SFS – May 31

May 31
Esa-Pekka Salonen & Julia Fischer

Joining Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, violinist Julia Fischer makes her long-awaited return to the San Francisco Symphony in Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Nicholas Phan, and baritone Luca Pisaroni—all regular collaborators with the San Francisco Symphony—sing in Stravinsky’s cheeky neoclassical ballet Pulcinella, which the composer called “the epiphany through which the whole of my late work became possible.”

CONDUCTOR

Esa-Pekka Salonen

SOLOISTS

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano*; Nicholas Phan, tenor*;
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone*; Julia Fischer, violin**

Igor Stravinsky

Pulcinella*

Johannes Brahms

Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 77**