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- | # Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra with Steven Isserlis at Miner Auditorium, October 8, 2014 | ||
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- | [Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra](http:// | ||
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- | [Miner Auditorium](http:// | ||
- | [SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA](http:// | ||
- | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | ||
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- | ## Tentative Program | ||
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- | * Mozart: Symphony No. 33 in B-flat Major, K. 319 >> replaced with Haydn: Symphony No. 57 in D major | ||
- | * Boccherini: Concerto No. 7 in G Major for Violoncello, | ||
- | * C.P.E. Bach: Concerto in A Major for Violoncello, | ||
- | * Haydn: Symphony No. 67 in F Major | ||
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- | ## Set One | ||
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- | [8:00 PM tuning; lights down] | ||
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- | ### Haydn: Symphony No. 57 | ||
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- | Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): | ||
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- | 01. [8:03 PM] Adagio – (Allegro) | ||
- | 02. [8:11 PM] Adagio | ||
- | 03. [8:21 PM] Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio | ||
- | 04. [8:26 PM] Prestissimo | ||
- | [work ends 8:30 PM] | ||
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- | ### C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Major | ||
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- | [8:34 PM tuning] | ||
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- | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): | ||
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- | 01. [8:36 PM] Allegro | ||
- | 02. [8:43 PM] Largo con sordini, mesto | ||
- | 03. [8:51 PM] Allegro assai | ||
- | [work ends 8:58 PM] | ||
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- | ## Set Two | ||
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- | [9:22 PM lights down, announcements] | ||
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- | ### Boccherini: Cello Concerto No. 7 | ||
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- | Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805): | ||
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- | 01. [9:26 PM] Allegro | ||
- | 02. [9:35 PM] Adagio | ||
- | 03. [9:39 PM] Allegro | ||
- | [set ends 9:44 PM] | ||
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- | ### Dmitry Kabalevsky: unidentified dance for solo cello | ||
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- | 01. [9:44 PM] Dmitry Kabalevsky: unidentified dance for solo cello | ||
- | [work ends 9:47 PM] | ||
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- | [9:49 PM; tuning] | ||
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- | ### Haydn: Symphony No. 67 | ||
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- | Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): | ||
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- | 01. [9:51 PM] Presto | ||
- | 02. [9:57 PM] Adagio | ||
- | 03. [10:05 PM] Menuetto & Trio | ||
- | 04. [10:08 PM] Finale: Allegro di molto -- Adagio e cantabile | ||
- | [show ends 10:15 PM] | ||
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- | ## Performers | ||
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- | ### Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra | ||
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- | [Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra](http:// | ||
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- | * Paul Avril: horn; | ||
- | * Elizabeth Blumenstock: | ||
- | * Danny Bond: bassoon; | ||
- | * Phoebe Carrai: cello; | ||
- | * David Daniel Bowes: viola; | ||
- | * Lisa Grodin: principal viola; | ||
- | * Paul Hale: cello; | ||
- | * Maria Ionia Caswell: viola; | ||
- | * R.J. Kelley: principal horn; | ||
- | * Katherine Kyme: concertmaster, | ||
- | * Tyler Lewis: violin; | ||
- | * Anthony Martin: principal second violin; | ||
- | * Nicholas McGegan: conductor, music director; | ||
- | * Carla Moore: violin; | ||
- | * Maxine Nemerovski: violin; | ||
- | * Ellie Nishi: viola; | ||
- | * Gonzalo Ruiz: oboe; | ||
- | * Marc Schachman: principal oboe; | ||
- | * Andrew Schwartz: bassoon; | ||
- | * Sandra Schwartz: violin; | ||
- | * William Skeen: cello; | ||
- | * Timothy Spears: contrabass; | ||
- | * Noah Strick: violin; | ||
- | * Tanya Tomkins: principal cello; | ||
- | * Hanneke van Proosdij: harpsichord; | ||
- | * Jolianne von Einem: violin; | ||
- | * Lisa Weiss: violin; | ||
- | * Gabrielle Wunsch: violin; | ||
- | * Laurie Young Stevens: violin; | ||
- | * Kristin Zoernig: principal contrabass. | ||
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- | ### Steven Isserlis | ||
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- | * [Steven Isserlis](http:// | ||
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- | ## Notes | ||
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- | Tonight' | ||
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- | As often happens, the opening symphony from Haydn offered many surprising stops, twists and turns, for such is the nature of Haydn' | ||
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- | Second on tonight' | ||
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- | For the second half of the program I moved downstairs to sit next to my mom and her friend Monique in row G towards stage right -- a far better spot to watch Isserlis, and much more engaging than my original seat in the balcony. I noticed that while Isserlis had music open on a stand before him, he hardly glanced at it, playing mostly with his eyes closed, or casting his head back and eyes heavenward as if to pull the score into memory and through his fingers as they flew across the fretboard of the violincello. Sublime! If I had to pick nits, I'd say that the Boccherini concerto was a bit light-weight compared to the Bach, and probably ought to have remained in the first set rather than being swapped into the second, but no one asked for my opinion before making that switch. | ||
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- | The final symphonic work was also quite good, though without Isserlis, my ears naturally shifted back to listening to the sonority of the PBO and trying to follow the various melodic lines that danced through Haydn' | ||
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- | Stephen Ledbetter' | ||
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- | Stephen Smoliar posted an informative [review](http:// | ||
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