Sunday, June 18, 2023

Music I'm Listening to: Beatrice Rana with the San Francisco Symphony

I belatedly note here that I attended the June 2 performance of the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall, the last concert of the season for me. On the program were a piece called Amazon, by Gloria Isabel Ramos Triano, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and, after intermission, Schubert's Symphony in C ("The Great"). 

Beatrice Rana was the soloist in the Rachmaninoff. The guest conductor was Manfred Honeck. I enjoyed the whole program, but Rana was the highlight. She played with all the energy and precision she's recently gotten a great deal of notice for. My seat this time was somewhat further to the left than usual, which, in the end, was quite fun, as it afforded an excellent view of her fingers on the keyboard. She played an encore that I did not recognize and she didn't identify it. 



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