Posts Tagged ‘violin concerto’
Shaham Shines in Prokofiev Concerto for SummerFest Grand Finale
In accord with the longstanding La Jolla SummerFest tradition, Friday’s (August 26) grand finale performance featured a chamber orchestra, with renowned violinist Gil Shaham as soloist . . .
Read MoreEdo de Waart Offers Elgar with Breadth and Eschews Victorian Pomposity
Filling in for an ailing Sir Neville Marriner, the authoritative Dutch conductor Edo de Waart served up Mikhail Glinka and Edward Elgar with breadth and evident affection . . .
Read MoreSan Diego Master Chorale & Jahja Ling Celebrate Haydn
During Jahja Ling’s tenure as San Diego Symphony Music Director, we have come to expect a major choral work in December such as Handel’s “Messiah” and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Happily, the maestro ignored that stale tradition and with the San Diego Master Chorale offered Haydn’s magnificent “Mass in Time of War,” also known by its German name “Paukenmesse” . . .
Read MoreSt. Petersburg Philharmonic Fetes Russian Music at Balboa
Listening to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra play Rachmaninoff is to step into a time machine, to enter a sonic world untouched by the anxieties and aggressive urgency of the 20th century. Friday (Feb. 28) at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego, maestro Yuri Temirkanov led this orchestra, currently touring North America, in a rewarding program of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. . .
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