En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Saariaho

La cuarta ópera de de Kaija Saariaho llega a Madrid con el mismo reparto que en su estreno mundial y Davone Tines, Philippe Jaroussky y Nora Kimball-Mentzos en los papeles protagonistas

Un atractivo programa fundado en los contrastes, con un discurso heterogéneo que entrecruza lenguajes folclóricos, electroacústicos y clásicos, donde la emotividad se reinventa en las melodías de Kaija Saariaho. 

Música de origen finlandés para presenciar las Auroras Boreales desde el Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, con Frédéric Chopin como invitado.

La nouvelle création de Kaija Saariaho est une grande œuvre musicale mal servie cependant par une mise en scène façon Netflix de Simon Stone.

Die deutsche Erstaufführung von Kaija Saariahos Vista ergänzt ein Programm raffinierter Orchesterfarben.

Travel restrictions prevented both the concert’s marquee names from appearing, but their stand-ins stamped their personalities on an immensely attractive (and unchanged) programme. 

Retour sur le récital exceptionnel donné par le pianiste ukrainien Vadym Kholodenko salle Gaveau, dans un programme alliant Mozart, Schubert, Saariaho, Scriabine et Rachmaninov. 

En compagnie du pianiste Nelson Goerner, la phalange héraultaise a emmené son public fidèle dans une soirée festive, avec Michael Schønwandt en heureux maître de cérémonie. 

NYVOS Next offers works by Alvin Lucier, Kaija Saariaho and evening curator Kate Soper in a program demonstrating both the breadth of and inherent risks in live performance with electronics.

In Kaija Saariaho's clarinet concerto D'om le vrai sens, with Kari Kriikku as soloist, and Mahler's Symphony no. 7, masterfully conducted by Ilan Volkov, the RTÉ NSO enchant the audience in Dublin.

Storgårds, Helmchen and the Boston Symphony Orchestra impress with a programme inspired by nature.

Mälkki triumphs in the subtleties of Saariaho, stumbles in the ecstasies of Messiaen. 

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gave the impression that he had been playing the cello since he was in the womb

Cette adaptation par Ezra Pound de deux pièces de théâtre nô, devient dans les mains de Kaija Saariaho un véritable manifeste d’épure théâtrale et de poésie musicale.

Czech harpsichord legend Zuzana Růžičková would have turned 91 on 14 January, making it an ideal night for a tribute concert featuring one of her star pupils, Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. As he noted in brief remarks sandwiched between rousing renditions of Bach, “When she died, I lost a great teacher. But this country lost part of its history.

Leila Josefowicz ticked all the boxes in this stunning recital: highly imaginative curation; musicality in every note; and a winning ability to communicate to the Wigmore Hall audience.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra brought a fresh approach to Mahler's Fourth Symphony and the harp took centre stage for a change with a concerto première.  

Saariaho’s lush orchestral shapes could just as readily suggest ecstasy as agony.

Was die von Andreas Felber einstudierte Zürcher Sing-Akademie bot, war überwältigend: sehr eindrücklicher, homogener Chorklang, virtuos und flexibel in den polyphonen Partien, ausgezeichnete dynamische Kontrolle und Stimmausgleich: besser geht's nicht!

L’Orchestre Pasdeloup revient à la Philharmonie dans un programme varié qui mêle la musique de Kaija Saariaho à Prokofiev et Beethoven. Au pupitre, le chef ukrainien Mykola Diadiura, avec le pianiste Abdel Rahman El Bacha.

Belle idée que de faire coïncider les ateliers dédiés à l’orgue de l’Auditorium et la programmation du festival Présences : l’orgue se prête mieux que n’importe quel instrument au désir de monographies de cette édition, mettant à l’honneur une compositrice à la croisée d’influences et de domaines d’expression.

Merveilleux récital du baryton Stéphane Degout et du pianiste Cédric Tiberghien : premier des lundis musicaux de l'Athénée. Récital entre poésie, suprises et élégance. 

Conductor Susanna Mälkki, in her Met Opera debut, led the Met Opera Orchestra in a limber performance of Ms Saariaho's gorgeous music, the first woman-authored score to be heard at the Met in 113 years.

John Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic offer an intriguing autumnal programme of freezing delights. 

In the finale to Der Dreigroschenoper the sinister incantation of "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch?" ("For what does man live?") ran delightfully close to the bone in these plush surroundings

Clarinetist Kari Kriikku sauntered through the aisles of both the orchestra and audience, spinning around in two complete 360s and surely dousing the flabbergasted listeners in the floor seating with saliva.

Besides Giltburg’s superlative play in Grieg, Saraste’s Sibelius swept you off your feet. 

Philippe Jaroussky stars in a new Kaija Saariaho—Peter Sellars collaboration: Only the Sound Remains. Not since Written on Skin has modern opera thrilled with such intensity.

Principals from Royal Northern Sinfonia showcase new music from even further North than Gateshead, with chamber works from Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

A superb lunch time concert by the Britten Sinfonia players which included outstanding performances of works by Debussy, Fauré and a newly commissioned work titled "Light and Matter” by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. 

The English String Orchestra present works inspired by nature, colour and life by four contemporary composers.

Un concert de « musique spatiale », composé d’œuvres de Grisey, Saariaho, Maresz, Harvey et Boule, au festival de Radio France, à Montpellier. Le spectateur est projeté dans un autre espace-temps, pour une immersion au cœur de la technologie et de l’innovation artistique qui ne peut laisser indifférent.

A programme of works by Kaija Saariaho and Jean Sibelius promised a blast of Nordic ice down the back of the neck, but the performances under fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen raised the temperature considerably higher than anticipated.

The San Francisco Contemporary Chamber Music Players headlined the third night of the Sweet Thunder Festival with a program of electroacoustic warhorses and world premières.

Susanna Mälkki and the RSNO offer the best company on Mussorgsky's virtual visual gallery adventure, while Jack Liebeck shines in Prokofiev. 

“I put into your hands manuscripts that I very much wish will remain after me,” wrote Émilie du Châtelet shortly before the birth of her fourth child in 1749. “I hope... that my lying-in, which I am expecting at any moment, will not be fatal, as I fear.” Her fears did prove fatal, and she died days after giving birth, at the age of 42.

Gloria Cheng is an uncommon artist. A specialist in contemporary piano literature, she has made a career championing new music and performing programs of adventurous (which is to say, esoteric) works. She is a frequent collaborator with some of the leading lights of contemporary music, including Pierre Boulez and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

If only every orchestral concert were as thoughtfully programmed as the Saint Louis Symphony’s last Saturday. David Robertson led his orchestra in Debussy’s Printemps, an ingratiating early work; the Carnegie Hall premiere of Quatre Instants by Kaija Saariaho with the irrepressible soprano Karita Mattila; and the full-length version of Stravinsky’s Firebird.

There are triple bills ---and there are triple bills. And this one –the first of The Royal Ballet’s 2011/12 season -- is certainly a top rate one.The programme, put together by Artistic director Monica Mason in her final year at the helm, gives an historical glimpse into the foundations and creative growth of The Royal Ballet over the years.

You might think that a programme containing Bach and 20th/21st century composers would suggest an evening of unconnected extremes. Nothing could be further from the truth in the case of Jennifer Koh's Bach and Beyond recital, given in Lennoxlove House, Haddington as part of the Lammermuir Festival.

The BBC Symphony presented a packed programme for this concert in celebration of their 80th anniversary. The performances were interspersed with two short films looking back at the orchestra’s illustrious history, with former principal conductors such as Adrian Boult and Pierre Boulez.