Thursday's German Requiem offered yet another grand performance from the S.F. Symphony, an unforgettable one by Ragnar Bohlin's brilliant SFS Chorus, and yet something refreshingly different from other approaches.
A performer and scholar plays and talks about J.S. Bach’s French Suites, performing them on a triplet of harpsichords variously tuned. The result: hearing them better than ever.
In his second of three "Project San Francisco" appearances this year, Joshua Bell gave a recital at Davies Symphony Hall in another demonstration of superb bow control and the ability to make the audience swoon.