Posts Tagged ‘Gabriel Faure’
Hausmann Quartet Plays Haydn and Fauré on San Diego Bay
The Hausmann Quartet opened its second season of string quartet concerts–the Haydn Voyages–on January 22 on the Berkeley ferryboat in San Diego Harbor . . .
Read MorePianist Hélène Grimaud’s Astonishing Artistry
Of budding young piano virtuosos there is surely no shortage. The number of promising performers who understand how to program creatively, however, remains distressingly small. Hélène Grimaud’s stunning Thursday (Dec. 1) recital for the La Jolla Music Society could easily serve as a master class in insightful programming . . .
Read MoreA Spiritual Journey With Messiaen As Guide
Among the few pivotal works of chamber music from the first half of the last century, nothing touches Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” for its combination of radical technique and sumptuous beauty. Written under grim conditions—in 1941 the composer was a prisoner-of-war in a German stalag near Dresden—it is nevertheless an audacious…
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