by Robin Wirthlin | May 15, 2013 | Concert Reviews
One reliable sign of spring is the annual programming of preview concerts for the Midsummer Mozart Festival, whose Music Director is George Cleve, in the Noontime Concerts™ (“San Francisco’s Musical Lunch Break”) series at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral. Every summer Cleve...
by Robin Wirthlin | Apr 16, 2013 | Concert Reviews
As I recently wrote in my preview piece, the One Art Ensemble is a trio consisting of pianist Hillary Nordwell, violist Alexa Beattie, and soprano Ann Moss. The name comes from the title of a poem by Elizabeth Bishop (“One Art”), which they encountered when it was...
by Robin Wirthlin | Mar 5, 2013 | Concert Reviews
Pianist Ivan Sokolov may be a champion of the most advanced forms of abstract modernism in Russia (coming from not only Russian composers but also those from Western Europe and the United States); but the program he prepared for today’s Noontime Concerts™ recital...
by Robin Wirthlin | Jan 29, 2013 | Concert Reviews
The French pianist and composer Charles-Valentin Alkan never figures in Marcel Proust’s monumental In Search of Lost Time. Indeed, in the context of those seven volumes, it is unlikely that either Alkan himself or any mention of him would be encountered along either...
by Robin Wirthlin | Jan 22, 2013 | Concert Reviews
This month’s French Music Festival in the Noontime Concerts™ (“San Francisco’s Musical Lunch Break”) series at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral continued today with a recital by cellist Victoria Ehrlich, whose focus was on the twentieth century. She presented the sonatas of...
