The great pianist graced a Santa Cruz Symphony concert for the second time this year and the results were just as magical as the first.
Sometimes concert extras don’t add that much.
There’s way too much on Luca Pisaroni’s plate, but that’s how it has to be with the baritione who takes the role of Frere Laurence in Berlioz’s Roméo e Juliette with S.F. Symphony
Meanwhile, conductor Vasily Petrenko made a meal of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony, leading the San Francisco Symphony’s weekend program.
The audience jumps to its feet for S.F. Symphony’s performance of a work that once inspired a riot.
The renowned conductor is in town for Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich with the S.F. Symphony.
California Symphony contrasted Visconti’s lyrical concerto with big-boned, dramatic works.
Charles Dutoit elicited powerful, emotional music from an augmented S.F. Symphony.
Bass Denis Sedov and the Bay Area Men’s Chorus collaborate in Shostakovich’s masterful setting of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Holocaust epic.
One of Richard Strauss’s less-performed symphonic poems pairs with Igor Levit’s masterful Schumann performance.