Chamber Music

Rebecca Wishnia - January 22, 2018

Fine performances fail to lift the music above the pleasantly familiar.

Lou Fancher - January 19, 2018

The composer’s original scores will highlight a series of multimedia stories at the Curran Theater.

Lou Fancher - January 12, 2018

Renowned pianist Menahem Pressler joins the ensemble for an all-Mozart program.

Jim Farber - January 12, 2018

Your first challenge is finding it, but that’s kind of the point, pilgrim.

Steven Winn - January 9, 2018

Soloists Nikolas Nackley and Tonia D’Amelio straddle the spiritual and the erotic in a charged performance of two cantatas.

David Bratman - December 12, 2017

Pianist Tamami Honma, violinist Julian Brown, and cellist Yong-Zi Ma bring infectious joy to a program of Beethoven and Shostakovich.

Steven Winn - December 11, 2017

S.F. Symphony’s imaginative music incubator featured exhilarating, intergenerational family duets.

Jim Farber - December 10, 2017

The scaled-down song cycle is inspired by stories from Lydia Davis.

David Bratman - November 14, 2017

From von Biber’s bombastic Battalia to the subtleties of a recent Andrew Norman piece, the NCCO played everything with grace and beauty.

Joe Cadagin - November 13, 2017

William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.