San Francisco Symphony just gave the world premiere of Before we fall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s new cello concerto for Johannes Moser, with Dalia Stasevska on the podium.
My behind-the-scenes feature on its creation is the current Strings magazine cover story.
Here’s Lisa Hirsch’s review for the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Thorvaldsdottir’s new cello concerto, Before We Fall, is a banger, sonically and intellectually, dense with ideas and meriting repeat hearings. It launches explosively, which is not an unusual strategy for a concerto, but don’t be misled. This isn’t a conventional soloist-versus-orchestra showdown….
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 