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.
The energetic artist has time for music, politics, people and is always ready to get involved.
The gigantic piece is a little easier in a version with an alto part, but still, don’t try this at home.
We talk with the Italian polymath about taking on new musical directorships and creating his signature line of perfumes.
