Rebecca Wishnia

With Järvi conducting, the orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances under MTT.

Bryan brings together diverse works from a dozen different contemporary composers who represent the global African diaspora.

An intimate concert offers the opportunity to hear a work by Arnold Bax, along with juvenilia by Benjamin Britten and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Two works by Hector Berlioz get the spotlight in the orchestra’s latest program, along with music by Debussy, Richard Strauss, and John Adams.

The orchestra’s former associate conductor returns to lead a heartening program that has Ray Chen soloing in Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto.

Pieces by Brahms, Alexander Zemlinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg are a seamless fit for this recital at the SF Conservatory of Music.

Divisive contract negotiations between management and musicians seem to impact the performance led by guest conductor Kazuki Yamada.

The ensemble arrives at SF Performances with a program centered around the creative struggles of Haydn, Dvořák, and Shostakovich.

Guest conductor Thomas Wilkins leads an appealing program that also includes music by William Grant Still and Leonard Bernstein.

In his own composition, the conductor turns the spotlight on the orchestra’s recently appointed principal cello, Rainer Eudeikis.