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San Francisco Classical Voice Reviews SF Performances Concert With Joyce Yang
San Francisco Classical Voice critic Steven Winn says our Schnittke Piano Quintet performance with Joyce Yang stole the show on Tuesday: “Never mind the 19th-century pyrotechnics. It was the lesser-known, five-movement Piano Quintet by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) that stole the show. … Yang and the Alexander were ideally attuned to the cause.…
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SFCV Reviews Lieder Alive
San Francisco Classical Voice critic Rebecca Wishnia reviews our recent LIEDER ALIVE concert with mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich: “On Sunday, in a recital at the Noe Valley Ministry hosted by LIEDER ALIVE! — the San Francisco-based organization dedicated to art song performance — violinist Zakarias Grafilo’s arrangements for voice and string quartet helped bring Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder to life in an…
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SFCV Reviews here/after
San Francisco Classical Voice has a new review for the Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer release here/after: songs of lost voices, which features the Alexander String Quartet and Joyce DiDonato performing Camille Claudel: Into the Fire. “Heggie certainly knows the strengths of his artists. The beautiful cycle about sculptress Camille Claudel, recorded six months after…
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San Francisco Classical Voice Reviews The String Quartet at a Time of War concert
The San Francisco Classical Voice has a review from Saturday’s San Francisco Performances series “The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and his Contemporaries.” “the Alexander Quartet gave the Bartók a restrained and poised, even introverted, performance, without in any way neglecting the work’s varying moods. The march had the appropriate swagger,…
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SFCV Features Music at Kohl Mansion
This season, the ASQ will be the honorary chairs for the 30th Anniversary Season of Music at Kohl Mansion. The San Francisco Classical Voice has a quick preview of the season and a listing of the concerts and guest artists: “In that stately home in Burlingame, a glorious settings for weddings and when it comes…
