Lang Lang (from the Web page for purchasing tickets to his October recital)
The first solo piano recital of the season in Davies Symphony Hall will take place at the beginning of October. Some may think that this is a bit far in the future; but, since the pianist will be Lang Lang, there is likely to be a high (and early) demand for tickets! He has prepared a “two centuries” program with an engaging breadth of diversity.
The first half of the program will be shared by two of the four major composers of the Classical period. The opening selection will be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s K. 485 Rondo in D major. This will be followed by two piano sonatas from the different ends of Ludwig van Beethoven’s career. The earlier of these will be Opus 13 in C minor, best known as the “Sonata Pathétique.” The second will then be the composer’s penultimate sonata, Opus 110 in A-flat major.
The second half of the program will present composers from two different countries. The first two are Spanish: excerpts from Isaac Albéniz’ Opus 47 Suite española and “Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor” (complaint, or the girl and the nightingale), which concludes the first of the two “books” in the Goyescas suite composed by Enrique Granados. The program will then conclude in Hungary with two compositions by Franz Liszt. The first of these will be the second (in E major) of the six S. 171a pieces collected under the title Consolations. The second will be the Tarantella that concludes the S. 162 Venezia e Napoli collection, a supplement to the second suite (Italie) in the Années de pèlerinage (years of pilgrimage) collections composed between 1835 and 1838.
The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 4. The San Francisco Symphony has created a Web page for online ticket purchases. Ticket prices range from $250 to $399. As of this writing, “prime seats” in the center Loge are no longer available. Lang Lang has been popular with San Francisco audiences, so it would be fair to say that seats in all the available sections will be “going fast!”
