Posts Tagged ‘Bartok’
The Emerson String Quartet Plays The Conrad on Their Farewell Season Tour
The La Jolla Music Society brought the Emerson String Quartet to the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center Sunday as part of the quartet’s Farewell Season tour.
Read MoreNew Yorkers Strut Their New Music at NWEAMO 2016
New York’s edgy CompCord Ensemble opened NWEAMO 2016, the latest installment of San Diego’s most established new music festival, with a boisterous concert Friday evening at the San Diego Central Library . . .
Read MoreMidori and Macdonald Triumph in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
The noted Japanese violinist Midori gave an exciting, refreshing account of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony on Friday (April 1) at Copley Symphony Hall . . .
Read MoreStellar 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 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 MoreBold and Bravura Chamber Music at Mainly Mozart
Mainly Mozart teamed the powerhouse pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and equally assertive violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the rambunctious Miami String Quartet to produce a virtual tsunami of sound at La Jolla’s Auditorium at TSRI.
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