Reviews

Wes Anderson’s film Moonrise Kingdom, is brimming with fine actors and classical music reflecting childhood from Britten, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, and even Hank Williams.

The latest release by ZOFO, the four-hands-one-piano performers, displays the duos unusual combination of bravura and depth.

The Salkind Piano Duo Festival gets off to a marvelous start, celebrating the golden musical age of Paris, that city of lights.

The silken strings of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra must be heard to be believed, on this exceptional recording of two beloved ballet scores.

The S.F. Symphony crowned the centennial season with the greatest symphonic warhorse of them all, The Ninth, rewarding the audience with an assured, majestic performance by MTT, the orchestra, and especially the chorus.

Nareh Arghamanyan performs piano works by Rachmaninov with passion and technical fluency, on a CD whose program notes run from problematic to sappy.

A recording of Dvořák's Zigeunerlieder showcases restraint above all in what is otherwise consummate musicianship and lovely vocalism.

In a wonderful highlight of the centennial season, the S.F. Symphony gave a great performance of Bluebeard's Castle, a masterpiece that sounds as contemporary today as it did back in 1912.

Yuja Wang tore through Rachmaninov's monumental Piano Concerto No. 3 in her most exciting and unbelievable S.F. performance yet.

Jun Kaneko’s spectacular projections and costume designs star, along with some top-rank singing, in San Francisco Opera’s delightful new production.