Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.
The violinist was on hand for Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto in a concert also featuring Brian Raphael Nabors’s Upon Daybreak.
In SF Opera’s production of Poulenc’s masterpiece, spiritual concerns are powerfully dramatized.
