The premiere of Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth is timely in many ways.
Witold Lutosławski’s 50-year-old Cello Concerto has its first San Francisco performances.
Jon Kimura Parker makes light work of a challenging Brahms piano concerto.
Salonen’s approach was particularly apt on a new work from Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
The massive symphony, with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, was set off by Kaija Saariaho’s precise Trans.
The peripatetic cellist chats with SFCV about taking artistic risks and his own development.
Conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong shows his stuff in symphonies from Mozart and Mahler.
Soloist Carey Bell is masterful in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.
The composer’s third David Bowie homage falls flat.
The epic work shines in this new recording under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas.
