, John Adams and — lest you forget his 250th birthday — Beethoven. JOSHUA BARONE

Seattle Symphony

Nov. 19, 10:30 p.m.;  s https://www.seattlesymphony.org/watch-listen/beyondthestage/program-notes-shostakovich-cello-concerto-no-2 ; available through Nov. 26.

Declare November the month of Tyshawn Sorey. Not even two weeks after hearing the premiere, from Detroit, of his violin concerto “For Marcos Balter,” travel — virtually, of course — to Seattle for another new work of his: “For Roscoe Mitchell,” for cello and orchestra. The soloist is Seth Parker Woods, and David Robertson conducts this enterprising ensemble in a livestreamed program that also includes Brett Dean’s “Testament” and Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony. ZACHARY WOOLFE

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Nov. 21, 8 p.m.;  cincinnatisymphony.org ; available through Dec. 12.

The conductor Louis Langrée has a strong track record in the music of Schubert, whose “Unfinished” Symphony anchors this program. But this conductor and his orchestra will also branch out, performing a piece by Julia Perry (“Homunculus C.F.”) as well as the Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Davis’s “You Have the Right to Remain Silent.” This work, with its sardonic invocation of the Miranda warning, has been memorably recorded  by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project . Cincinnati’s performance boasts the acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill, of the New York Philharmonic, as one of the featured soloists. SETH COLTER WALLS

Igor Levit and Julia Hagen

Nov. 30, 2:30 p.m.;  wigmore-hall.org.uk ; available through Dec. 30.

Few artists, if any, have played more livestreams this year than the pianist Igor Levit. In the early days of the pandemic he started broadcasting short programs from his apartment in Berlin. In the end there were more than 50 — recorded, unfortunately, with the blurry video and tinny sound of a smartphone. He occasionally dipped into studios for more official events, and their equipment better reflected his gifts for color and long phrasing. Thankfully he’ll be in a similar environment for this recital at Wigmore Hall with the cellist Julia Hagen, featuring sonatas by Debussy and Beethoven, as well as Busoni’s sprawling, Bach-inspired solo “Fantasia Contrappuntistica.” JOSHUA BARONE