In Berkeley, the orchestra and conductor Christian Thielemann applied their unique sound to the music they’re most associated with.
Paul Huang and Danbi Um share a program for Chamber Music San Francisco, collaborating on a rarely played piece by Moritz Moszkowski.
Brilliantly cast and with stirring singing from The Clarion Choir, this concert performance takes the measure of Handel’s magnificent oratorio.
Chamber-scored morsels of the composer’s operas and the early string quartet Arcadiana highlight the program.
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.
