Posts Tagged ‘Johannes Debus’
San Diego Symphony Goes for Baroque with Mandolin Virtuoso Avi Avital
Although the mandolin as a featured solo instrument is not one that symphony audiences regularly encounter, young mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital offered splendid concertos by J. S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi with the San Diego Symphony last weekend.
Read MoreJohannes Debus Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Compelling Dvořák Sixth Symphony
With the San Diego Symphony’s dazzling performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony at Friday’s concert, Dvořák lovers in Copley Symphony Hall were no doubt left swooning. Guest conductor Johannes Debus led an exuberant yet skillfully shaped account of the composer’s one mature symphony that stubbornly remains in the shadow of his mighty Eighth Symphony and beloved Ninth—the “New World.”
Read MoreJohannes Debus Conducts Stirring Tchaikovsky First Symphony with the San Diego Symphony
Guest conductor Johannes Debus again showed his conducting prowess leading the San Diego Symphony in an exciting account of Tchaikovsky’s First Symphony, as well as works by Mozart and Humperdinck . . .
Read MoreGallic Delights from the San Diego Symphony Under Johannes Debus
Given the San Diego Symphony’s current season without a music director, the presence of guest conductor Johannes Debus conducting an all-French program this past weekend (November 11 & 12) provided welcome uplift . . .
Read MoreJoyce Yang Debuts with the San Diego Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto
Joyce Yang, the much-heralded Korean concert pianist, joined the San Diego Symphony this weekend in a performance of Segei Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Having graced the roster of La Jolla SummerFest in several recent seasons, she is a known quantity here, and the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall was filled with fans of both…
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