Posts Tagged ‘Tessa Lark’
SummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest 2022 Opens with a Grand Display of Virtuosity
The La Jolla Music Society’s 2022 SummerFest opened Friday with a well-performed but assemblage of unusual quartets. The festival continues through August 26, 2022, in The Conrad.
Read MoreString Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert
Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program (August 5) offered two autobiographical string quartets, Bedřich Smetana’s E Minor Quartet “From My Life” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110.
Read MoreSummerFest 2020 Signs Off with Exuberant Schubert ‘Trout’ Piano Quintet
SummerFest 2020 signed off Saturday, August 29, with a bit of J. S. Bach and Serge Prokofiev, but centered on an exuberant slalom through Schubert’s “Trout” Piano Quintet, D. 667.
Read MoreWeilerstein Gives Stunning Account of Kodály Sonata for Solo Cello at SummerFest 2020
In Friday’s online concert of SummerFest 2020, Alisa Weilerstein combined discovery and amazing virtuoso execution in Kodály’s Sonata for Solo Cello. The program also included a Mozart Violin Sonata and the Suk Piano Quartet.
Read MoreDelectable Fauré Violin Sonata Refreshes SummerFest 2020’s Cautious Standard Repertory
The sophisticated Gallic ambience of Gabriel Fauré’s First Sonata for Violin and Piano at Wednesday’s (August 26) SummerFest 2020 program proved as welcome as a cool breeze wafting from the La Jolla cove on a muggy summer afternoon.
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