"A symphony fantastique at Davies" - Concertgebouw conquers SF

Maestro Mariss Jansons

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Mariss Jansons are on the West Coast now, which is the opposite of how European orchestra's typically find their way to Boston. Today's San Francisco Chronicle features a review of the Amsterdam-based orchestra's two performance engagement at Davies Hall. Here's a bit of the understandably gushing praise:

"Davies Hall spilled over with orchestral light - limpid and diaphanous in the finely drawn textures of Debussy's evocation of the sea, sparkling brightly in a marvelous "Don Juan," blazing to fiery life in a terrifying "March to the Scaffold" and "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" in the Berlioz. Warm amber light kept rising from the cellos. The woodwinds sent out strange, arresting pulses."

Read all of A symphony fantastique at Davies.

Mariss Jansons and The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra visit the Celebrity Series and Symphony Hall Friday evening at 8pm. Tickets are still available.