Reviews

Spot-on tuning and fine phrasing mark the concert by the New Esterházy Quartet, performing Haydn and other composers in his orbit.

Semyon Bychkov's direction of the SFS at its very best and Ragnar Bohlin's brilliant SFS Chorus gave an utterly moving War Requiem without a smidgen of sentimentality.

The aptly named annual Adler Fellows Gala Concert, "The Future Is Now," confirmed that San Francisco Opera’s year long training program prepares apprentice artists for greatness.

Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Metropolitan Opera combines a rich score, matchless orchestra, cast, and direction for a fantastic operatic odyssey.

Schubert, in various guises, is the hero of Israeli-born Shai Wosner’s piano recital for Cal Performances.

Volti continues to uncover excellent new music, but its performances, especially of a Britten classic, show that the chorus has room to grow.

The Redwood Symphony amasses large forces for a mixed bill that was mostly effective.

It was altogether fitting that the San Francisco Symphony had all those climate conditions to simulate in Richard Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony this week.

The New Century Chamber Orchestra plays new works and venerable older ones, to reveal connections and contrasts among composer pairs.

The Festival Jérôme Bel demonstrated new ways we can think across the boundaries of artist and non-artist, performer and spectator, in refreshingly fun shows at Stanford.