Reviews

An atmospheric symphonic poem, a tribute to tango master Astor Piazzolla, and a movie-music-style piano concerto mark a Cabrillo mixed bill.

Over 20 years of making new music, Marin Alsop has taken the Cabrillo Music Festival to illustrious heights.

In the latest production of Rossini's Barber of Seville the young Merolini strut their stuff with a mix of ambition, stress, anxiety, and giddy abandonment.

A new disc of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis stands as a worthy addition to the library of Baroque opera aficionados.

Despite several performer mishaps, four singers and their accompanists valiantly presented intimate songs of love by Brahms and cohorts.

On the musical/dramatic edge, a new opera drawn from The Tempest is both vastly entertaining and a chance to hear a marvelous tenor and promising newcomer soprano.

A passionate, Romantic Brahms sextet headlines a Music@Menlo program that also features Vivaldi, Bach, and a rarely heard Clara Schumann work.

An Austrian documentary about the painstaking work of a master piano-tuner Stefan Knüpfer's year-long pursuit of perfection — to perform Bach's Art of Fugue perfectly — has reeled in several international awards.

Composers who followed in Brahms’ footsteps receive performances ranging from rewarding to thrilling.

Some fresh Italian air is provided by a new Naxos release of works by a youthful Ottorino Respighi.