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**