Finnish footprints in San Francisco: Salonen conducts Sibelius

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony

Lisa Batiashvili, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the San Francisco Symphony

Par Lois Silverstein, 15 mars 2024

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“Batiashivili remained the centrifugal force, precise and assertive”

Critique faite à Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, le 14 mars 2024

Sibelius, Finlandia, poème symphonique pour orchestre, Op.26

Sibelius, Concerto pour violon en ré mineur, Op.47

Sibelius, Symphonie no. 1 en mi mineur, Op.39

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Direction

Lisa Batiashvili, Violon

San Francisco Symphony

Le San Francisco Symphony offre à Paris un Mahler poétique

Constance Clara Guibert, 18th March

Poétique plus que métaphysique, le Mahler de Michael Tilson Thomas et du San Francisco Symphony a largement convaincu le public de la salle Pleyel ; l'excellence de l'orchestre et la beauté des voix ont compensé sans peine l'apparente sobriété de l'interprétation pour transporter les auditeurs.

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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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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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Lois Silverstein

Lois Silverstein, PhD, a New Yorker born and bred, has lived and worked in San Francisco for over 35 years. Her eight books include novels, poems, essays and memoir; she also writes reviews for OperaWire. After numerous roles in San Francisco Opera as a supernumerary, she performed her one-woman, multimedia show about a freedom fighter in 1939, during the fall of Poland, Valia: The Story of a Woman of Courage. Her newest novel, When Crying Stops: War Echoes from Romania, will be published in 2024.

Finnish footprints in San Francisco: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Sibelius