Posts Tagged ‘Sergei Rachmaninoff’
Edo 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 MoreFeast of Russian Music Crowns San Diego Symphony’s Summer Season at Embarcadero Marina Park South
The ritual of culminating the San Diego Symphony’s Summer Pops season with canons and fireworks punctuating Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” is too much fun for everyone involved to give it up, and Associate Conductor Sameer Patel followed tradition on Friday, August 31, at Embarcadero Marina Park South.
Read MorePianist Derek Paravicini Premieres Matthew King Concerto with Mainly Mozart Orchestra
Sunday’s Mainly Mozart concert under the baton of Music Director Michael Francis (June 10) featured the Festival Orchestra augmented by some 15 musicians from the Mainly Mozart Youth Orchestra, a Piano Concerto commissioned by Mainly Mozart, and a post intermission session in which guest pianist Derek Paravacini took themes and requests from the audience on which he improvised.
Read MoreJahja Ling Returns to San Diego Conducting an Inspired Shostakovich Fifth Symphony
Returning to the podium of the San Diego Symphony as Laureate Conductor, Jahja Ling presided over one of the more amazing performances of the 2017-18 season with a probing account of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov’s thrilling San Diego debut in Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony’s ‘Beyond the Score’ Program on Rachmaninoff Prepares Audience for Music History Exam at Next Symphony Concert
Just as Robert Indiana’s familiar 1970 Love Sculpture became an apt symbol of the 1970s, the Swiss artist Arnold Böklin’s evocative painting “The Isle of the Dead” from 1880 captured the darker, mystical imaginings of fin de siècle Europe. Sergei Rachmaninoff turned Böklin’s painting into a dark tone poem, which he also titled “The Isle of the Dead” . . .
Read MoreLang Lang Brings Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto to the Jacobs Music Center
Lang Lang’s return to the Jacobs Music Center on Sunday (February 5) was greeted with the expected fervid applause even before he and the San Diego Symphony delivered an equally passionate account of Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto . . .
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