The Santa Rosa Symphony’s music director bows out with a strong reading of Mahler’s epic Ninth.
Composer-in-residence Katherine Balch’s world premiere and Haochen Zhang’s pianism raised the stakes.
Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.
Two singers matched up well, dramatically and vocally at the Broad Stage.
The vibrant L.A. festival showcases challenging new works by composers working on the edge.
The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.
Conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier's arrangement of Daphnis et Chloé is the highlight.
Deprived of a Ted Hearne premiere, Gustavo Dudamel still led a fascinating concert, soon to be reprised in London.
The premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Pollux contrasts with Varèse's Amériques.
The Passion of Ramakrishna was the main event in a concert that featured a piece by Glass mentor Ravi Shankar.
