San Francisco Symphony review: Vivid Osmo ... SFGate: Classical Music One swallow may not make a summer, as the saying goes, but maybe two successive sightings of Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony portend a shift in the fortunes of this wonderful and undervalued piece? Hey, a guy can dream. A little over a month after the visiting... Dmitri Shostakovich ; Osmo Vänskä ; San Francisco Symphony ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Do music critics account for extraneous fa... SFGate: Classical Music Dear Mr. Kosman: It seems to me that a lot of extraneous factors could affect your perception of a concert - personal life pressures, how you're feeling, even seemingly trivial things like the weather outside and what you ate for dinner. Do you try to take... 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Do music critics account for extraneous fa... SFGate: Classical Music Dear Mr. Kosman: It seems to me that a lot of extraneous factors could affect your perception of a concert - personal life pressures, how you're feeling, even seemingly trivial things like the weather outside and what you ate for dinner. Do you try to take... 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Symphony Youth Orchestra review: Exciting ... SFGate: Classical Music If there's anything more thrilling and heartening than hearing the young musicians of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra flaunt their considerable talents, it's hearing them do it in a virtuoso vehicle like Mahler's First Symphony. That was the... Gustav Mahler ; San Francisco Symphony ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Symphony Youth Orchestra review: Exciting ... SFGate: Classical Music If there's anything more thrilling and heartening than hearing the young musicians of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra flaunt their considerable talents, it's hearing them do it in a virtuoso vehicle like Mahler's First Symphony. That was the... Gustav Mahler ; San Francisco Symphony ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Album review: Staier's Beethoven 'Variations' SFGate: Classical Music RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Classical German pianist Andreas Staier has packed not one but two revelations into his extraordinarily great new recording of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations. The more astonishing one is his performance of the work itself, which... Ludwig van Beethoven ; Classical Pianist ; Andreas Staier ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

S.F. Symphony review: Serene and affecting SFGate: Classical Music The music in Wednesday night's affecting program by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offered the audience glimpses of simpler and more peaceful worlds than the ones we live in. For harried city dwellers there were the pastoral landscapes... Michael Thomas ; Michael Tilson Thomas ; San Francisco Symphony ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

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S.F. Symphony review: Serene and affecting SFGate: Classical Music The music in Wednesday night's affecting program by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offered the audience glimpses of simpler and more peaceful worlds than the ones we live in. For harried city dwellers there were the pastoral landscapes... Michael Thomas ; Michael Tilson Thomas ; San Francisco Symphony ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Album review: Staier's Beethoven 'Variations' SFGate: Classical Music RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Classical German pianist Andreas Staier has packed not one but two revelations into his extraordinarily great new recording of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations. The more astonishing one is his performance of the work itself, which... Ludwig van Beethoven ; Classical Pianist ; Andreas Staier ; 1 year ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story