Reviews

Schwabacher Debut Recitals are tricky business; singers can be challenged to explore a range of colors and depth of intimacy to which their still-developing technique may not be ideally suited.

The American Bach Soloists, conducted with excellence by Jeffrey Thomas program works that demonstrate Bach's mastery of "parody" — making things old new again.

For a young ensemble, the Escher Quartet plays with exceptional sensitivity and refinement.

The S.F. Chamber Orchestra's presents Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and Stephen Saxon’s Luck or Wisdom? as a musical meditation on human fate.

The S.F. Ballet launched its second mixed bill of the season with a tasty buffet that included Natalia Makarova's La Bayadère included Christopher Wheeldon’s Ghosts and Yuri Possokhov’s Firebird.

Program 2 at the S.F. Ballet moves from a rather rote Tears onto delight in From Foreign Lands and a radiance in Borderlands. 

Techno savvy Composer Machover streams a “worldwide” opera <em>Death and the Powers</em>.

At Mondavi Center, cellist Jay Campbell and accompanist Conor Hanick present works that stand on their own, without reference to musical history and influence.

A fuller than usual crowd gathered for the Santa Rosa Symphony concert on Sunday afternoon. One reason may have been the "Sons of the Fjord" program.

The glory and grandness of Puccini and the heart-rending Butterfly of Cecilia Violetta López is on display at the Opera San José.