Martian invasion threatens L.A. Philharmonic concert!
In an ambitious program featuring pipa player Wu Man, the orchestra showed power in excess, with less finesse.
Music Director Valery Gergiev showed off an orchestra in peak condition in a concert featuring flashy pianist Denis Matsuev.
Chen is the second candidate in the orchestra’s music-director search and showed many strengths in her weekend set.
Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben flirt with storytelling but hold back secrets.
An airy afternoon of dances and a Bach concerto ends with Bartók’s spirited and spooky Divertimento.
Orchestra and conductor were in top form, but Latvian violinist Baiba Skride stole the show.
Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner’s long-time love of Mexican music finds expression in a timely program.
Alasdair Neale and Marin Symphony offer a vivid program of Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Mussorgsky.
The CDMX Festival ended on a serious, new music note, with composers who are part of an international community of explorers.
