Posts Tagged ‘Brahms’
Bronfman Grotesquely Roars Through Mozart, Schubert and Schumann
After Friday’s uplifting, beautifully crafted opening night SummerFest concert, I was shocked to experience such a tasteless, aggressive musical assault attending SummerFest’s second concert on the following night, August 4, in UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
Read MoreMainly Mozart 2018 Concludes with Majestic Mendelssohn and Heroic Haydn
Mainly Mozart’s final concert of the 2018 season featured the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Michael Francis in a program of Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn.
Read MoreBrits and Bell Bravely Brandish Beethoven Beatifically
The storied Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Joshua Bell played Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Wieniawski in the Jacobs Music Center on Friday, March 16, 2018.
Read MoreMurray Perahia: the Pinnacle of Piano Performance
In a transcendent solo recital in La Jolla on April 24, pianist Murray Perahia exhibited stellar technique and profound insight . . .
Read MorePianist Paul Lewis Balances Introspective Brahms and Flashy Liszt in Solo Recital
Pianist Paul Lewis gave a polished, if unexceptional, recital of familiar repertory Friday (March 11) for the La Jolla Music Society in Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreGrimaud and Nézet-Séguin Collaborate in Muscular Ravel Piano Concerto
The program headlined the Rotterdam Philharmonic, but I daresay most of the La Jolla Music Society’s audience Friday at Copley Symphony Hall came to see the exuberant French-Canadian conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin . . .
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