Steven Winn

Mezzo-soprano Kinda Scharich joins pianist John Parr in the North American premiere of a new song-cycle.

The West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Third Piano Concerto dominates the program.

Bach’s orchestral suites, masterfully interpreted.

Brahms’s colossal Violin Concerto is bookended with bombastic works by Prokofiev and Andrew Norman.

Foot-stomping, exuberant, and unabashedly sentimental, Jordi Savall’s latest musical tour is still about sensitive, extraordinary performances.

The whole was less than the sum of its parts in this ambitious reading of Beethoven's Ninth.

Anchoring his program with Brahms's Op. 116, the pianist constructed a recital of suggestive connections.

The tenor interprets French songs of erotic longing and ecstasy with authority, nuance, and passion.

A program of ravishing beauty draws from the timeless Vespro della Beata Vergine.

The mostly American program provided a fine platform for four emerging opera talents.