With Järvi conducting, the orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances under MTT.
The vocalist is a once-in-a-generation talent, as she again shows in a concert at Cal Performances.
Davidsen, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s reigning divas, shows complete mastery in a varied recital at Cal Performances.
Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil in the great composer’s 2023 trumpet concerto, HUSH.
The Oakland percussionist’s album-release concert at the Freight & Salvage unites the community in music.
Bryan brings together diverse works from a dozen different contemporary composers who represent the global African diaspora.
There’s a theatrical bent to the two big works on the lineup: Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths and Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars.
The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.
Under conductor Eun Sun Kim, the Rachmaninoff-heavy concert also includes composer Nico Muhly’s latest work.
Two of the Bay Area’s premier small ensembles team up for a program that dwells on the netherworld between waking and dreams.
