{"id":2326,"date":"2011-01-19T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T09:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2011-01-19T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T09:46:13","slug":"2010-repertoire-report-alan-gilbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2011\/01\/19\/2010-repertoire-report-alan-gilbert\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Repertoire Report- Alan Gilbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, just when we thought Repertoire Report season was winding down, Anthony from New York took the initiative to get one last report in under the wire, for recently appointed New York Philharmonic conductor Alan Gilbert.<\/a> Thanks, Anthony.<\/p>\n

When Anthony emailed me, the first thing I did was look at the list of programs on his website<\/a>. It\u2019s a truly punishing schedule, and I can\u2019t really believe that he managed such a range of work with just 89 pieces.<\/p>\n

Of course, as with Bychkov, the secret is in repeating some central pieces a lot. Alan may have set the all-time record for most performances of Hindemith\u2019s Symphonic Metamorphasis in a single year in 2010. I think that\u2019s very cool. Still, if you\u2019re going to learn 3 hour Ligeti operas and the nearly-complete works of Varese, you can\u2019t be doing a different Hindemith work every week.<\/p>\n

I was particularly impressed by the fact that Alan did Schoenberg\u2019s Pelleas and Melisande on children\u2019s and family concerts- I doubt anyone else has had the guts to do that before. I\u2019m glad he\u2019s waving the flag for P&M- it\u2019s a great, great piece. Also, it was a wonderful idea for him to include works by \u201cvery young composers\u201d on his young people\u2019s concerts with the Philharmonic. That\u2019s both a great way to reach out to youngsters in the audience, who can see a possible connection between their own creativity and the orchestra, and a life changing opportunity for the young composers themselves.<\/p>\n

Alan is the only conductor besides me in 2010 who has any work as a player on his rep list in 2010. Props to him for playing the Brahms 2nd Sextet with colleagues from the NYP over the summer. When I spoke with him at the 2000 Aspen American Academy of Conducting, he said that giving up playing was the great regret of his career. I think it takes great courage and humility for any conductor to play chamber music with his or her colleagues in the orchestra, and working up your chops to NYP stadards is a big time commitment, especially for one piece. Props to Maestro Gilbert.<\/p>\n

Props also for doing most of the music of Varese in one concert. He also had one of the best programs I\u2019ve seen this year- Sibelius 7 and Das Lied von der Erde. That works on many levels!<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s also the only conductor so far whose repertoire actually spans from \u201cAdams to Zemlinsky.\u201d Why not stretch all the way to Zwilch?<\/p>\n

1.\tJohn Adams: Harmonielehre
\n2.\tAdams: The Wound-Dresser
\n3.\tJulian Anderson: Comedy of Change(U.S. Premiere)
\n4.\tBeethoven: Egmont Overture
\n5.\tBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
\n6.\tBeethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
\n7.\tBeethoven: “Die Weihe des Hauses,” Overture for Orchestra, Op. 124
\n8.\tBeethoven: Triple Concerto
\n9.\tBeethoven: Missa solemnis
\n10.\tBeethoven: Violin Concerto
\n11.\tBerg: Three Orchestral Pieces
\n12.\tAdam Bernstein: Changing Scenes
\n13.\tBrahms: String Sextet No. 2 (as violist)
\n14.\tBrahms: Violin Concerto
\n15.\tBrahms: Symphony No. 2
\n16.\tBrahms: Symphony No. 4
\n17.\tChopin: Piano Concerto TBA
\n18.\tCopland: Fanfare for the Common Man
\n19.\tDebussy: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
\n20.\tIsaac Draper: Angel’s Landing
\n21.\tAmina Durakovic: Relative…
\n22.\tHenri Dutilleux: M\u00e9taboles
\n23.\tEthan D’Ver: Brooklyn-Bound F Train
\n24.\tStella Fiorenzoli: The Sixty-Sixth Center
\n25.\tGrisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
\n26.\tHK Gruber: Aerial
\n27.\tHaydn: Symphony No. 49, “La Passione”
\n28.\tHindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
\n29.\tNoah Jimenez: Caleb
\n30.\tLigeti: Atmospheres
\n31.\tLigeti: Le Grand Macabre, opera in four acts
\n32.\tLindberg: Al largo (World Premiere)
\n33.\tMagnus Lindberg: Souvenir (in memoriam G\u00e9rard Grisey) (World Premiere)
\n34.\tLindberg: Clarinet Concerto (U.S. Premiere)
\n35.\tMagnus Lindberg: Kraft
\n36.\tLindberg: EXPO
\n37.\tLindberg: Arena
\n38.\tMahler: Das Lied von der Erde
\n39.\tMahler: Symphony No. 6
\n40.\tWynton Marsalis: Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3
\n41.\tJames Matheson: True South (World Premiere)
\n42.\tMendelssohn: Elijah
\n43.\tMozart: Piano Concerto No. 23
\n44.\tMendelssohn: Violin Concerto
\n45.\tMozart: Sinfonia concertante for Winds
\n46.\tMozart: Symphony No. 25
\n47.\tMozart: Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
\n48.\tMozart: Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
\n49.\tMuhly: Detailed Instructions
\n50.\tNielsen: Symphony No. 2, “The Four Temperaments”
\n51.\tElmir Nikocevic: Lost in the Forest
\n52.\tMichael Parsons: The Plain of Six Glaciers
\n53.\tPintscher: songs from Solomon’s garden
\n54.\tProkofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
\n55.\tRachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
\n56.\tRavel: Bol\u00e9ro
\n57.\tRouse: Zhizn (World Premiere)
\n58.\tBrooke Samerson: Manifest Destiny
\n59.\tSchoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande
\n60.\tSchoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
\n61.\tSchubert: Symphony in B minor, “Unfinished”
\n62.\tSchumann: Symphony No. 2
\n63.\tShepherd: These Particular Circumstances
\n64.\tSibelius: Valse triste
\n65.\tSibelius: Violin Concerto
\n66.\tSibelius: Symphony No. 2
\n67.\tSibelius: Symphony No. 7
\n68.\tSmith: The Star Spangled Banner
\n69.\tR. Strauss: Don Juan
\n70.\tStravinsky: Petrushka (1947)
\n71.\tTchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
\n72.\tTchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, selections
\n73.\tTchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra
\n74.\tTchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
\n75.\tVar\u00e8se: Ionisation
\n76.\tVar\u00e8se: Octandre
\n77.\tVar\u00e8se: Tuning Up
\n78.\tVar\u00e8se: Arcana
\n79.\tVar\u00e8se: Nocturnal
\n80.\tVivaldi: Concerto for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10
\n81.\tVar\u00e8se: Am\u00e9riques (1929)
\n82.\tWagner: Siegfried Idyll
\n83.\tWagner: Overture to Rienzi
\n84.\tR. Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
\n85.\tWebern: Passacaglia, Op. 1
\n86.\tWebern: Symphony, Op. 21
\n87.\tWebern: Im Sommerwind
\n88.\tJay Alan Yim: neverthesamerivertwice(World Premiere)
\n89.\tZemlinsky: Six Songs After Poems by Maurice Maeterlinck, op. 13<\/p>\n

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