David Bratman

Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, and … Grażyna Bacewicz get strong, urgent performances at Stanford Live.

From humor to gloom, these players can craft compelling characters with any composition.

In a cello concerto featuring a hologram soloist, the orchestra conducts something of an experiment.

Working without their late first violinist, these three musicians are bringing in collaborators to great success.

The founder of L.A. new-music group Wild Up leads a spirited concert of Americana, including Jeff Midkiff’s Mandolin Concerto.

This tour of Latin American folk styles makes an impression, along with a cool reading of Brahms’s Second Symphony.

Cellist Evan Kahn is the soloist on a higher plane for The Protecting Veil, while Stacy Garrop’s Inner Demons plumbs the depths.

The players give strong performances of Adolphe’s piece and the Romantic music filling out the concert.

The group gives a buttoned-up but enjoyable concert in its new guise.

The group’s season-opening concert features two surging string works by Mexican composers.