Reviews

Mark Streshinsky's West Edge Opera has done it again, making up for a tiny budget with huge imagination and amazing excellence, in its current production of The Manga Flute.

In its first performances since the Ballet San Jose's recent upheavals, a mixed bill offers mixed results, but cause for hope.

Sound worlds are fervently explored at the 17th iteration of a new-music festival.

An indefatigable keyboard artist plays the “B”s out of Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók.

The NCCO, under Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, pushes the margins a little bit further with an illuminating program featuring two contrasting, yet ultimately congenial, mandolin concertos.

Swell sounds, and the sound of swells, highlight an intriguing recital by a Dutch wind quintet.

An appealing program pairs a flutist with a guitarist, performing classical and jazz works in their own vivid arrangements.

Taking cues from the first surviving copy of St. Matthew Passion, The ABS presents a fresh, more intimate rendition of extraordinary beauty and power.

Beloved Bach variations receive a full-on orchestral treatment, to joyous and memorable effect.

A familiar Beethoven symphony works at cross-purposes with two rarities by European Jewish composers.