Over to Germany this week for a concert by the Wuppertal Symphony, conducted by Toshiyuki Kamioka and featuring legendary Hungarian pianist Dezso Ranki in music of Liszt and Bartok. The concert was broadcast live by WDR3 in Germany.

Here's what they play:

Montag, 23.04.12 um 20:05 Uhr
WDR 3 Städtekonzerte NRW
Live - Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal

Franz Liszt
Zwei Legenden

Béla Bartók
Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 Sz 95

Béla Bartók
Konzert für Orchester Sz 116

Dezsö Ránki, Klavier

Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal
Leitung: Toshiyuki Kamioka

Live aus der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal
Redaktion: Christoph Held

The concert is broken up between two players - the top player features the Liszt and the Bartok Piano Concerto and the bottom player features Concerto For Orchestra.

Announcements are in German, so drag out your translation books.

Otherwise, perfect Anti-Road Rage Wednesday music. No?

A special concert this week, recorded live and direct from the Salle Pleyel in Paris by Radio France Musique on December 21, 2011 and featuring Orchestre de Paris conducted by the legendary Pierre Boulez in music of Arnold Schoenberg and Bela Bartok.

Starting off with Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht and then, after some stage arranging, a performance of the Bartok 2nd Piano Concerto, featuring Bertrand Chamayou as solo. And after intermission, finishing up with the Bartok Concerto For Orchestra.

A memorable concert with a suitably ecstatic audience.

The concert (originally over 2 1/2 hours long) was edited (since it was live there was a lot of padding) and it's on two players -- the top player features the Schoenberg and Bartok Piano Concerto. And the bottom player finishes up with the Bartok Concerto For Orchestra.

Notes:

mercredi 21 décembre 2011

En direct de la Salle Pleyel : Schönberg, Bartók

Part 1 - Arnold Schönberg

La Nuit transfigurée Op.4 (1899)

Béla Bartók
Concerto N°2 Sz.112 BB.117 (1937,1938)

Part 2 - Concerto pour orchestre (1943)

Bertrand Chamayou, Piano
Orchestre de Paris
Pierre Boulez, Direction

I understand this concert was also televised and video live-streamed - but I have no idea what it sounds like.

In any event, a great addition to your Anti-Road Rage Wednesday collection of soothing non-violent music.

Back to Paris this week for a Chamber recital by the Takacs String Quartet. Recorded live at the Theatre de Ville on October 13th, the concert features music of Ravel, Bartok and Dvorak, with an encore by Haydn.

Here's the playlist:

Théâtre de la Ville : Récital du Quatuor Takacs

Maurice Ravel
Quatuor en Fa majeur (1902,1903)

Béla Bartók
Quatuor N°1 Op.7 Sz.40 (1908,1909)

Antonín Dvořák (1878,1879)
Quatuor N°10 en Mi bémol majeur Op.51 B.92, Slave

QUATUOR TAKÁCS
Edward Dusinberre violon
Károly Schranz violon
Geraldine Walther alto
András Fejér violoncelle

Concert donné le 13 octobre 2011.
en bis, 15h33
Joseph Haydn
Quatuor n° 53 en ré majeur op 64 n°5 Hob III 63 finale Vivace

The concert is broken up between two players - the top player is the Ravel and Bartok. The bottom player is the Dvorak and Haydn encore.

This fills the bill for a Wednesday Anti-Road Rage concert quite nicely.

No?

Over to the Salle Pleyel in Paris this week for a concert by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, guest conducted by Philippe Jordan and featuring pianist Francois-Frederic Guy in a program of Bartok and Beethoven with Guy playing the 3rd Piano Concerto. The concert was recorded live on January 22, 2010.

A great program which, as always is complete. Here is the rundown:

Salle Pleyel : Bartók, Beethoven

Part 1 (Top Player)
Béla Bartók:
Divertimento pour cordes

Part 2 (Bottom Player)
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concerto N°3 en Ut mineur Op.37 (w/Francois-Frederic Guy)

Béla Bartók
Le Mandarin merveilleux

François-Frédéric Guy, Piano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Philippe Jordan, Direction

Concert donné le 22 janvier 2010.

Announcements are in French, but they're edited.

Enjoy and think about Anti-Road Rage Wednesday!

Over to Amsterdam this week, by way of Paris, for a concert recorded live featuring the Amsterdam Concertgebouw conducted by Mariss Jansons and featuring Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto in a performance of the Songs and Dances Of Death by Moussorgsky. Also on the program is the Bartok Music for Strings Percussion And Celesta and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite.

As always, the concert is complete with the Bartok and Moussorgsky on the top player and the Stravinsky on the bottom player.

Original announcements are in Dutch but the French announcer goes over the Dutch announcements so you have a jumble of foreign languages to sort through - that's why there's the program to look at.

mercredi 25 août 2010
En direct d'Amsterdam : Bartók, Moussorgski, Stravinski(Dès 20 heures 15)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Musique pour cordes, percussions et célesta
Modeste Moussorgski (1839-1881)
Chants et Danses de la mort
Igor Stravinski (1882-1971
L'Oiseau de feu, suite

Ferruccio Furlanetto, Basse
Orchestre royal du Concertgebouw
Mariss Jansons, Direction
Concert donné au Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam dans le cadre du Festival Concerts d'été Robeco

Enjoy.