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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote2017-03-04 06:19 am

concert review: San Francisco Symphony

Picked up my visiting brother at the airport and took him out for exquisite fried chicken and an evening with MTT. On the menu:

Incidental music by Mikhail Gnesin, very Yiddish-theatery.

Cello Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich, very Shostakovichy. (Gautier Capuçon was the growly cellist.)

Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, very thick and full sound with highly flexible tempi, as if the score had been printed on a rubber mat.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2017-03-04 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
'Yiddish theatery' sounds good to me! :o)