Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
Splendid Mozart String Trio by Mainly Mozart Festival Chamber Players
No doubt some obscure Mozart pieces should remain so, but not the Divertimento in E-flat Major, K 653, a string trio presented in all its glory at Thursday’s (June 11) Mainly Mozart chamber music concert . . .
Read MoreParker and Francis Open Mainly Mozart Festival at Balboa with Panache
Newly minted Mainly Mozart Festival Music Director Michael Francis and keyboard wizard Jon Kimura Parker catapulted the packed Balboa Theatre audience into an ebullient mood Saturday . . .
Read MoreStellar Duo of Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt Play La Jolla
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt offered a remarkable and stimulating duo recital Saturday (May 9) for the La Jolla Music Society pairing Bela Bartók’s First Violin Sonata (1921) with Anton Webern’s Four Pieces, Op. 7 (1910) and surrounding them with more familiar sonatas by Mozart and Brahms . . .
Read MoreGreat Schubert But Only Modest Mozart
Music Director Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony gave a lucidly detailed and energetically paced account of Franz Schubert’s “Great” C Major Symphony Sunday . . .
Read MoreAndrás Schiff, Aristocrat of the Piano
Pianist András Schiff stopped by La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium Friday (Feb. 20) evening to amuse and enlighten his loyal San Diego followers with a traditional program of sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. . .
Read MoreDream Cast Soars in San Diego Opera’s Stunning Mozart Production
Beethoven dismissed the theme of Mozart’s Don Giovanni as too frivolous for consideration, but philosophers and theologians have treated the opera as a treasure close to Divine revelation. San Diego Opera’s stunning production of “Don Giovanni” at Civic Theatre not only made an air-tight case for the opera’s dramatic potency, but offered a roster of accomplished singers who gave Mozart his due and then some . . .
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