Wednesday 1 January 2020

Opera and concert tally for 2019





Wonderful to have attended so many concerts of contemporary music this year, not least in order to welcome so many women composers to the list, some for the first time. No apologies for Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart, et al.; nor for four absorbing encouters with the music of Helmut Lachenmann, although it was at least as delightful to add to them three with the music of Olga Neuwirth.

Beethoven, Wagner 11

Mozart 10

Haydn, Schumann, Strauss 6

Bach, Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky 5

Bartók, Berlioz, Handel, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Prokofiev, Puccini, Schubert, Stockhausen 4

Boulez, Debussy, Dvořak, Janáček, Liszt, Messiaen, Olga Neuwirth, Rameau, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Varèse 3

Anahita Abbasi, Benjamin, Berg, Bruckner, Cage, Elgar, Peter Eötvös, Franck, Henze, Purcell. Rebecca Saunders, Wolf 2

Hans Abrahamsen, Louis Andriessen, Birtwistle, Berio, Annesley Black, Blow, Britten, Cherubini, Chopin, Anne Cleare, William Cole, Chaya Czernowin, Dallapiccola, Dukas, Enescu, Falla, Ashley Fure, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, Gershwin, Glinka, Gérard Grisey, Martin Grütter, Alexandre Guilmant, Emily Hall, Gavin Higgins, Toshio Hosokawa, Dani Howard, Gottfried Huppertz, Betsy Jolas, Kodály, Korngold, Stephan Koncz, Thomas Larcher, David Lang, Philip Lawton, Oliver Leith, Lutosławski, Philippe Manoury, Vicente Martin y Soler, Martinů, Benedict Mason, Mendelssohn, Cathy Milliken, Monteverdi, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Mussorgsky, Otto Nicolai, Nono, Mithatcan Öcal, Offenbach, Guillem Palomar, Paisiello, Poulenc, André Previn, Rachmaninov, Sunleif Rasmussen, Johann Adam Reincken, Hermann Reutter, Rossini, Rzewski, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, Salieri, Jonathan Scott, Tom Scott, Scriabin, Donghoon Shin, Sibelius, Valentin Silvestrov, Miroslav Srnka, Josephine Stevenson, Stravinsky, Giles Swayne, Telemann, Ustolvskaya, Errollyn Wallen, Weber, Webern, Stevie Wishart, Xenakis, Zemlinsky, Vito Žuraj 1