Posts Tagged ‘Maurice Ravel’
Thibaudet, Ling, and the San Diego Symphony Collaborate for the Cause of American Music
Maestro Jahja Ling brought the San Diego Symphony season to a close Friday (May 27) with a program devoted to American music and featuring the virtuoso French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Read MoreMozart’s Charming Triple Piano Concerto Takes Center Stage at the San Diego Symphony
Music for multiple pianos occupied the San Diego Symphony Saturday (Jan. 30) as the orchestra’s Upright and Grand Piano Festival entered its final week . . .
Read MoreGetting the Inside Picture of Mussorgsky and His Greatest Score
Under the direction of guest conductor Karina Canellakis, the San Diego Symphony offered a stirring, gorgeously detailed and smartly disciplined account of Mussorgsky’s “Pictures from a Exhibition” Saturday . . .
Read MoreNothing Borrowed or Blue for This Stylish ‘Rhapsody’
Opening the San Diego Symphony’s month-long celebration of the piano—Upright and Grand—Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin set a delectably high standard . . .
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 . . .
Read MoreBrilliant Performance to What End?
22-year-old piano virtuoso Nikolay Khozyainov’s glittering recital of brilliant piano showpieces Saturday (Jan. 31) at La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium raised a number of questions . . .
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