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MESMERIZING IRISH MEZZO TELLS STORIES IN WEILL SONG RECITALby Vaida Falconbridge Sunday, April 21, 2013  There were stories of fiery gypsies, dances, kisses, deep angst, unrequited love, mermaids, and headstrong young maidens. Irish-born mezzo soprano Tara Erraught told her Weill Hall audience April 21 in her lilting Irish brogue, “People ask why I pick the programs the way I do. Well, being from Irel...
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SONG CYCLES FOR CONNOISSEURSby Terry McNeill Tuesday, April 09, 2013  Elina Garanca’s April 9 Weill Hall recital was a connoisseur’s program, eschewing the more popular song literature and concentrating on mostly subtle and evocative works of Schumann, Berg and Richard Strauss.
With pianist Kevin Murphy, the Latvian mezzo soprano, famous from the opera stage as a sum...
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VADIM REPIN: STARLIGHT, SHINING BRIGHTby Steve Osborn Sunday, April 07, 2013 
Born in Siberia in 1971, violinist Vadim Repin is as Russian as they come, but he played nary a note of Russian music in his April 7 recital at the Green Music Center's Weill Hall. The closest he got was the last movement of the Janacek violin sonata, which celebrates the triumphal entry of Russian...
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TICHMAN IN COMMAND AT OAKMONT RECITALby Terry McNeill Thursday, March 14, 2013  Attending a Nina Tichman recital is a warmly familiar experience, as the Cologne-based pianist plays nearly everything in the standard literature with a professional command and artistic probity. There is sentiment in her playing but not sentimentality, attention to detail that is never fussy, and i...
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LUTOSLAWSKI PARTITA THRILLING IN MUTTER'S WEILL RECITALby Terry McNeill Saturday, March 02, 2013  Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter charmed a Weill Hall audience March 2 in a recital that eschewed popular works and elicited rapt attention from the 1,300 listeners present. Forgoing the staples of the Brahms and Beethoven sonatas, or the Franck and Prokofiev, the German artist played provocative and ex...
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SARDONIC AND LUSH RUSSIAN CELLO MUSIC IN BAVERSTAM'S UKIAH RECITALby Joel Cohen Thursday, February 07, 2013  Cellist Sebastian Bäverstam and pianist Pei-Shan Lee enthralled their Ukiah audience Feb. 7 with an all Russian program, presented as the third concert of the Ukiah Community Concerts Association's 2012-13 season.
The recital began with Prokofiev's C Minor Sonata, Op. 119, a tour de force for both...
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JONNY COMES DANCING HOME IN MILL VALLEY RECITALby John Boyajy Sunday, January 13, 2013  If you love Schumann's piano music, you would have been delighted with Jon Nakamatsu’s Jan. 13 recital in Marin's Mt. Tamalpais Methodist Church, produced by the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society. For, although Schubert and Beethoven also were on the program, this recital was all about Schumann.
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MAGNIFICAT MAGNIFIQUE IN MENKE JULANDER AGO RECITAL AT INCARNATIONby Janis Dunson Wilson Friday, January 11, 2013  Music of the Magnificat is the perfect concert theme for the closing of the liturgical year and the opening of the new, and the Redwood Chapter of the American Guild of Organists presented a wonderful program Jan. 11 in the Church of the Incarnation. This was the fifth program of the fourth season o...
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THE COMPLETE PACKAGEby Terry McNeill Friday, December 07, 2012  Listening to Anton Nel’s piano playing is similar to meeting a charming avuncular relative for a good meal – always much to savor. The Austin-based artist played a balanced and instructive recital Dec. 7 in SRJC’s Newman Auditorium as part of the College’s chamber music series.
Nel opened with a co...
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DIDONATO, THE DIVINE DIVAby John Boyajy Tuesday, November 20, 2012  Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the Baroque consort Il Complesso Barocco came to Sonoma State’s Weill Hall Nov. 20 with "Drama Queens," a concert consisting entirely of Baroque arias and instrumental works. The subtitle might well have been “How Not To Take Abuse, Infidelity, Revenge and Death Too ...
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ORGANIST CROSS PERFORMS HER WORKS AT REDWOOD AGO RECITALby Harold JulanderFriday, February 10, 2012
A “cross-section” of “angelic” compositions “krafted” by Angela Kraft Cross, virtuoso organist and composer, were presented by the artist Feb. 10 at Santa Rosa’s Church of the Incarnation.
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