The famous 19th-century mezzo Pauline García Viardot wrote this work for her children and vocal students, and it still holds up today.
Mahler’s Third Symphony is an endurance test for any conductor, but at 86, Mehta is up for the challenge.
Two of the recently revived composer’s late masterpieces flourish in a recording with soprano Janinah Burnett and bass-baritone Dashon Burton.
The drummer brings her four-part multimedia suite to SFJAZZ, working with the Del Sol String Quartet and dancer Babatunji Johnson, among others.
Sam Adams’s piano concerto makes a big impression, while Esa-Pekka Salonen chivvies Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony along.
In a major recital for LA Opera, the tenor sings three world premieres dealing directly with being proudly gay.
Our intrepid Rubin Institute fellow spent a busy weekend in the city on a hill, catching five different ensembles.
The pioneering flutist and SF Symphony collaborative partner makes a masterpiece out of Marcos Balter’s imaginative work.
The music of Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, and Steven Mackey interprets the threat to California’s oldest living things.
In Variations on a Theme by FDR, composers from John Harbison to Vijay Iyer take inspiration from emblematic American stories.