Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
Joyce Yang and the San Diego Symphony Triumph in the Grieg Piano Concerto
In the first program of the San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks Series, October 6, 2018, guest conductor Edo de Waart offered Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Edvard Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto in A Minor with Joyce Yang as soloist.
Read MoreEdo de Waart’s Engaging Respighi and Lang Lang’s Tepid Mozart Open San Diego Symphony Season
Guest conductor Edo de Waart led the San Diego Symphony in the orchestra’s season-opening concert on October 4 with guest pianist Lang Lang.
Read MoreThe Artistry of Emanuel Ax and Friends at La Jolla SummerFest
La Jolla SummerFest titled its Wednesday, August 22, concert “An Evening with Emanuel Ax.” But it was much better than that. It turned out to be an evening with Emanuel Ax and friends.
Read MoreBronfman Grotesquely Roars Through Mozart, Schubert and Schumann
After Friday’s uplifting, beautifully crafted opening night SummerFest concert, I was shocked to experience such a tasteless, aggressive musical assault attending SummerFest’s second concert on the following night, August 4, in UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall.
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.
Read MoreCellist Johannes Moser Thrills with Tchaikovsky “Variations on a Rococo Theme” at Mainly Mozart
If the most rewarding moments of a Mainly Mozart Festival concert can occur during the performance of music by other composers, Saturday’s (June 16) Mainly Mozart program made a great case for that possibility with Johannes Moser’s brilliant solo in Tchaikovsky’s “Variations on a Rococo Theme,” Op. 33, and Stravinsky’s sparkling “Dumbarton Oaks” Concerto.
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