Pianist Hélène Grimaud (from the San Francisco Symphony Web page for her recital)
Hélène Grimaud is an impressively diverse pianist. At the beginning of San Francisco Symphony’s last season, she was the piano soloist in the performance of George Gershwin’s three-movement “Concerto in F,” written in 1925 the year after his best-known “Rhapsody in Blue.” This season she will return to Davies Symphony Hall to perform a solo piano recital. This will be a “back to the classics” program consisting of only two piano sonatas from the Classical period.
Both of these will be “last sonatas.” The program will begin with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Opus 111 sonata in C minor. The intermission will be followed by Franz Schubert’s D. 960 in B-flat major. It would not be understatement to call this a “monumental” program, leaving me to wonder whether Grimaud will have any energy left for one or more encores!
This program will be given only one performance in Davies Symphony Hall, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 10. Tickets may be purchased through the Web page for this event, and the Box Office can be reached by calling 415-864-6000. As usual, tickets may also be acquired at the Box Office, which is at the entrance to Davies on the south side of Grove Street, between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street.
