Posts Tagged ‘Felix Mendelssohn’
SummerFest 2020 Offers a Moving Afternoon of Beethoven and Mendelssohn
The emotional momentum of the opening two La Jolla SummerFest 2020 concerts came to fruition Sunday afternoon, August 23, in the stirring online performance from The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreBritish Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor Makes Splendid Debut in Mozart Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s San Diego Symphony concert devoted to the music of Mozart and Mendelssohn featured guest soloist Benjamin Grosvenor in a brilliant account of Mozart’s E-flat Major Piano Concerto, K. 271, and Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony (“Reformation”) under the baton of Jun Märkl.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Offers Stirring Mozart and Middling Mendelssohn
This week’s San Diego Symphony concert featured Víkingur Ólafsson’s smart, spirited Mozart Piano Concerto in C Minor, K 491, and Felix Mendelssohn’s complete incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Op. 61.
Read MoreMichael Francis and Mainly Mozart Orchestra Illuminate Superb Mendelssohn Fifth Symphony
To headline Saturday’s opening concert of Mainly Mozart’s 2019 Festival Orchestra series, Music Director Michael Francis sagely featured pianist Jeremy Denk in a thrilling account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467.
Read MoreGuest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony
With numerous 20th-century and newer works played in the San Diego Symphony’s current “Hearing the Future” festival, I felt a sense of backsliding attending Michael Francis’s program of familiar standard repertory from the early 19th century Friday, January 18, at the San Diego Symphony.
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.
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