Symphony Youth Orchestra review: Exciting Mahler
22.05.2012, 07:00:00
If there's anything more thrilling and heartening than hearing the young musicians of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra flaunt their considerable talents, it's hearing them do it in a virtuoso vehicle like Mahler's First Symphony. That was the... |
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Album review: Staier's Beethoven 'Variations'
20.05.2012, 07:00:00
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Classical German pianist Andreas Staier has packed not one but two revelations into his extraordinarily great new recording of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations. The more astonishing one is his performance of the work itself, which... |
S.F. Symphony review: Serene and affecting
18.05.2012, 07:00:00
The music in Wednesday night's affecting program by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offered the audience glimpses of simpler and more peaceful worlds than the ones we live in. For harried city dwellers there were the pastoral landscapes... |
N.Y. Philharmonic review: bold and brassy in S.F.
16.05.2012, 07:00:00
New York, as Frank Sinatra used to remind us regularly, is the city that never sleeps, and now I think we know why: The New York Philharmonic is keeping everyone awake. The nation's oldest and evidently loudest orchestra steamed into Davies Symphony Hall this... |
New Century Chamber Orchestra concert review
14.05.2012, 07:00:00
The New Century Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 20th anniversary over the weekend with "Happy Birthday Variations," a witty compositional parlor trick by Peter Heidrich whose title pretty much tells the story. There was also a commissioned world premiere by... |
Album review: Bjarke Mogensen, 'Accordion Concertos'
13.05.2012, 07:00:00
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) New music How's this for an improbable turn of events: The most beautiful, dramatic and sheerly irresistible disc of new music to cross my desk in months is a compilation of four Scandinavian accordion concertos. Well, believe it. In... |
S.F. Symphony review: Music of city's history
12.05.2012, 07:00:00
For a city with a rough-and-tumble reputation, San Francisco has always been wonderfully and passionately devoted to music. In between prospecting, fighting and whoring, the city's Gold Rush denizens made time to flock to performances by the latest opera... |
Peter Serkin review: A clangorous 'Diabelli'
10.05.2012, 07:00:00
At the remove of two centuries and more, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of the fact that Beethoven's music was considered thorny, difficult stuff in its day. Tuesday's recital by pianist Peter Serkin, presented by Cal Performances in Berkeley's Hertz Hall,... |
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