The orchestra and director Donato Cabrera brilliantly interpret pieces that would have been intimately familiar to the composer.
The U.S. premiere of Felipe Lara’s Double Concerto has the two players merging avant-garde sensibilities, with Susanna Mälkki conducting.
Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens’s operatic take on The Tempest succeeds most in musical moments that depart entirely from the original.
Though the competition is formidable, Willis-Sørensen stands up to the greatest sopranos who have interpreted this song cycle.
The great trumpeter and his E-Collective group finally play a concert that was scheduled for three years ago.
The ensemble’s Cal Performances appearance brought a unique intensity to Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria and Schubert’s final quartet.
Pianist Jon Nakamatsu plays Grieg’s concerto in a program emphasizing folk styles of different ethnicities.
The annual showcase of excerpts from operatic works-in-progress confirms the future is bright for today’s composers and librettists.
The LA Phil’s latest new-music concert brought pieces delayed by or composed during the shutdown.
It’s an idiosyncratic but serious recording project, perfect for the iconoclastic player.
