MUSIC REVIEWS
Expressionist Revival at La Jolla’s soundON Festival
Saturday’s (Jan. 11) soundON Festival concert at the La Jolla Athenaeum featured three new, edgy chamber music compositions juxtaposed with Arnold Schoenberg’s now classic Expressionist gem “Pierrot Lunaire.”
Read MorePerlman Dazzles as Symphony Soloist
Pro basketball hall of famer Bill Walton may have been the tallest man at San Diego’s Jacobs Music Center – Copley Symphony Hall on Saturday night, but he was not the biggest. Instead, it was legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman who was the evening’s star attraction, dazzling concertgoers young and old, short and (very) tall with the first of two masterful weekend performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61.
Read MoreFrench Baroque Gems at St. James, La Jolla
Friday’s performance (Jan. 10) by tenor Aaron Sheehan and Musica Pacifica for the San Diego Early Music Society made a winning case for Jean-Phillipe Rameau’s distinctly French Baroque style, complementing this repertory with more familiar pieces by J.S. Bach, G.P. Telemann, and G.F. Handel.
Read MoreBoos and Bravos for 2013
At the end of our first full year of operation we thought it would be fun to provide a look back and some of the high and low-lights of the past year.
Read MoreBachCollegium’s Impressive Christmas Concert–It Was Not A Sing-Along
Anyone who has sung Christmas carols has come across the German Christmas song “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming” by Michael Praetorius. Ruben Valenzuela’s BachCollegium San Diego gave a smart concert devoted to the sacred music of Praetorius and his circle of 17th-century German composers at La Jolla’s St. James’ Episcopal Church on Friday (Dec. 20).
Read MoreLing Conducts Bold Schumann Second Symphony
This past weekend (Dec. 13 – 15) San Diego Symphony music director Jahja Ling made a compelling case for Schumann’s mighty Second Symphony in C Major, complementing it with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, featuring Russian pianist Yefim Bronfman.
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