MUSIC REVIEWS
Stellar Duo of Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt Play La Jolla
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt offered a remarkable and stimulating duo recital Saturday (May 9) for the La Jolla Music Society pairing Bela Bartók’s First Violin Sonata (1921) with Anton Webern’s Four Pieces, Op. 7 (1910) and surrounding them with more familiar sonatas by Mozart and Brahms . . .
Read MoreSACRA/PROFANA’S Choral Sampler of New Works
Krishan Oberoi’s choral ensemble SACRA/PROFANA brought a sampler of polished contemporary a cappella works Friday (May 8) to the Mission Hills United Methodist Church . . .
Read More‘Defiant Requiem’ a Moving Holocaust Remembrance at the Jacobs Music Center
Guest conductor Murry Sidlin presented “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín,” a concert of Guiseppe Verdi’s great Requiem surrounded by commentary about performances of this work given by Jews imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II . . .
Read MoreNot Perfect but Plenty Powerful
San Diego Opera concluded its 2015 season on Saturday, April 25, with two performances of “El Pasado Nunca Se Termina” (The Past Is Never Finished) created by the same artistic team responsible for “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna” in company’s 2013 season . . .
Read MoreKen-David Masur’s Shostakovich and Master Chorale’s Orff Something to Shout About
The young American Conrad Tao gave a spectacular performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto with the San Diego Symphony Saturday (May 2) on a concert that included an equally spectacular “Carmina burana” by Carl Orff . . .
Read MoreKjell Nordeson: Performance Art Percussion in Barrio Logan
Swedish percussionist Kjell Nordeson translated the peripatetic requirement of the orchestral percussionist into solo performance art for Fresh Sound at Bread and Salt Friday (May 1) in Barrio Logan . . .
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