Dalia Stasevska at SFS

Dalia Stasevska

Photo by Veikko Kähkönen, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony

Dalia Stasevska took over last week's SFS program, one of two that Michael Tilson withdrew from. (Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the other, which is in a couple of weeks.) I was extremely enthusiastic about her, and like pianist Seong-Jin Cho a lot. Reviews:

• Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle. Total agreement about looking forward to hearing how many strings she has in her bow. 
• Lisa Hirsch, SFCV. I really should have mentioned that this was also the third recent go-round for the Beethoven: Yefim Bronfman with Salonen season before last (I think) on the program with the Kongsberg Variations and Bruce Liu, subbing for Hillary Hahn on Rafael Payare's program last year. Liu played it like late Mozart, a defensible approach; Bronfman with great depth and profundity, looking forward.
• DB at Kalimac's corner