Fantastic news and cool program! It's @Junionwho work on it now, thanks for his help! A great ending, for a great concert. DactylsIV. Premiered on June 3, 2022 at the Hollywood Bowl (John Williams/Los Angeles Philharmonic) - Listen on YouTube › Unreleased Fanfare for Solo Trumpet Composed for the reopening of the David Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York City Or at least that's how I understood it. Love the sound from JW and VPO. Great! General ticket sales start on February 10, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/ViennaPhilharmonic/posts/494004222086696, https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/en/magazin/concerts-with-john-williams-and-anne-sophie-mutter-on-march-12-and-13-2022-in-the-golden-hall/6185. To have him here to conduct his own compositions live with the Vienna Philharmonic in the Golden Hall is a great honor and the source of much joy.”. The “March” from Superman filled the Golden Hall with its resplendant writing for brass; the three pieces from Harry Potter were incredibly detailed and refined, shimmering with warmth and joy; the vibrant “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from Indiana Jones was a match for the virtuosic quality of all the players (particularly woodwinds, with principal flute Karl-Heintz Schutz giving a truly excellent performance throughout the whole concert); and the “Throne Room” from Star Wars probably never sounded so right as it did between the walls of the Musikverein. He is able to effortlessly fill concert halls with his music and his presence, and large orchestras with a strong classical tradition, such as the Wiener Philharmoniker or the Berliner Philharmoniker, adore him. Fans of Music from the Movies [CANCELLED 2018], John Williams – Vienna 2022 – Concert summary, https://soundtrackfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/JohnWilliams-Vienna2022-ConcertSummary-Main-800x640-1.jpg, https://soundtrackfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/STF-Horizontal-340x55.png, © Copyright - SoundTrackFest - All rights reserved -. Williams shares Musikverein stage with Anne-Sophie Mutter and world-famous orchestra to perform iconic themes from "Star Wars", "Harry Potter", "Indiana Jones" and "Jurassic Park", among other cinematic landmarks. and maybe one of the encores (?) As regards Disney Hall has nothing planned, I think you will find that Williams has long been recognised in America as an outstanding composer and his work is performed all over the country. On Saturday 12 & Sunday 13, John Williams will be conducting the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker at the Musikverein Wien in Vienna, Austria, in two concerts that will feature Anne-Sophie Mutter performing the European premiere of the Violin Concerto #2, together with selected film music pieces. I would have preferred a program without film themes, only some encores, this time with Vienna. I wish for one of these birthday concerts he would have been invited to conduct the entire Empire Strikes Back score — it’s his best movie music, and over 2 hours. I know this wasn’t a compliment. 2022 is good proof of this, as Vienna has hosted Williams’ first concerts this year, to be followed by many others, in which he either conducts the concert in full or co-conducts. It was my own little contribution to help putting the composer’s efforts outside his more famous film career into a larger context, enhancing how much these two worlds are part of the same musical persona. Mutter will likely do an encore after the Violin Concerto and perhaps a couple more at the end the second half. “Hedwig’s Theme”, from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone . Half jokingly, half seriously, he mentioned his ‘bruised ego’ as a composer, which he retaliated by programming it in concert for the enjoyment of the audience, without the ‘distraction of the film’. Why always Marions Theme? So probably not happening, but we will see. If you keep conducting, we will keep coming to see you!”, Pictures by Marc Escauriaza and Gorka Oteiza. Definitely, but it just was recorded by DG in Boston last October, with both ASM and JW, to be released later this year as far as we know. My concern is that the horn flubbery in Princess Leia's Theme also contains serious timing issues which can't be amended, preventing this release going forward. That sounds about the right black market price after the ticket server collapses and it gets sold out. Full disclaimer: if you ask me what my favorite Williams score is, you won’t get Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Hook, Harry Potter or Superman. Case in point (as I've mentioned before): Karajan's Alpensinfonie, the live performance of which (made less than a year after the album, iirc) (from Salzburg) has only been published by some obscure Japanese label, although it's amazing and I'd buy it in a heartbeat. He also indicated that some people had commented to him if he didn’t feel too old to continue composing music for the Indy saga, and if he shouldn’t leave the baton to someone else, to which he answered: “If Harrison Ford at 79 years old can do acrobatics and ride a horse like Indy, I can compose his music with much less problems”. John Williams conducted concerts in Vienna in March 2022. It looked like the maestro was giving himself a great birthday present! May 4, 2020. There is so much beautiful what you can still hear!
John Williams returns to Vienna - March 2022 - SoundTrackFest It's a bit of a double headed animal though, that concert. ). So, with that in mind, anyone can understand why, for me, being in Vienna in March 2022 was extra significant. Report; Phenomenal sound quality and a great one to demo your system for others. Here you will find all the information you need to live your favorite Soundtracks and meet the Composers. Damn, I like this recording of Resistance a lot. -Princess Leia's Theme (SW) 02/04/2022. For as much as I treasure Williams’ film scores, I’ve always found in his concert works something deeper, a direct door to the composer’s soul, if you will. Particularly for a bit of a JW birthday celebration. 2022. Now you opened the Pandora' Box!!
Concert Works - JOHN WILLIAMS Fan Network - JWFAN 2. This has just been announced on the website of the Wiener Philharmoniker, confirming that John Williams will return to conduct the prestigious orchestra on March 12 and 13, 2022 at the Musikverein Wien in Vienna, together with his beloved Anne-Sophie Mutter, to celebrate his 90th birthday. A piece with strength, determination, energy, and marked martial character, which comes to show the tenacity and effort of the resistance to thwart the plans of the empire. However, I would be more happy if the entire concert consisted of film music. It’s music of incredible expressive power that only rarely offers the listeners a respite of lyricism, but rather challenges their perception, asking for an active participation and be part of the journey together with the soloist and the orchestra. True, but available as hard copy and on many compilations.
Links (prices to be determined 8-240€): The chairman of the Vienna Philharmonic, Daniel Froschauer, and business manager Michael Bladerer are pleased about the renewed artistic partnership with John Williams: “In addition to many legendary film music compositions, the program will feature John Williams’ Violin Concerto #2, composed in 2021 especially for Anne-Sophie Mutter. I hope I'll be able to attend this one. It’s the ‘stem cell’ of the whole piece, a terrific starting point for such a complex work. 18 of June of 2022 / in Concerts, News On April 25, 2023 at 19:30h, the New York Philharmonic will celebrate the music of Maestro John Williams with conductors Ken-David Masur and John Williams himself sharing the podium, during the NY Phil's Spring Gala 2023, at the David Geffen Hall in New York. I presume DG is going to record the concert for a future release?
The Music of John Williams - Anne-Sophie Mutter (EN) John Williams - The Berlin Concert, captured live by Deutsche Grammophon during a series of sold-out concerts, presents some of the world's best-known film music performed . I wouldn't worry too much, Star Wars Main Titles got released too. JW – always a class act, many happy returns Maestro. I love the program, but why always only the greatest hits over and over again? JW should be composing rather than partying with VPO and ASM. Having John Williams in Vienna again offered comfort and security. And if Marion's Theme this time is played with ASM, and Hedwig without, then there are no other doublings. But its next to the organ and has no view of the stage. Gorka Oteiza attended both concerts and offers us a special article exclusively for SoundTrackFest. During my childhood, my fellow countryman, the composer António Vitorino de Almeida, would make sure to remember all the viewers of his weekly television show, how Vienna was the most musical of all cities, and of how any serious student of music, younger or older, should spend some time there. 1. The Extra-Terrestrial – Flying”, a delight that the maestro conducted from memory, without a score. “I had no idea then that it would grow into such a gigantic composition, so rich in material and with such enormous emotional and expressive scope. crlbrg Celebrating the music and the art of Maestro John Williams.
John WILLIAMS John Williams in Vienna DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 483 6373 [NB ... We are doing our best to ensure that Slipped Disc is free to all readers. Or is the VP regarded as being more up market than the LSO who can read and play anything? And I look forward to the violin concerto of course! Music, and Art, as much as it needs to be thought and discussed, needs to be a source of enjoyment.
EDIT: my mistake, it was Raider's March, not Superman. Discover a way to enjoy that music live in SoundTrackFest. The main focus of these concerts was the performance of the Violin Concerto No.2, here again presented with the dedicatee soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter. It would be easier to resist if tickets were >5.000 EUR. Too similar to the Berlin program unfortunately. The concerts feature his second violin concerto and the usual Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones clips. I think I prefer the sound of Vienna over Berlin. In fact, it might be my favorite of these singles so far. As a dear and close friend put it after the Sunday concert: “I miss the images.” Very simply put and completely right.
FSM Board: JOHN WILLIAMS RETURNS TO VIENNA CONCERT in Mar '22 We were made sure of that everywhere, starting with the program (an earlier version included the Olympic Fanfare, but it eventually dropped in favor of “Flight to Neverland” from Hook), and going into every conceivable article, always presenting Williams as a cinema music maestro. Sharon Kelly. You get what I mean. Epilogue, presents a predominance of the harp, purposely placed in the first line of the stage at the conductor’s right hand, and of the soloist violinist, Anne-Sophie Mutter, placed at the left. There they re-recorded three singles: The "March of Resistance" is now available as the third and last single from the series alongside "Fawkes the Phoenix" from the film "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Sound the Bells!". He has either forgotten a part of his old work or he just wants to please his crowd with the crowd pleasers. Why always Marions Theme? He must really love it. On the other hand it really made you listen to the music as you had nothing to distract you. John Williams is a composer of the highest caliber, worthy of all this recognition. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. The second half of the program presented selections from Williams’ most famous and beloved film scores: Superman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and Star Wars. At the end of the piece, and at this point in the concert, with two and a half hours of performance behind us, we were still applauding wildly, although we were satisfied and thought that this would be the end… but we were wrong. A recording of VC no.2 by the Vienna Phil would be amazing! Apr 25 2023 John Williams at Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA Artist: John Williams , Venue: Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center , New York, NY, USA Jurassic Park Indiana Jones Main Theme Star Wars: A New Hope & End Credits Edit setlist Mar 24 2023 And he has been conducting the great U.S. orchestras for years; so why should he not conduct the VPO? February 07, 2022 The Vienna Phil has booked the birthday boy for March. FFS can that label just not do what anyone else would do? Let’s hope they will get a proper update from Vienna and DG. March 12/13 2022 By crlbrg February 7, 2022 in JOHN WILLIAMS Followers 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page 1 of 20 crlbrg Regular Poster Group: Members Joined: October 12, 2017 Posts: 311 Reputation: 376 Active: 6 hours ago Popular Post Posted February 7, 2022 So they do not want to overlap with the Berlin concert and Violin Concertos 2022 releases. Superman March. It was the turn of the block dedicated to “Indiana Jones”, and John Williams took the microphone again to first announce that next week, when he returned to Los Angeles, he was going to start working on ‘Indiana Jones 5’, something to which the venue responded with a big applause. In an interview published on his birthday in the New York Times (read more), Williams mentioned that he had less and less desire to compose for the movies, since those are projects that take him 6 months to complete and at a certain age, one has to measure what he dedicates his time to. John Williams returns to Vienna! I was there on Saturday. General ticket sales begin on February 10, 2022. Yet, it was the film composer that was welcomed to Vienna. The answer will be his Cello Concerto written in 1994. Fans can watch a preview of the concert on 2 January 2022 when it will be streamed in full on Deutsche Grammophon's online platform DG Stage. Film music has already found a space in the most prestigious concert halls in the world, and it is here to stay. Things like The lost world, Cinque's theme from amistad, Seven years in tibet, A fury suite, Jane eyre suite, a Monsignor suite, Accidental tourist, other star wars themes, the grail theme from the last crusade or another theme from that film apart from the beloved scherzo, sleepers, munich, geisha, 1941 (what a march), other themes from superman, the theme from images, The cowboys, the river. Official information:
John Williams - NY Phil - Spring Gala 2023 - SoundTrackFest Explore. So JW should have gotten the VPO to play on period instruments. March of the resistance with the Vienna players? The classically styled, brass-driven March of the Resistance underscores the heroic actions of the characters Rey, Poe, Finn and the film's other freedom fighters.". I was wondering if this is still happening, and when. It looked like the maestro was giving himself a great birthday present! YOU HAVE NO IDEA JUST HOW HISTORIC THESE CONCERTS WERE! Hopefully they play the normal orchestra arrangement of Hedwig's Theme this time. Williams and Mutter left the stage to great applause and the orchestra remained standing at their places while the audience insisted on their ovations. SoundTrackFest will keep you posted as more information becomes available about these two surprise concerts! and now March of the Resistance in February 2023. You could see absolutely nothing of the stage.
John Williams - Vienna 2022 - Concert summary - SoundTrackFest But when entering the domain of pure music, or music for the sake of music, we have only what the composer might give us as a guide map. March 12/13 2022 By crlbrg February 7, 2022 in JOHN WILLIAMS Share Followers 9 Prev 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next Page 19 of 20 Bespin Serial discographist ️ Group: Members Joined: October 3, 2013 Posts: 17,469 Reputation: 7,000 Active: 59 minutes ago Location: CANADA (Québec) Posted February 3 See, I think the playing in the Berlin Philharmonic was absolutely next level, certainly from sonic and technical standpoints. Listening to these powerhouse pieces in this hall, performed by this orchestra conducted by its composer was even more joyful than it was in 2020 and demonstrated with even more force (pardon the pun) the ripple effect that history always brings into the time we live in. The concert follows the success of the 2020 concerts, which were recognized as a recording of the best-selling orchestral album of 2020. Disney Hall in Los Angeles has nothing planned, but the Muzikverein in Vienna does. If you didn’t look closely, it was easy to miss that John Williams, who was still on stage, was talking to members of the orchestra, as if he was asking for confirmation. 1932) John Williams in Vienna The flight to Neverland (Hook) [5:15] . crlbrg Last weekend, Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March 2022, two concerts were held at the Muskverein in Vienna where John Williams conducted the Wiener Philharmoniker orchestra, with the participation of the famous violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Very well known here in the flub-forum. Will a month's notice be enough for the VPO to prepare this time? Harry's Wondrous World from "Harry Potter". UPDATE (10/2/2022): Ticket prices added and… TICKETS SOLD OUT!!! DG's entire catalogue consists of re-releases of the same things by 125421 different orchestras. In the beginning of the next section or movement, a quiet murmur is created by a gentle motion that I think of as being circular, hence the subtitle Rounds. It goes without saying that I will do my best to be there even on such a short notice (luckily it's a weekend, so much better to organize even as a quick turnaround). March 12/13 2022, Just flailing about awkwardly through life. Are you telling us your discography page has ignored them? However, when asked about concerts, his answer was completely different. It’s a completely ad-free, non-profit website devoted to the cultural promotion of the music of John Williams among musicians and listeners around the world. John Williams will turn 90 tomorrow.
Which concert had the better album release in terms of music selection? For these he doesn’t rely on cinematic inspiration, he has to go deep down inside himself and talk, through his music, about his most personal passions and suffering, be it his beloved trees, a close musical friend or the passing of a loved one. I think this concert should be for charity. It was precious to have time to explore this incredible music in depth and feel part of the creative process, to speak to John as he composed and revised the score and discover just how much he loves violin.”. Yes please. I know some of the old goats on this blog like to disparage Williams but I’ve been playing some of his pieces in their band arrangements; they are some of the richest, technically challenging, and satisfying pieces I’ve encountered. Membership benefits will include a daily digest of stories delivered to your email, and occasional exclusive offers from our partners. Well, good for them. “Fawkes the Phoenix”, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets . I'm not even demanding a physical release (well, I am, but, you know...), just make it available. Do you like music from films, games, and TV series? He loved them and planned to devote as much time to them as possible, both creating new concert works and conducting. Williams also has a pretty packed tour schedule this year but he is scheduled to conduct the Hollywood Bowl in the fall. Cristian Mandeal. Sign up for a new account in our community. With this theme, and when we had almost completed an hour, we reached the break. The remaining streaming crowd will no longer invest in long-lasting quality. Together with the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, we are excited to present two new concerts with John Williams & Anne-Sophie Mutter on Saturday, March 12 at 3:30 PM and Sunday, March 13 at 11:00 AM at the Musikverein Wien. This has just been announced on the website of the Wiener Philharmoniker, confirming that John Williams will return to conduct the prestigious orchestra on March 12 and 13, 2022 at the Musikverein Wien in Vienna, together with his beloved Anne-Sophie Mutter, to celebrate his 90th birthday. Vienna in 2020 was hands down the greatest weekend of my life (as anyone who knows me can confirm, since I never bloody shut up about it) and I'd love to head back to that gorgeous city and recapture some of that magic. I was overwhelmed by the piece and its technical difficulties at first.
SPECIAL WEEKEND: Hans Zimmer Live - Europe Tour 2022 & John Williams in ... I reckon Long Goodbye and VC #2 are shoe-ins, though.
John Williams & Vienna Philharmonic - YouTube Violin Concerto No. It is worth noting the curious story behind ‘Sound The Bells’, a piece with no cinematic links, composed in 1993 by John Williams for a tour in Japan in which he was conducting the Boston Pops. In this manner, we celebrate with John Williams and Anne-Sophie Mutter the composer’s 90th birthday.”, The director of the Society of Friends of Music, Dr. Stephan Pauly, shares the anticipation of the orchestra: “Over several decades, the music of John Williams has inspired millions of people around the world. Berlin was a highlight of my life, though, so I’ll see if I can afford tickets for this! This once-in-a-lifetime recording continues DG's celebration of the work of the multi-award-winning composer. Once the violin concerto was over, and while the audience applauded thinking that we were about to reach the intermission, Williams appeared again on stage and took the microphone by surprise to announce that Anne-Sophie Mutter had kindly agreed to offer an encore for this first part: “Love Theme” from the 1976 detective film “The Long Goodbye” directed by Robert Altman. In the first movement (“Prologue”), Williams and the Vienna Philharmonic almost danced and bounced around her, helping the soloist floating above incredibly complex textures and dark colors; “Rounds” is perhaps the most fascinating and musically rich movement, with the composer’s professed love for the vertical sonorities of Claude Thornhill in full display, upon which the violin offers yearning lyrical lines, including a melodic fragment that stirs long in the memory. and the “Imperial March” from The Empire Strikes Back, rounding out another historic performance. But most importantly, finally performing in Vienna, of all places, was the acceptance of Williams in the pantheon. As a closing thought, this brings to my mind a statement from some journalist about “Air and Simple Gifts”, composed for the first inauguration of Barack Obama. Mutter sounded really in her prime with the piece, which truly felt like an extension of her soul. I suppose they were never too keen to bring out the same programme multiple times in short succession, even if it's different recordings (especially if it isn't some repertoire work that people are already familiar with an actively seeking out multiple recordings of). A powerful piece, intense and with great energy, which squeezes the maximum power of the orchestra, especially the fabulous brass section, which offered a commendable intensity and purity of sound, especially considering the great work done so far. This is just incredible. That begs the question, which elder statesmen/women of the podium would you invite if you could do so? lucky buggers. John Williams | News | John Williams in Vienna: Neue Single zum Geburtstag des Filmkomponisten (deutschegrammophon.com). A real gem rarely heard in concert, with a wonderful sound very typical of classic film noir; melancholic and romantic, with a predominance of a melody led by the violin (which, by the way, in the original version was played by a trumpet). I thought the VPO was made up of period instruments...I mean timps without pedals, horns that fall apart, vintage wood winds that can't be used as Nimbus 2000. vintage wood winds that can't be used as Nimbus 2000. 12/11/2020. Yesterday's was fine, but in the action pieces I th. “I knew from the recording we made together for DG of my theme from Cinderella Liberty of her remarkable feeling for jazz,” Williams adds. Next, we entered into the music of the delicate and delightful “Marion’s Theme from ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark'”, relaxing the freneticism of the previous piece through its beautiful melody – one of the many that Williams has shown us he can compose -, and that the orchestra knew how to treat with the affection it deserves.
By Now the film composer, who brought numerous well-known films to life with his wonderful film music, can celebrate his birthday and his numerous awards and albums. Still, that might not be enough, which is okay because, after all, all matters of one’s innermost thoughts are even more abstract and mysterious, sometimes to himself, than music. Advanced Search. The maestro returned to the stage again to receive the audience’s gratitude and then took the baton and went up to the podium without saying a word and without introducing the theme that was going to be played.
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