The Bay Area composer has written his third piano concerto, After the Fall, for the orchestra and virtuoso soloist Víkingur Ólafsson.
The orchestra’s former associate conductor returns to lead a heartening program that has Ray Chen soloing in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto.
The LA Phil, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and other organizations have scrapped or postponed a full weekend of performances.
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is brilliant in Beethoven, and the orchestra responds marvelously to Ticciati.
Sony Classical has put out a 22-CD anthology that captures the heyday of recordings devoted to this American composer.
It’s not easy to parse the composer’s ironic, often anguished music, even 50 years after his death.
