Jan 30, 2020
Each of the pieces on the Seattle Symphony program this week have very personal associations for Music Director Thomas Dausgaard. He led Grieg’s ”Peer Gynt Suite” at his professional conducting debut. He was a young cellist in a Copenhagen youth symphony when he first played the Carl Nielsen First Symphony. And...
Jan 23, 2020
There are not too many people that a symphony orchestra can call when it loses the person who was supposed to be the violin soloist and conductor of the concert coming up. That happened to the Seattle Symphony this week. Fortunately the orchestra had Rachel Barton Pine's phone number. Rachel is a baroque music...
Jan 16, 2020
Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair regularly pulls off the feat of both playing and conducting the Beethoven Violin Concerto. And he does that with a little help from his friends. Thomas tells KING FM's Dave Beck how he calls on musicians from inside the Seattle Symphony to help with a few conducting duties along the...
Jan 9, 2020
Jean Efflam Bavouzet, this week’s guest pianist at the Seattle Symphony, has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Haydn, the complete piano concertos of Mozart, and all of the Prokofiev piano concertos. His passion for the piano might seem all-consuming. But Bavouzet finds time to savor everything from great jazz to...