Rebecca Wishnia

Ensemble for These Times presents a marathon concert of contemporary art songs, some successful, some not.

Witold Lutosławski’s 50-year-old Cello Concerto has its first San Francisco performances.

Salonen’s approach was particularly apt on a new work from Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

Soloist Carey Bell is masterful in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto.

Six genre-defying works reveal the composer’s restless intellect.

Brilliant performances often outshine the material in this program featuring three premieres.

Violinist Karen Gomyo gives a nuanced performance of a Shostakovich concerto.

Violinist Yu-Chien Tseng makes his local debut in a Barber concerto.

Liaison Baroque Ensemble plays new and old works for Helia Music Collective.

In three works from the 1980s and ’90s, SFCMP shows Carter’s more genial side.