Reviews

With a nod to Bach, the thematic link behind this season’s Music@Menlo Festival, Christopher Froh and friends took an audience on an exhilarating tour of percussive possibilities.

Benjamin Britten’s moody Turn of the Screw, based on the Henry James novella, compels and produces shudders at the same time.

Piazzolla, de Falla, even Paganini all sing out in a sweet violin-plus-guitar CD, Histoire du Tango, by the terrific Augustin Hadelich and Pablo Sáinz Villegas.

The Danish String Quartet made its West Coast debut at Music@Menlo with a concert of one ravishing performance after another.

Full-on piano artistry from all hands (and there were many) marks Music@Menlo’s initial outing in its summer series.

Pocket Opera's Merry Wives of Windsor hits all the right notes, it makes a small company shine big.

American Bach Soloists present Heinrich Biber’s rarely performed, 53-section Missa Salisburgensis, raining glory on all the performers.

In an outstanding concert at the Carmel Bach Festival, Thea Musgrave’s new paean to J.S. Bach was both rich and exciting.

What’s better than a wonderful, eclectic evening of chamber music played by faculty members and guest faculty at The Crowden School?

The American Bach Soloists are, as always, superbly reliably guides into the musical lineage of J.S. Bach.