MUSIC REVIEWS
Jahja Ling Returns to San Diego Conducting an Inspired Shostakovich Fifth Symphony
Returning to the podium of the San Diego Symphony as Laureate Conductor, Jahja Ling presided over one of the more amazing performances of the 2017-18 season with a probing account of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov’s thrilling San Diego debut in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto.
Read MoreCamarada Goes Calypso at the Mingei in Balboa Park
Branching out from its customary programming, Beth Ross Buckley’s enterprising Camarada offered a laid-back concert of jazz-tinged calypso Sunday, April 15, at the Mingei International Museum.
Read MoreCivic Organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez: Spicing Up the Staid Organ Recital in Balboa Park
When the Spanish organist Raúl Prieto Ramírez became San Diego Civic Organist at the beginning of 2018, he made it clear that he intended to bring a fresh approach to programming, and his program Saturday evening, April 14, displayed some of his ideas for revitalizing that staid convention of the organ recital.
Read MoreAccomplished Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, Sings Rewarding Concert at All Souls’ Episcopal Church
The Choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, presented a substantial concert Friday, April 13, at All Souls’ Episcopal Church in Point Loma. The 21-voice ensemble started its California tour last week in the San Francisco Bay Area and will complete their California excursion Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles at St. James in-the-City Episcopal Church on Wilshire Blvd.
Read MoreSan Diego State University Musicians Center Stage at the Jacobs Music Center
“SDSU Live Downtown,” assembled several performing organizations from San Diego State University at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall Sunday, April 8, 2018, for a festive grand concert.
Read MoreAndrei Ioniță’s Heavenly Bach on the San Diego Symphony’s Chamber Music Series
Over the last weekend, the young Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniță thrilled San Diego Symphony audiences with his account of the Edward Elgar Cello Concerto, and his performance in Tuesday’s chamber concert in the Auditorium at TSRI proved equally rewarding . . .
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