The SF Symphony’s season-long focus on the varied chamber music of Igor Stravinsky continues with the composer’s “Russian Maiden’s Song.” A transcription of an aria from Stravinsky’s opera ‘Mavra,’ it is performed here by Symphony violinist Leor Maltinski and pianist Avi Downes.
Leor Maltinski, ...
The SF Symphony’s broad survey of Igor Stravinsky’s inventive chamber music visits the composer’s Concertino for String Quartet, performed by SF Symphony Associate Concertmaster Nadya Tichman, violinist Amy Hiraga, violist David Kim, and Associate Principal Cello Peter Wyrick.
Nadya Tichman & Am...
SF Symphony clarinetist Jerome Simas performs Igor Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Clarinet.
SF Symphony Principal Viola Jonathan Vinocour performs Igor Stravinsky’s Elegy for Solo Viola.
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen returns to the podium to explore majestic brass works by Renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli.
GIOVANNI GABRIELI (arr. Timothy Higgins): from ‘Sacrae symphoniae’ (ca. 1597)
Canzon per sonar septimi toni, No. 2
‘O magnum mysterium’ Canzon per sonar septimi ton...
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the SF Symphony through the dynamic, existential journey of ‘The Unanswered Question’ by composer Charles Ives.
CHARLES IVES: ‘The Unanswered Question’
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Members of the San Francisco Symphony
SF Symphony musicians perform a chamber version of Jessie Montgomery’s Strum.
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: ‘Strum’
(chamber version)
Wyatt Underhill, violin
Jessie Fellows, violin
Matthew Young, viola
Barbara Bogatin, cello
Daniel G. Smith, double bass
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins SF Symphony musicians for a chamber music program of works by Antonín Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, George Gershwin, and Bill Evans.
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK:
Piano Quintet in A major, Opus 81
Allegro ma non tanto
Dumka: Andante con moto
Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace–Trio:...
Victor Romasevich, violin
Wayne Roden, viola
David Goldblatt, cello
Marcia (Allegro)
Adagio
Menuetto (Allegretto)
Adagio—Scherzo (Allegro molto)
Allegretto alla Polacca
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Alexander Barantschik, violin
Florin Parvulescu, violin
Yun Jie Liu, viola
Peter Wyrick, cello
Lento (attacca)
Lento—Allegretto—Andante—Lento
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Gina Cooper, viola
Scott Pingel, double bass
Allegro moderato
Menuetto I: Allegretto
Adagio
Menuetto II: Allegretto
Tema con Variazioni. Allegretto
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Victor Romasevich, violin
Jill Rachuy Brindel, cello
Allegro serioso, non troppo
Adagio
Maestoso e largamento, ma non troppo lento—Presto
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Amos Yang, cello
Charles Chandler, double bass
Allegro
Andante molto
Allegro
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Helen Kim, violin
Jonathan Vinocour, viola
Sébastien Gingras, cello
Adagio—Allegro con brio
Adagio, ma non tanto, e cantabile
Scherzo: Allegro
Presto
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Amos Yang, cello
Charles Chandler, bass
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Amos Yang, cello
Charles Chandler, bass
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Wyatt Underhill, violin
Jessie Fellows, violin
Matthew Young, viola
Barbara Bogatin, cello
Calvary
Oh My Darlin' Clementine
Drink to Me With Thine Own Eyes
Shortnin' Bread
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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