David Bratman

An atmospheric symphonic poem, a tribute to tango master Astor Piazzolla, and a movie-music-style piano concerto mark a Cabrillo mixed bill.

A passionate, Romantic Brahms sextet headlines a Music@Menlo program that also features Vivaldi, Bach, and a rarely heard Clara Schumann work.

With considerable creativity and stamina, pianist Alessio Bax plays a demanding program of Brahms, Enescu, and Bartók.

The eyes have it (the ears, too) in Symphony Silicon Valley’s attention-getting concert.

An ingenious technical kinetic/musical work strives for profundity, but lacks the “wow” factor listeners might have expected.

Four players, or three: Every work came up a winner in this Music@Menlo recital, capping off its season.

Mission Chamber Orchestra of San José plays all the music that fits, and then some, in its latest outing at Le Petit Trianon.

Celebrating two decades of adventurous programming and fine playing, the San José Chamber Orchestra under Barbara Day Turner’s direction presents a feast, including three premieres.

Musicians from Marlboro tours are a chance to catch these artists when they’re mostly still young and little-known. The San Jose Chamber Music Society brought them to Le Petit Trianon in downtown San Jose on Wednesday, for an immensely vivid evening.

The Calder Quartet, with pianist Gloria Cheng, offered a concert that presented contrasts, alternating visions of hell, cryptic smiles, and a program promising doom and gloom ... all of which added up to a positively cathartic experience.