Orchestra

Ken Iisaka - June 26, 2017

The great pianist graced a Santa Cruz Symphony concert for the second time this year and the results were just as magical as the first.

Rebecca Wishnia - June 26, 2017

Sometimes concert extras don’t add that much.

Lisa Houston - June 19, 2017

There’s way too much on Luca Pisaroni’s plate, but that’s how it has to be with the baritione who takes the role of Frere Laurence in Berlioz’s Roméo e Juliette with S.F. Symphony

David Bratman - June 19, 2017

Meanwhile, conductor Vasily Petrenko made a meal of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony, leading the San Francisco Symphony’s weekend program.

Jessica Balik - June 12, 2017

The audience jumps to its feet for S.F. Symphony’s performance of a work that once inspired a riot.

Jeff Kaliss - May 23, 2017

The renowned conductor is in town for Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich with the S.F. Symphony.

David Bratman - May 9, 2017

California Symphony contrasted Visconti’s lyrical concerto with big-boned, dramatic works.

Steven Winn - May 8, 2017

Charles Dutoit elicited powerful, emotional music from an augmented S.F. Symphony.

Jessica Balik - May 8, 2017

Bass Denis Sedov and the Bay Area Men’s Chorus collaborate in Shostakovich’s masterful setting of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Holocaust epic.

Niels Swinkels - May 2, 2017

One of Richard Strauss’s less-performed symphonic poems pairs with Igor Levit’s masterful Schumann performance.