Posts Tagged ‘J.S. Bach’
The Danish String Quartet Excels with Its Three B’s: Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók
The Danish String Quartet invited Friday’s audience at The Conrad to join them on the third musical journey of their “Prism Project” at the La Jolla Music Society. Starting with the serene counterpoint of J.S. Bach, the quartet seamlessly moved to Beethoven’s bold thematic freedom and culminated with Bartók’s heady release from the predictable straitjacket of tonality.
Read MoreThe Danish String Quartet Opens Its Musically Probing Prism Project at The Conrad
The Danish String Quartet returned to La Jolla Saturday, November 16, bringing a joyful, sonically resplendent Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, and the smoldering intensity of Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat Minor, Opus 144.
Read MoreWeilerstein and Payare Offer Memorable Accounts of Bloch and Strauss
Friday’s November 15 concert by the San Diego Symphony featured Alisa Weilerstein provided riveting solos in Ernest Bloch’s “Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra” and Richard Strauss’s “Don Quixote.”
Read MoreAlisa Weilerstein’s Sublime Bach Cello Suites at The Conrad in La Jolla
Alisa Weilerstein’s breathtaking recital of three J. S. Bach Cello Suites at The Conrad in La Jolla on Tuesday opened a new chapter for the San Diego Symphony. The orchestra has wisely moved its Chamber Music Series from various downtown locations to the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in the La Jolla Music Society’s acclaimed new Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreBach Collegium San Diego Brings Its Stylish Period Interpretation of the Brandenburg Concertos to East County
The eminent Bach Collegium San Diego opened its 17th season Friday, October 11, at Cuyamaca College in Rancho San Diego with an all-Bach program that lived up to the ensemble’s estimable period music performance standards.
Read MoreConductor Nicholas McGegan Leads a Triumphal Orchestral Finale to La Jolla SummerFest 2019
Following longstanding tradition, the final La Jolla SummerFest program is a chamber orchestra concert. Festival Music Director Inon Barnatan not only upheld the tradition but—as is his wont—improved upon it. Guest Conductor Nicholas McGegan led an impressive list of soloists with this exceptional chamber ensemble Friday, August 23, at The Conrad.
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