Previews

Michael Zwiebach - February 13, 2013

The Assad Brothers are the preeminent classical guitar duo of the last 40 years, having set the standard for technical excellence, sensitive musicianship, and innovative repertoire choices and opportunities to see them together have been dwindling over the past few years.

Michael Zwiebach - February 13, 2013

The always-recommendable Ives Quartet is playing one of their recent commissions on this concert. 

Michael Zwiebach - February 13, 2013

The recent San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow with the bright tenor voice wowed Mozart lovers last summer with his performance of Tamino in The Magic Flute.

Michael Zwiebach - February 6, 2013

In a good production, Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s 80-minute opera Ainadamar packs one heck of a punch.

Michael Zwiebach - February 6, 2013

Pablo Heras-Casado’s mastery of contemporary-music idioms is perfect for the S.F. Symphony’s West Coast premiere of Magnus Lindberg's EXPO.

Marianne Lipanovich - February 6, 2013

Promising a feast for the senses, Opera Parallèle’s Ainadamar employs flamenco devices as it depicts incidents in the life of the murdered poet Federico García Lorca.

Janos Gereben - February 6, 2013

The upcoming SFS concerts promise a stunning week in a unique chance to hear truly massive pieces of the choral-orchestral repertoire.

Molly Colin - February 5, 2013

Styles of Baroque dance are being brought back to life by a new dance ensemble, accompanied by veteran early-music instrumentalists.

Michael Zwiebach - January 30, 2013

When Lynn Harrell and the Berkeley Symphony led by Music Director Joana Carneiro take on Witold Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto, they will be taking a trip to the dark side that balances, in a radical way, the vivacity of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, also on the program.

Michael Zwiebach - January 30, 2013

The Bay Area is so awash in great early music players, that when San Francisco Early Music Society decided to feature more local groups on their programming, it opened itself to more diversity than probably anyone but the local HIP community knew was out there.