United States Aspen Music Festival [2]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 6-8.7.2021. (HS)
Chamber music covers a wide range in Aspen’s big tent
Harvey Steiman
The Aspen Music Festival is back live with a Beethoven-heavy weekend
United States Aspen Music Festival [1]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 1-3.7.2021. (HS)
Salonen and San Francisco Symphony seeking their sweet spot
United States Various: San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 24.6.2021. (HS)
San Francisco Opera in 2021/22
An unusual 2021-2022 season for San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera’s upcoming 2021-2022 season looks very different from anything they have ever done. It is not the repertory – which consists of familiar works by Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini and a reprise of one of its more successful contemporary commissions – but the format.
Live performances in the War Memorial Opera House for the first time since December 2019 feature five fully staged operas and two concerts. For the first time in the company’s history, operas will not be run in repertory. Instead, they are spread out to allow three weeks between opera runs, a concession to COVID-19 protocols.
Hadelich’s liquid Brahms in San Francisco included his own cadenza
United States Various: Augustin Hadelich (violin), San Francisco Symphony / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 17.6.2021. (HS)
San Francisco Symphony presents barely a whiff of Czech musical sunshine
United States Martinů, Florence Price, Dvořák: John Wilson (piano), Edward Stephan (timpani), San Francisco Symphony / Joshua Weilerstein (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 10.6.2021. (HS)
Local conductor makes a strong impression with San Francisco Symphony
United States Montgomery, Simon, Bizet: San Francisco Symphony / Joseph Young (conductor). Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 3.6.2021. (HS)
Beatrice Rana and a Fabbrini piano in a room in Rome full of frescoes
Italy Bach, Debussy, Chopin: Beatrice Rana (piano), recorded exclusively for Cal Performances at Oratorio del Gonfalone, Rome, 6-7.4.2021. First streamed 13.5.2021, and available on demand through 12.6.2021. (HS)
