Reviews

A performance by the San Francisco Bach Choir of the B-minor Mass doesn't take advantage of a wealth of resources available in the talented group.

The Club Foot Orchestra seamlessly meshes music with film in a presentation of Fritz Lang's legendary silent movie Metropolis under a starry sky in Saratoga.

The S.F. Symphony did some marvelous multitasking over the weekend. Even as MTT and the orchestra were in Vienna, wowing audiences with Mahler’s music on the first leg of their three-week European tour, the S.F. Symphony Chorus stayed in town to perform a splendid concert.

What do Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (premiere 1689) and Manuel de Falla’s La Vida Breve (premiere 1913) have in common? West Bay Opera does not hesitate to mate such strange, albeit intimate operatic bedfellows.

The NCCO's premiere of featured composer Mark O'Connor's Elevations wasn't the concert highlight — the orchestra's rare ensemble unity made everything sound great.

In a program of difficult Bach cantatas, the singers of the Pacific Collegium — men and boys — came through impressively.

Jennifer Koh and Anssi Karttunen joined the brilliant Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg in piano trios, and duos, that knocked everybody’s socks off.

Denis Matsuev continues to move audiences with his bravura and his sensitive keyboard style.

An ingenious technical kinetic/musical work strives for profundity, but lacks the “wow” factor listeners might have expected.

Symphony Silicon Valley has fun with Stravinsky and a new work by Paquito d’Rivera, with Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse as well-matched soloists.