Posts Tagged ‘Rachmaninoff’
SummerFest Concert Spotlights Gems from Eastern Europe at UC San Diego
Saturday’s, August 5, SummerFest program at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall offered four stellar pianists, the exciting Miró Quartet, and the wonderful Russian soprano Lyubov Petrova . . .
Read MoreProdigy Pianist Gavin George Opens Mainly Mozart Forum on Prodigies
Mainly Mozart’s Mozart and the Mind series opened Friday (September 25) with a flashy piano recital by the 12-year-old Gavin George . . .
Read MoreMexican Orchestra Brings Rare Ponce Piano Concerto to San Diego
Because foreign orchestras from our own hemisphere are rarely heard in San Diego, Friday’s (March 13) concert by the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Méxio at the Jacobs Music Center’s Copley Symphony Hall brought a welcome change of repertory . . .
Read MoreTrifonov Takes Over in La Jolla
La Jolla Music Society opened its Celebrity Recital Series with a program by noted violinist Gidon Kremer and upcoming pianist Daniil Trifonov, although the young Russian rising star managed to rule the stage at Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreDiLisi the Crafty Soloist in Rare Timpani Concerto
One of San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling’s laudable traits is affording the virtuoso players within his orchestra opportunities to appear in solo concertos. This Friday Principal Timpanist Ryan DiLisi amazed and pleased the Copley Symphony Hall audience with his solo turn in William Kraft’s Timpani Concerto No.1 . . .
Read MoreSt. Petersburg Philharmonic Fetes Russian Music at Balboa
Listening to the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra play Rachmaninoff is to step into a time machine, to enter a sonic world untouched by the anxieties and aggressive urgency of the 20th century. Friday (Feb. 28) at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego, maestro Yuri Temirkanov led this orchestra, currently touring North America, in a rewarding program of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. . .
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