Rebecca Wishnia

At SF Performances, the group premieres a new quintet that has its moments, with Andres on piano.

The San Francisco Symphony plays Naïve and Sentimental Music, plus a new violin concerto with soloist Pekka Kuusisto.

There’s nothing particularly revolutionary about this new music, but Cabrillo first-timers Gabriela Ortiz and Dan Caputo stand out.

West Edge Opera makes great music of two early 20th-century masterpieces.

Stellar performances by the young cast help make this production of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera work.

With Julia Bullock as soloist, the concert scored points with songs by Margaret Bonds and an ambitious work by Reena Esmail.

The Seattle organization brilliantly realizes a double bill of operas about the Holocaust by composer Jake Heggie.

Nico Muhly’s Stranger cued a concert theme that included music by Jessie Montgomery, Benjamin Britten, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The composer’s First Symphony outshines a new concerto by Outi Tarkiainen and Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony.

Contemporary works by Christopher Stark and Laura Schwendinger soar on a shoestring at Z Space.