Posts Tagged ‘Paul Neubauer’
A Sumptuous Banquet of Lin’s Favorites at La Jolla SummerFest
The August 14 SummerFest concert offered an embarrassment of riches, from the warmth and allure of Joaquin Turina’s “Escena Andaluza,” to Claude Debussy’s profound yet unsentimental Cello Sonata, to Lei Liang’s extravagantly exciting new “Vis-à-vis” for Pipa and Percussion, to Gustav Mahler’s transcendent Rückert-Lieder song cycle to Alberto Ginestera’s breathtaking String Quartet No. 1.
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sunny Sunday Serenades
Festival programming that runs out of pleasant surprises is likely to overstay its welcome, so SummerFest Music Director Cho-Liang Lin came up with a pair highly unusual offerings by Britten and Elgar for Sunday’s (August 20) afternoon concert at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall . . .
Read MoreBrilliant Opening of Shostakovich Intensive in La Jolla
Friday’s (August 21) all-Shostakovich program at La Jolla SummerFest demonstrated how well the composer’s enigmatic qualities and quietly profound instincts have served him in history’s larger time line . . .
Read MoreFrom Russia with Love
As a prelude to SummerFest’s upcoming weekend of all-Shostakovich programs, Tuesday’s (August 18) SummerFest concert offered an overview of Russian music just before the Russian Revolution . . .
Read MoreSummerFest’s Baroque Bonanza
Boston’s star Baroque performer Aisslinn Nosky led a stylish program of virtuoso Baroque music on Tuesday’s (August 11) SummerFest program . . .
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