Cirque Musica with the San Francisco Symphony

Von Brenden Guy, 10 Juli 2012

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, am 6 Juli 2012

Rimsky-Korsakow, The Tale of Tsar Saltan: The Flight of the Bumblebee

Mussorgsky, Nacht auf dem kahlen Berge

Dukas, Der Zauberlehrling

Holst, The Planets Op.32: no.1 "Mars"

Copland, Rodeo: Hoedown

Tschaikowsky, Violinkonzert in D-Dur, Op.35

San Francisco Symphony

Sarah Hicks, Musikalische Leitung

Kathleen Sloan, Violine

Cirque Musica

Full symphonic grandeur from Salonen and the SF Symphony

Lois Silverstein, 6th October

Sayaka Shoji and Salonen remain in close dialogue in a riveting performance of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto.

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Finnish footprints in San Francisco: Salonen conducts Sibelius

Lois Silverstein, 14th March

As the news breaks that Esa-Pekka Salonen will be leaving at the end of his San Francisco Symphony tenure, he conducts the music of his fellow Finn, Jean Sibelius.

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Hail and farewell: MTT’s last Mahler in San Francisco

Cameron Kelsall, 25th January

After 50 years of performances with the San Francisco Symphony, including a quarter-century tenure as Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas chooses Mahler’s Fifth Symphony for his final subscription concert.

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Bach-inspired Mendelssohn in San Francisco

Edward Sava-Segal, 17th February

An exquisite rendition of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang makes one wonder why the work is not part of the regular repertoire.

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MTT offers familiar and unfamiliar Stravinsky in San Francisco

Edward Sava-Segal, 29th September

In a program including both modernist and neoclassical works, Michael Tilson Thomas and the SFO emphasized the common traits characterizing Stravinsky's entire ouevre.

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A phenomenally multi-layered Mahler 3 in San Francisco

Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, 29th June

Michael Tilson Thomas, Sasha Cooke, and choristers from the Pacific Boychoir and San Francisco Chorus come together in a phenomenal performance of Mahler's all-encompassing Third Symphony.

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Brenden Guy

British clarinetist Brenden Guy is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He currently resides in San Francisco as an active performer and arts publicist.