A winning evening from Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott in San Francisco

By Lois Silverstein, 03 April 2024

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Reviewed at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco on 2 April 2024

Fauré, Berceuse, Op.16

Dvořák, Gypsy Songs: Songs My Mother Taught Me (Když mne stará matka zpívat), Op.55 no.4

Assad, Menino

Boulanger, Cantique

Fauré, Papillon, Op.77

Shostakovich, Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40

Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel

Franck, Cello Sonata in A major

Yo-Yo Ma, Cello

Kathryn Stott, Piano

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott soothe the soul at the Barbican

David Karlin, 2nd November

The long standing duo sound give impeccable sound and balance in a recital full of charm, whose musicianship and energy belies this being their farewell tour.

****1

Celebrating collaboration: Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 11th April

In a luminous recital, the cellist and pianist commemorate four decades of collaboration and pay tribute to Isaac Stern, the master violinist who saved Carnegie Hall from destruction.

****1

Joy amidst tears: Kathryn Stott and Tim Horton’s glorious Rachmaninov

Phil Parker, 19th May

Can you have too much Rachmaninov all in one go? On the basis of this tremendous Sheffield Chamber Music Festival recital, evidently not.

*****

Golden glow in Sir Andrew Davis' Sibelius 1 with the BBC Philharmonic

Rohan Shotton, 27th January

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar, Rachmaninov and Sibelius with pianist Kathryn Stott.

****1

A feast of phenomenal pianism

Frances Wilson, 8th October

A remarkable evening of exceptionally fine pianism and inventive programming, featuring seven of the UK's leading pianists in rich and varied repertoire.

*****

Quartet of pianists go into bat for Ravel and Rachmaninov

Rohan Shotton, 24th April

Andrew Gourlay conducts the BBC Philharmonic in piano concertos by Ravel and Rachmaninov, with Noriko Ogawa, Martin Roscoe, Kathryn Stott and Martin Roscoe taking turns at the keyboard.

****1

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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.