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2023-12-29 02:31:00
Public Service Announcement: SFS/Salonen, Scriabin, Bartók Program
Davies Symphony Hall, San FranciscoNovember, 2023Photo by Lisa HirschThe San Francisco Symphony program for March 1-3, 2024, is as follows:Scriabin, Prometheus: The Poem of Fire (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano)Bartók, Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Gerald Finley, Michelle DeYoung)A few weeks ago, SFS sent around a press release with what I will call an update to the above program. The works and performers remain the same, but there are additions:THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND CARTIER PRESENT A MULTISENSORY PERFORMANCE OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN’S PROMETHEUS, THE POEM OF FIRE MARCH 1–3, 2024 A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, PIANIST JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AND CARTIER IN-HOUSE PERFUMER MATHILDE LAURENTSAN FRANCISCO, CA—The San Francisco Symphony and Cartier are pleased to announce a multisensory performance of Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, The Poem of Fire, March 1–3, 2024 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent, this collaboration marks the world […]
2022-10-04 05:22:00
San Francisco Symphony: Salonen/Mahler 2, Weston Push
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads “Symphony No. 2” by Gustav Mahler, with soprano Golda Schultz, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. At Davies Symphony on Thursday night, September 29, 2022. (Photo by Stefan Cohen)(Clearly this is "Urlicht".)A trio of reviews with a four suspected:Joshua Kosman, SF ChronLisa Hirsch, SFCVThomas May, CVNAI meant to say something about Salonen observing the pause between the first and second movements of the Mahler, and forgot. I also had a draft lede that was awfully close to what Joshua wrote, but I pulled it in an edit. I can't remember exactly why, but I'll say that I don't have enough of a sonic memory or notes on MTT's performances of Mahler or written reviews to be able to describe accurate how and why Salonen's performance differed, so I concentrated on writing about what was in front of me Thursday night.I'm expecting at least […]
2022-02-24 06:42:00
By Karl W. NehringGustav Mahler | Xiaogang Ye: The Song of the Earth. CD1 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (symphony for teneor, alto, and orchestra, text after Hans Bethge’s Die chinesischesche Flote); CD2 Xiaogang Ye: The Song of the Earth op. 47 (for soprano, baritone, and orchestra; text, Chinese poems of the Tang Dynasty). Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; Brian Jagde, tenor (Mahler); Liping Zhang, soprano; Shenyang, baritone (Xiaogang Ye); Long Yu, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon 483 7452. This release consists of two CDs. The first contains a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde (“The Song of the Earth”), a work that should be familiar to most classical music lovers. The second contains a 21st century homage to and reimagining of Mahler’s opus by the Chinese composer Xiaogong Ye (b. 1955), who had been commissioned by conductor Long Yu to compose a new symphonic work based on the same poems that Mahler had […]
2022-02-12 16:00:36
Verdi Requiem
Performance from September 11, 2021. Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Ailyn Pérez, Michelle DeYoung, Matthew Polenzani, Eric Owens.
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