Reviews

The first day of the Carmel Bach Festival offers plenty of attractions, including an insightful master class, imitation-gut strings, and chats with some of the performers.

In San Francisco, that hotbed of world-class guitar performances, a new series is born; Mobius Trio and The Living Earth Show were featured in the wide-ranging inaugural concert.

With a nod to Bach, the thematic link behind this season’s Music@Menlo Festival, Christopher Froh and friends took an audience on an exhilarating tour of percussive possibilities.

Benjamin Britten’s moody Turn of the Screw, based on the Henry James novella, compels and produces shudders at the same time.

Piazzolla, de Falla, even Paganini all sing out in a sweet violin-plus-guitar CD, Histoire du Tango, by the terrific Augustin Hadelich and Pablo Sáinz Villegas.

The Danish String Quartet made its West Coast debut at Music@Menlo with a concert of one ravishing performance after another.

Full-on piano artistry from all hands (and there were many) marks Music@Menlo’s initial outing in its summer series.

Pocket Opera's Merry Wives of Windsor hits all the right notes, it makes a small company shine big.

American Bach Soloists present Heinrich Biber’s rarely performed, 53-section Missa Salisburgensis, raining glory on all the performers.

In an outstanding concert at the Carmel Bach Festival, Thea Musgrave’s new paean to J.S. Bach was both rich and exciting.