Halfway Mark, a 50th Anniversary Retrospective
Presented by Mark Alburger with members of The San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Continue readingNamik Sultanov
Works by Bach, Busoni, Chopin, Debussy and RachmaninoffHaving presented numerous pianists who have won national and international piano competitions, it is now our pleasure at Old First to present one of the singularly gifted breed of musicians who, as a teacher, has instructed and nurtured an impressive number of those talented young winners. Namik Sultanov, […]
Continue readingThe Melodiya Chamber Ensemble
Works by Eccles, Bach and SpohrThey were each Moscow born, were celebrated as child prodigies, attended that city’s School for Musically Gifted Children and later graduated with honors from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, won international music competitions, and went on to become principal musicians in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchesta, she as the harpist and […]
Continue readingBasically British X: Across the English Channel
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne by Britten; Let Us Garlands Bring by Finzi; Schéhérazade and Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Ravel; selected songs by Ralph Vaughan WilliamsChronicle critic Joshua Kosman lyricized over Tony Award winning baritone Eugen Brancoveanu’s “phenomenally resonant voice” in the same review in which he characterized soprano Elza van den Heever […]
Continue readingPéter Tóth
Sponsored in part by the American Liszt Society
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