SFS: Elgar & Rachmaninoff
Fri 07/14/2023 7:30 PMhttps://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2022-23/Elgar-Rachmaninoff-FROST
https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/july-2023/elgar-rachmaninoff
Featuring Anna Rakitina, conductor | Denis Kozhukhin, piano
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar welcomes you into his inner circle with the enchanting musical portraits of the Enigma Variations, performed here by the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Anna Rakitina. Pianist Denis Kozhukhin takes on Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 2, a work imbued with dazzling athletics and glittering lyricism.
https://sfsymphony.encoreplus.app/posts/123210/program-notes7
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18
Enigma Variations, Opus 36
Sergei Rachmaninoff (谢尔盖·拉赫玛尼诺夫)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff
Edward Elgar (爱德华·埃尔加)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar
Denis Kozhukhin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Kozhukhin
Anna Rakitina
has been the BSO’s Assistant Conductor since September, 2019. Recent second-prize winner at the Malko Conducting Competition in Denmark, Anna Rakitina has degrees from the Moscow Conservatory in both musicology and conducting, with a graduate diploma in conducting from the Hochschule Hamburg, received in 2018.
Night in Bohemia with the SFS
Fri 07/08/2022 7:30 PMhttps://live.stanford.edu/calendar/july-2022/night-bohemia-sf-symphony
Cellist Johannes Moser joins conductor Erina Yashima and the SF Symphony to perform Édouard Lalo’s Spanish-flavored Cello Concerto while the Orchestra takes center stage in Antonín Dvořák’s euphoric Eighth Symphony.
Rapture & Reverie with the SF Symphony
Fri 07/22/2022 7:30 PMhttps://live.stanford.edu/calendar/july-2022/rapture-reverie-sf-symphony
Pianist Inon Barnatan joins conductor Ludovic Morlot and the SF Symphony for the virtuosic thrill and soaring Romanticism of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. George Gershwin’s An American in Paris takes up a jaunty ride through the City of Light while Maurice Ravel’s Boléro hypnotizes with visions of Spain
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Opus 43
Inon Barnatan Piano
An American in Paris
Bolero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_on_a_Theme_of_Paganini
Xian Zhang Conducts the SF Symphony
Saturday, August 7, 2021https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/august-2021/xian-zhang-conducts-sf-symphony
Xian Zhang, conductor; George Li, piano
Xian Zhang, who made her professional debut conducting Le nozze di Figaro at the Central Opera House in Beijing at the age of twenty, currently serves as the music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. At Frost she conducts the SF Symphony in a program of Still and Mozart, with the Piano Concerto performed by pianist George Li.
