The other day, I posted my tally of opera performances for 2015. Having now attended my final concert (on which, more soon), I can now safely post my tally of concert performances, and a joint list. Again, I make no particular claim for what this might show, but I find it not without interest. A composer scores one for appearing in a programme, whether that be a Mahler symphony or a Mahler song. Perhaps that benefits some composers more than others, but I am sure they will cope...
I am delighted to be able to toast this year's principal anniversary composer. as well as one of our hardiest of perennials. It has never not been Beethoven's time; now it is indisputably Boulez's time too. Perhaps more importantly still, I can point to a range of composer's music I have been able to hear over the year. Whatever silliness might be said about concert life dying and so forth, it is just silliness, nothing more.
Concerts
15 Beethoven,
Boulez
12 Schumann
10 Schubert
7 Bach, Mozart,
Schoenberg
6 Haydn, Mahler,
Stravinsky
5 Bartók, Brahms,
Ravel
4 Debussy
3 Berg, Chopin,
Poulenc, Messiaen, Tchaikovsky, Wagner
2 Bruckner,
Dvořák, Handel, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Liszt, Prokofiev, Purcell, Scarlatti,
Scriabin, Wolf
1 Thomas Adès,
Mark Andre, JC Bach, WF Bach, Samuel Barber, Lili Boulanger, Nadia Boulanger,
Busoni, (?) Byttering, Cavalli, Cornelius Cardew, Thomas Damett, James Dillon, Dowland,
Dukas, Dutilleux, John Dunstable, Duparc, Fauré, Robert Fayrfax, Christopher
Fox, Franck, Orlando Gibbons, Helen Grime, HK Gruber, GF Haas, Robert
Haecomplaynt, Reynaldo Hahn, Henry V, Mirela Ivičevič, Janáček, Betsy Jolas, Patrick
Jones, Viktor Kalabis, Matthew Kaner, Thomas Kessler, Daniel Kidane, Koechlin, Kurtág,Thomas
Larcher, Joanna Lee, Mica Levi, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg, Philippe Manoury,
Christian Mason, Mendelssohn, Tarquinio Merula, Xavier Montsalvatge, Isabel
Mundry, John Musto, Hilda Paredes, Robert Parsons, Matthias Pintscher, Plainsong,
Leonel Power, Stefan Prins, Yann Robin, Salomone Rossi, Elena Rykova, Frederic Rzewski,
Giovanni Felice Sanses, Rebecca Saunders, Scheidt, Franz Schmidt, Albert
Schnelzer, Schnittke, Gunther Schuller, Schütz, Sciarrino, Charlie Sdraulig, Sibelius,
Johannes Maria Staud, Stockhausen, Strauss, Barbara Strozzi, Josef Suk, Tallis,
Tomkins, Lina Tonia, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Shiori Usui, Claude Vivier, Johan
Wagenaar, Oliver Weber, Webern, Mieczysław Weinberg, John Woolrich, Xenakis, Na’ama
Zisser, John Zorn
Total
16 Beethoven
15 Boulez
12 Schumann,
Mozart
10 Schubert
8 Schoenberg,
Wagner
7 Bach, Bartók,
Stravinsky
6 Haydn, Debussy,
Mahler
5 Bartók, Brahms,
Ravel, Strauss, Tchaikovsky
4 Berg
3 Chopin, Handel,
Poulenc, Messiaen
2 Bruckner, Peter
Maxwell Davies, Dvořák, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Liszt, Prokofiev, Purcell,
Scarlatti, Scriabin, Wolf
1 Thomas Adès,
Mark Andre, JC Bach, WF Bach, Samuel Barber, Birtwistle, Lili Boulanger, Nadia
Boulanger, Busoni, (?) Byttering, Cavalli, Cornelius Cardew, Thomas Damett,
Tansy Davies, James Dillon, Dowland, Dukas, Dutilleux, John Dunstable, Duparc,
Fauré, Robert Fayrfax, Christopher Fox, Franck, Orlando Gibbons, Helen Grime,
HK Gruber, GF Haas, Robert Haecomplaynt, Reynaldo Hahn, Henry V, Henze,
Hindemith, Humperdinck, Mirela Ivičevič, Janáček, Betsy Jolas, Patrick Jones,
Viktor Kalabis, Matthew Kaner, Thomas Kessler, Daniel Kidane, Koechlin,
Kurtág,Thomas Larcher, Joanna Lee, Mica Levi, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg,
Philippe Manoury, Christian Mason, Mendelssohn, Tarquinio Merula, Monteverdi,
Xavier Montsalvatge, Isabel Mundry, John Musto, Hilda Paredes, Robert Parsons,
Matthias Pintscher, Plainsong, Leonel Power, Stefan Prins, Tarik O’Regan, Rihm,
Yann Robin, Matt Rogers, Salomone Rossi,
Elena Rykova, Frederic Rzewski, Salieri, Giovanni Felice Sanses, Rebecca
Saunders, Scheidt, Franz Schmidt, Albert Schnelzer, Schnittke, Gunther
Schuller, Schütz, Sciarrino, Charlie Sdraulig, Sibelius, Johannes Maria Staud,
Stockhausen, Strauss, Barbara Strozzi, Luke Styles, Josef Suk, Szymanowski,
Tallis, Tomkins, Lina Tonia, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Shiori Usui, Claude Vivier,
Johan Wagenaar, Oliver Weber, Webern,
Weill, Mieczysław Weinberg, John Woolrich,
Xenakis, Na’ama Zisser, John Zorn