Reviews

Ken Iisaka - January 23, 2018

Following the connections in Stephen Hough’s recital program for San Francisco Performances, was almost as engaging as his playing.

Nicholas Jones - January 22, 2018

A pair of one-act operas range from the restrained to the flamboyant.

Tysen Dauer - January 22, 2018

Britten’s brilliant Violin Concerto outshines the rest of the 20th-century program.

Rebecca Wishnia - January 22, 2018

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

Jeff Kaliss - January 22, 2018

Playing music suggested by W. Kamau Bell, the orchestra showed an inspiring willingness to experiment.

Steven Winn - January 19, 2018

S.F. Symphony’s stripped-down staging highlights the operetta’s strengths and weaknesses.

Jessica Balik - January 15, 2018

The piano wizard brings out the best in the San Francisco Symphony in a program that ranged from the playful to the cerebral.

Jim Farber - January 12, 2018

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

Niels Swinkels - January 9, 2018

An absorbing medieval music concert refreshes and uplifts while not shorting the entertainment side of things.

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.