MUSIC REVIEWS
Brits and Bell Bravely Brandish Beethoven Beatifically
The storied Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Joshua Bell played Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Wieniawski in the Jacobs Music Center on Friday, March 16, 2018.
Read MoreExciting Chamber Music Performance by Musicians of the San Diego Symphony
Tuesday’s (March 6) chamber music concert at the Auditorium at TSRI presented a hearty cadre of San Diego Symphony musicians and two guest harpsichordists playing Bach, Zelenka, and Mendelssohn.
Read MoreBrahms Piano Trios Battle Copley Symphony Hall
In Saturday’s concert of all three Piano Trios by Johannes Brahms, we experienced many sublime moments.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego’s Splendid Baroque Motets and Canticles
The Friday, March 2, concert by the Bach Collegium San Diego at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Hillcrest offered the best of both worlds: one of the familiar, cherished motets by J. S. Bach and rarely heard works by Heinrich Schütz and Domenico Scarlatti.
Read MoreRevolutionary Piano Music from a Revolutionary Pianist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
In an amazing solo recital Thursday at the Balboa Theatre, Pierre-Laurent Aimard gave his account of revolutionary piano music from the last two centuries, anchored in Beethoven’s landmark Hammerklavier Piano Sonata, Op. 106, from 1818.
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Spans the Centuries Gracefully at the Maritime Museum of San Diego
Sunday (February 25), the Hausmann Quartet embarked on another year of its “Haydn Voyages: Music at the Maritime,” playing string quartets by Haydn, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Tina Tallon on the museum’s ferryboat Berkeley
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