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By Matthew Westphal
28 Aug 2006
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| photo by Represented in Lincoln Center's "Voices and Visionaries" festival are, from top: Beethoven, Bernard Haitink, Mozart, András Schiff, Shostakovich, Valery Gergiev and Steve Reich. |
Lincoln Center in New York City will launch its 2006-07 Great Performers concert series with "Voices and Visionaries," a six-week festival (October 7-November 18) that "focuses on the distinct artistry of some of the music world's most innovative creators and interpreters."
"Voices and Visionaries" opens on October 7 with the first concert in a complete Beethoven symphony cycle performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Bernard Haitink; the cycle proceeds with four more concerts through the following Friday, October 13. The Beethoven offerings continue through the weekend with cellist Pieter Wispelwey and pianist Dejan Lazic playing the complete works for cello and piano (October 15) and Rob Kapilow giving one of his "What Makes It Great?" lectures, titled "Beethoven in Context," with the Ying Quartet on October 16. (Kapilow gives another lecture, on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 3 with pianist Adam Neiman, on November 6.)
Pianist András Schiff and his instrumental ensemble, Cappella Andrea Barca (that's Italian for "András Schiff"), play three programs of Mozart on October 18, 19 and 22, featuring Piano Concertos Nos. 9 (the "Jeunehomme"), 22-25 and 27 as well as the Symphonies Nos. 36 ("Linz"), 40 and 41 ("Jupiter").
Tireless visionary Valery Gergiev brings his own Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater to Lincoln Center for three concerts (October 23, 24 and 29) of Shostakovich symphonies. These performances — which offer the Symphonies Nos. 11 (nicknamed "The Year 1905"), 6, 12 ("The Year 1917"), 14, 8 and 13 ("Babi Yar") — complete a Shostakovich cycle at Lincoln Center which Gergiev began in the spring with the Kirov Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
Three pianists — Anne-Marie McDermott, Jeremy Denk and Sergey Schepkin — explore the music of Bach in late-night concerts in the Kaplan Penthouse on October 19, 20 and 21.
One of the piano's most singular visionaries will be celebrated with a 10-program series titled "Glenn Gould on Film" at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater. The series assembles a number of the television and film appearances the legendary Canadian pianist made (interviews as well as concert performances), along with Bruno Monsaingeon's documentaries The Alchemist and Glenn Gould: Hereafter, the latter in its New York premiere.
The other visionary whose voice is being celebrated in this festival is Steve Reich, whose 70th birthday falls on October 3. In Alice Tully Hall on October 28, the Los Angeles Master Chorale under conductor Grant Gershon performs the New York premiere of Reich's You Are (Variations) on a program that also includes Clapping Music and Tehillim. And on November 2 and 4 in the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College, the Steve Reich Ensemble revives The Cave, the 1993 video opera on which Reich collaborated with his wife, video artist Beryl Korot. These performances are part of "Steve Reich @ 70," a city-wide celebration of the composer's birthday co-produced by Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Information on and tickets for "Voices and Visionaries" is available at www.lincolncenter.org.
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