A poorly-coordinated performance of Terry Riley’s In C caps off the evening.
Stéphane Denève leads a compelling performance, and Gautier Capuçon is the soloist.
The oratorio comes together with excellent soloists and choral contributions.
The Santa Rosa Symphony’s music director bows out with a strong reading of Mahler’s epic Ninth.
Composer-in-residence Katherine Balch’s world premiere and Haochen Zhang’s pianism raised the stakes.
Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.
Two singers matched up well, dramatically and vocally at the Broad Stage.
The vibrant L.A. festival showcases challenging new works by composers working on the edge.
The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier's arrangement of Daphnis et Chloé is the highlight.
