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The San Francisco Symphony: An innovative programme but with few surprises

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Reviewed at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco on 8 January 2012
Liszt, Prometheus, S 99
Ligeti, Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 1 in G minor "Winter Daydreams", Op.13
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
Christian Tetzlaff, Violin
Full symphonic grandeur from Salonen and the SF Symphony
****1
Finnish footprints in San Francisco: Salonen conducts Sibelius
****1
Hail and farewell: MTT’s last Mahler in San Francisco
****1
Bach-inspired Mendelssohn in San Francisco
****1
MTT offers familiar and unfamiliar Stravinsky in San Francisco
****1
A phenomenally multi-layered Mahler 3 in San Francisco
*****
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