UK;The best classical music for 2011 [音楽時評]
London の The Guardian紙が，前向きに2011年の The best classical music を記事にしていました．日本では，音楽団体も音楽雑誌も乱立していますし，新聞社は海外から招聘するオーケストラの共催者になることもあって，こうした記事を目にすることは少ないと思います．
まず挙げているのが作曲家だというのも珍しいですね．
Peter Maxwell Davies は In 1999, Peter Maxwell Davies completed his theatre piece Mr Emmet Takes a Walk – and he made it known that it would be his last foray into the world of opera and musical theatre. と公言して，concentrating particularly on chamber music, and especially on the series of 10 Naxos Quartets that occupied him between 2001 and 2007． だったそうですが， the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York came up with the idea of a joint commission for a theatre piece that would be performed in both cities, with casts made up of students from each establishment. という委嘱を受けて，それに乗り出したのだそうです．それは，
"fellow students". In a work expressly intended for students to perform, Pountney has created a dramatic structure that interlocks three stories of 20th-century student political action: from Nazi Germany, from China during the Cultural Revolution, and from the US during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. All three stories are brought together in the final scenes.
と今から興味深く感ずる制作目標です．
これもわれわれにも深い関心のあるProject ですね．
In a series of five recitals, the great Maurizio Pollini charts the history of keyboard music across three centuries, beginning with Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and ending with Stockhausen's Piano Pieces – and including, en route, recitals devoted to sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.
東京で数年前にやったシリーズを思い起こさせますが，including, en route, recitals devoted to sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert. とあります．
Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 ; southbankcentre.co.uk), 28 January; 15 and 26 February; 29 April; 25 May.
Anna Nicole
The premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera, with a libretto by Richard Thomas, based on the life of American model and sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith who died in 2007. Richard Jones's staging promises sex, extreme language, drug abuse and a troupe of pole dancers.
超現代的な新作オペラですね．
Royal Opera House, London WC2 , 17 February – 4 March.
Simon Rattle
After strictly rationing his British appearances for a decade, Simon Rattle is everywhere in 2011. He brings the Berlin Philharmonic to London for four concerts; conducts the LSO in Bruckner and Messiaen; returns to the CBSO for Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde; and renews his partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Haydn and Mozart.
滅多にイギリスに来ないSimon Rattle が久しぶりにイギリスに Berlin Philharmony を連れてくるほか，古巣のCBSO (City of Bermingham Symphony Orchestra)とthe Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmentも振るそうです．
With the Berlin Philharmonic at the Barbican, London EC2 and Southbank Centre, London SE1 , 20-23 February. With the LSO at the Barbican on 7 March. With the CBSO at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 12 June. With the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall, London,
Intermezzo
Scottish Opera mounts a rare British production of Richard Strauss's most autobiographical stage work, with its music director Francesco Corti conducting a production by Wolfgang Quetes, and Roland Wood and Anita Bader as the warring conductor Robert Storch and his wife Christine. Scotish Opera が大胆にRichard Strauss's most autobiographical stage work を上演するそうです．
Theatre Royal, Glasgow , 26 March, 30 March and 2 April; Festival theatre Edinburgh, 7 and 9 April.
Seven Angels
Luke Bedford and Glyn Maxwell's chamber opera reinterprets Milton's Paradise Lost as a contemporary ecological parable. It's a joint production between the Opera Company and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, directed by John Fulljames and conducted by Nicholas Collon.
これも新作オペラのようですが，Milton's Paradise Lost を現代の環境問題に置き換えて上演するようです．
CBSO Centre, Birmingham , 17 and 18 June.
Die Walküre
Mark Elder may one of the few great Wagner conductors of our time still to conduct a Ring cycle, but he is gradually working his way through the tetralogy in concerts with the Hallé. After starting with Götterdämmerung in 2009, he's going back to the second opera, dividing it across two evenings, and prefacing the first act with a specially commissioned prologue.
これはWagner の The Ring の第2夜 Walkure を2夜に分け，第1夜を特に委嘱した Prologue を第1幕の前に持ってくるのだそうです．
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester , 15 and 16 July
Beethoven's Triple Concerto
The BBC Proms always like to keep everyone guessing until the season is announced, but thanks to the website of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, one of the 2011's highlights is known already. The first of the orchestra's two concerts includes Beethoven's Triple Concerto with a mouthwatering trio of soloists: Renaud and Gautier Capucon, with Martha Argerich as the pianist. とBBC Proms の最初の夜に，Beethoven's Triple Concerto を豪華メンバーでやるそうです．
Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 , 18 July. Full details tbc.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado last brought his great, hand-picked orchestra to London in 2007, so their return in autumn will be eagerly awaited. Full details have yet to be finalised, but Bruckner's Fifth Symphony is the main work in both concerts. 2007年以来久しぶりにClaudio Abbado がLucerne Festival Orchestra を連れてLondonで2回演奏会を開くようです．
Royal Festival Hall, London , 10 and 11 October.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The world's oldest orchestra and its music director Riccardo Chailly have become regular visitors to London's Barbican, and clock in for their longest stay yet with a complete cycle of the Beethoven symphonies in five concerts.
The world's oldest orchestra and its music director Riccardo Chailly が Deethoven cycles をやり，5夜で交響曲9曲をやるそうです．
Barbican, London SE1 , 25 October - 3 November.
日本でも同程度のことが出来るとは思いますが，新作オペラを含めてこれだけ揃えてとなるとなかなか大変だろうとおもわれます．
The best classical music for 2011
From Simon Rattle's ubiquitous performances to a sneak preview of the BBC Proms, Andrew Clements looks forward to a year of classical treats
Peter Maxwell Davies rehearsing with the BBC Philharmonic. Photograph: Christopher Thomond
Peter Maxwell Davies
In 1999, Peter Maxwell Davies completed his theatre piece Mr Emmet Takes a Walk – and he made it known that it would be his last foray into the world of opera and musical theatre. For almost a decade afterwards, he kept to that promise, composing as feverishly as ever, but concentrating particularly on chamber music, and especially on the series of 10 Naxos Quartets that occupied him between 2001 and 2007.
But with that project out of the way, the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York came up with the idea of a joint commission for a theatre piece that would be performed in both cities, with casts made up of students from each establishment. For Davies, who has made a point of writing music for young performers throughout his career, right back to the early 1960s when he taught music at Cirencester Grammar School, it was an offer he couldn't refuse. The work he has come up with, Kommilitonen!, will be presented first at the RAM, before travelling to the Juilliard in November.
David Pountney (who wrote the libretto for and directed Mr Emmet, as well as Davies's earlier full-length work for Welsh National Opera, The Doctor of Myddfai) has again provided the text and will direct both stagings. Though Young Blood is given as the official alternative to the German title, Kommilitonen actually translates more accurately as "fellow students". In a work expressly intended for students to perform, Pountney has created a dramatic structure that interlocks three stories of 20th-century student political action: from Nazi Germany, from China during the Cultural Revolution, and from the US during the civil rights movement of the 1960s. All three stories are brought together in the final scenes.
The German narrative follows the story of the Die Weisse Rose (already the subject of a successful opera, by German composer Udo Zimmermann), a group of students at the University of Munich during the early 1940s, led by Sophie and Hans Scholl, who organised non-violent protests against the Third Reich until they were convicted of high treason and guillotined in 1943.
The Chinese element concerns two characters, Wu and Zhou, who found themselves on opposite sides of the Cultural Revolution; while the US strand isthe celebrated story of James Meredith, who fought against segregation and racial prejudice to become the first black student to enrol at the university of Missouri, an event that proved to be a turning point in the civil rights struggle.
Royal Academy of Music, London (020-7873 7300; www.ram.ac.uk; booking opens 17 January), 18-25 March.
The Pollini Project
In a series of five recitals, the great Maurizio Pollini charts the history of keyboard music across three centuries, beginning with Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and ending with Stockhausen's Piano Pieces – and including, en route, recitals devoted to sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.
Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 (0844 875 0073; southbankcentre.co.uk), 28 January; 15 and 26 February; 29 April; 25 May.
Anna Nicole
The premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's new opera, with a libretto by Richard Thomas, based on the life of American model and sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith who died in 2007. Richard Jones's staging promises sex, extreme language, drug abuse and a troupe of pole dancers.
Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020-7304 4000; roh.org.uk), 17 February – 4 March.
After strictly rationing his British appearances for a decade, Simon Rattle is everywhere in 2011. He brings the Berlin Philharmonic to London for four concerts; conducts the LSO in Bruckner and Messiaen; returns to the CBSO for Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde; and renews his partnership with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Haydn and Mozart.
With the Berlin Philharmonic at the Barbican, London EC2 (020-7638 8891; barbican.org.uk) and Southbank Centre, London SE1 (0844 875 0073; southbankcentre.co.uk), 20-23 February. With the LSO at the Barbican on 7 March. With the CBSO at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham (0121 780 3333; thsh.co.uk) on 12 June. With the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall, London, 21 June.
Intermezzo
Scottish Opera mounts a rare British production of Richard Strauss's most autobiographical stage work, with its music director Francesco Corti conducting a production by Wolfgang Quetes, and Roland Wood and Anita Bader as the warring conductor Robert Storch and his wife Christine.
Theatre Royal, Glasgow (0844 871 7647), 26 March, 30 March and 2 April; Festival theatre Edinburgh (0131-529 6000), 7 and 9 April.
Seven Angels
Luke Bedford and Glyn Maxwell's chamber opera reinterprets Milton's Paradise Lost as a contemporary ecological parable. It's a joint production between the Opera Company and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, directed by John Fulljames and conducted by Nicholas Collon.
CBSO Centre, Birmingham (0121-767 4050), 17 and 18 June.
Die Walküre
Mark Elder may one of the few great Wagner conductors of our time still to conduct a Ring cycle, but he is gradually working his way through the tetralogy in concerts with the Hallé. After starting with Götterdämmerung in 2009, he's going back to the second opera, dividing it across two evenings, and prefacing the first act with a specially commissioned prologue.
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (0161-907 9000; mif.co.uk), 15 and 16 July.
Beethoven's Triple Concerto
The BBC Proms always like to keep everyone guessing until the season is announced, but thanks to the website of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, one of the 2011's highlights is known already. The first of the orchestra's two concerts includes Beethoven's Triple Concerto with a mouthwatering trio of soloists: Renaud and Gautier Capucon, with Martha Argerich as the pianist.
Royal Albert Hall, London SW7 (0845 401 5040), 18 July. Full details tbc.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado last brought his great, hand-picked orchestra to London in 2007, so their return in autumn will be eagerly awaited. Full details have yet to be finalised, but Bruckner's Fifth Symphony is the main work in both concerts. Royal Festival Hall, London , 10 and 11 October.
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
The world's oldest orchestra and its music director Riccardo Chailly have become regular visitors to London's Barbican, and clock in for their longest stay yet with a complete cycle of the Beethoven symphonies in five concerts.
Barbican, London SE1 (020-7638 8891; barbican.org.uk), 25 October - 3 November.
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