Posts Tagged ‘Stefan Jackiw’
SummerFest Looks for Richard Wagner’s Fingerprints in Chamber Music
“The Wagner Effect” proved a clever title for Sunday afternoon’s SummerFest concert at The Conrad. The eclectic collection of pieces performed to illustrate this concept—not so clever.
Read MoreAmazing Performances of Berio and Tchaikovsky at La Jolla SummerFest
Tuesday’s SummerFest 2021 concert featured Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, withpianist Daniil Trifonov, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and violinist Stefan Jackiw, as well as a Lucian Berio song cycle with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano
Read MoreStefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!
Read MoreSummerFest’s Sublime Spiritual Journey
Saturday’s La Jolla SummerFest program, “Songs of Heaven and Earth,” clustered major sacred works by J.S. Bach, Olivier Messaien and Gustav Mahler, a combination of composers I cannot recall appearing together on a previous SummerFest program, Both the musical progression and the spiritual journey proved unusually compelling.
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