San Francisco Symphony: MTT and Yo-Yo Ma in Hindemith’s Cello Concerto, with Beethoven’s Leonore No. 3 and Brahms’ First Symphony, by Steven Kruger

Paul Hindemith

The San Francisco Symphony
Davies Hall, San Francisco
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting
Yo-Yo Ma, violoncello

Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 3, Opus 72a (1806)
Hindemith - Cello Concerto (1940)
Brahms - Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68 (1876)

One happy consequence of San Francisco's famously late summers is the continuing presence of European visitors well into the fall concert season. Warm weather and serious indoor music are a rare mix, and this is the time of year to experience the best of both.  So it was no surprise last Saturday to encounter a happy swirl of German voices in the Davies Hall lobby.  In fairness to heresy, the French were also out in good humor--or at least the Belgians and Swiss--and for a very German program, too--not to mention unusual numbers of young Asian women, about which more in a moment.

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 on the Berkshire Review, an International Journal for the Arts!








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