The San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas are in the midst of a nine-city European tour through September 14 that features music of Mahler, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Schoenberg, Ives, Cowell, and John Adams. The tour began at Usher Hall in Edinburgh, where the orchestra performed Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations (Op. 43b), Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and John Adams’s Absolute Jest, the latter commissioned by the SFS and featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet performing with the orchestra. Pianists Yuja Wang and Jeremy Denk join the tour for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (Wang) and Cowell’s Piano Concerto (Denk). The tour takes the orchestra to London, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Lucerne, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, and Paris, as well as Bucharest, where they will perform George Enescu’s La Voix de la nature at the George Enescu Festival.
Posted September 1, 2015
