Charles Dutoit Conducts Holst's The Planets, Open Rehearsal

Venue: Davies Symphony Hall
Date: Wed February 10, 2010 10:00am
City: San Francisco
Price Range: $20-35
Tickets: 415-864-6000

San Francisco Symphony

Beethoven’s majestic Emperor Concerto lives up to its name with Nelson Freire at the keyboard and Riccardo Chailly on the podium. Beethoven’s brilliant Seventh Symphony fuses the drama, whimsy, and melodic beauty of all his earlier symphonies. Wagner thought of this music as the essence of dance. Whatever Beethoven intended, this is the composer at his wildest. ". . . vivacious, sinuous music-making . . . Chailly kindled a fire that licked upwards from the classically conceived foundation to the highly dramatic conflagration of the Finale.”—Financial Times