Reviews

Richard S. Ginell - February 25, 2025

Baritone Simon Keenlyside and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova perform Mahler’s early songs with Dudamel and the orchestra.

David Bratman - February 25, 2025

In a recital for the San Jose Chamber Music Society, members of the former St. Lawrence String Quartet partner with pianist Ilya Yakushev.

Scott Cmiel - February 25, 2025

The two great masters — one on sarod, the other on guitar — play an impressive and inspiring concert.

Jim Farber - February 24, 2025

Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian’s new opera comes to the company’s Off Grand series in a brilliantly visceral production.

Josef Woodard - February 24, 2025

Violinist Janine Jansen plays Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade, and conductor Antonio Pappano leads Mahler’s First Symphony.

Jason Victor Serinus - February 24, 2025

Nussbaum Cohen takes on some fresh challenges with this recital album.

Lisa Hirsch - February 23, 2025

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the orchestra shake up The Rite of Spring, plus Daniil Trifonov delivers a dazzling romp through Prokofiev.

Harlow Robinson - February 19, 2025

Under guest conductor Matthias Pintscher, LACO plays standards by French composers with the requisite elegance and lyricism.

Jim Farber - February 18, 2025

Composer Michael Abels’s searing setting of poetry by Nikky Finney expertly balances string playing, choral singing, and recitation.

Steven Winn - February 18, 2025

Cool Britannia, a triple bill of works by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon, and Akram Khan, invites visceral reactions.