Posts Tagged ‘Gabriel Faure’
Accomplished 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 MoreGallic Delights from the San Diego Symphony Under Johannes Debus
Given the San Diego Symphony’s current season without a music director, the presence of guest conductor Johannes Debus conducting an all-French program this past weekend (November 11 & 12) provided welcome uplift . . .
Read MoreThibaudet and Symphony Members Offer Sumptuous Repast of French Chamber Music at Copley Symphony Hall
French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet interpreted chamber music of Francis Poulenc and Gabriel Fauré in collaboration with San Diego Symphony instrumentalists Sunday (October 8) at the Jacobs Music Center downtown . . .
Read MoreHausmann Quartet Plays Haydn and Fauré on San Diego Bay
The Hausmann Quartet opened its second season of string quartet concerts–the Haydn Voyages–on January 22 on the Berkeley ferryboat in San Diego Harbor . . .
Read MorePianist Hélène Grimaud’s Astonishing Artistry
Of budding young piano virtuosos there is surely no shortage. The number of promising performers who understand how to program creatively, however, remains distressingly small. Hélène Grimaud’s stunning Thursday (Dec. 1) recital for the La Jolla Music Society could easily serve as a master class in insightful programming . . .
Read MoreA Spiritual Journey With Messiaen As Guide
Among the few pivotal works of chamber music from the first half of the last century, nothing touches Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” for its combination of radical technique and sumptuous beauty. Written under grim conditions—in 1941 the composer was a prisoner-of-war in a German stalag near Dresden—it is nevertheless an audacious…
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