I had such an experience a few weeks ago at a performance at Lincoln Center of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz RossereviewedAlex Ross reviewed the four-concert cycle in the magazine).
November 14 2013 November 17 201313 This Austrian ensemble, long renowned for its combination of energy, exactitude, and taste, completes its six-concert cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets this week at the 92nd Street Y.
November 7 2013 November 10 201313 This Austrian ensemble, long renowned for its combination of energy, exactitude, and taste, is taking up residence at the 92nd Street Y this fall for a six-concert cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets.
She arrives at the venue just in time to watch him play her arrangement of the song, but as she watches him play, she realizes how much his priorities have changed, and leaves the concert to cycle through the city with newfound closure and a dawning smile on her face.
Last year, New World released a two-disc album of "Evidence of Things Not Seen," Mr. Rorem's self-described magnum opus, a concert-length cycle of 36 songs for four singers and piano.
(Schweitzer) West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Wednesday and Thursday) For the first two installments in its four-concert Beethoven cycle, Daniel Barenboim's excellent orchestra of young Israeli and Palestinian players as well as other Arab musicians plays five of the composer's symphonies: the First, Fifth and Eighth on Wednesday and the Third and Fourth on Thursday.
It may be heresy against the doctrine of the Gesamtkunstwerk – Wagner's idealised synthesis of all the arts – but the more one sees of concert-based cycles emanating from the north of England, the more one is led to wonder if the Ring really needs a theatre at all.
For this penultimate concert in a cycle of six, they will perform the Quartets Op. 59, No. 1, and Op.
So it is no surprise that Ms. Mitchell would come full circle, to the song, and to a concert documenting the cycle of romance.
Just slightly belatedly the Argento Chamber Ensemble is honoring "Pierrot" with "Lunar Movements," a series of six concerts juxtaposing the cycle with more recent music that bears its influence.
