June 25
London Symphony Orchestra
London, Barbican Theatre
Debussy – Images
Ravel – Rhapsodie espagnole
Ravel –Piano Concerto for Left Hand (Wang)
Villa-Lobos – Choros No. 10
June 27
London Symphony Orchestra
Granada
Debussy – Images
Ravel – Rhapsodie espagnole
Ravel –Piano Concerto for Left Hand (Wang)
Villa-Lobos – Choros No. 10
June 29
London Symphony Orchestra
Granada
Ives – From the Steeples and the Mountains
Ives – The Unanswered Question
Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Wang)
Stravinsky – Firebird Ballet
June 30
London Symphony Orchestra
London, Barbican Theatre
Ives – From the Steeples and the Mountains
Ives – The Unanswered Question
Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Wang)
Stravinsky – Firebird Ballet
June 12, 2009
by Joshua Kosman,
The San Francisco Chronicle
Schubert, Berg - eloquent passion
The next time you're planning a festival of Schubert and Berg, take a page from the playbook of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Get Gil Shaham to play the Berg Violin Concerto and the remarkable Symphony Chorus to sing one of Schubert's Masses.
Then relax - because whatever else may happen, you've got a hit on your hands.
The vindication of this strategy came Wednesday night in Davies Symphony Hall, during the glorious final program of the Symphony's 2 1/2-week Dawn to Twilight festival. As before, the connections between the two composers...