Soloists Nikolas Nackley and Tonia D’Amelio straddle the spiritual and the erotic in a charged performance of two cantatas.
Pianist Tamami Honma, violinist Julian Brown, and cellist Yong-Zi Ma bring infectious joy to a program of Beethoven and Shostakovich.
S.F. Symphony’s imaginative music incubator featured exhilarating, intergenerational family duets.
The scaled-down song cycle is inspired by stories from Lydia Davis.
From von Biber’s bombastic Battalia to the subtleties of a recent Andrew Norman piece, the NCCO played everything with grace and beauty.
William Kentridge fuses physics, early modernist art, jazz-age music, and colonial history in a profound multimedia revue.
Great performances mark Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s ambitious program of two new Kurt Rhode operas.
Tod Browning’s classic film is more camp than creepy, but Philip Glass’s score still engages the imagination.
An airy afternoon of dances and a Bach concerto ends with Bartók’s spirited and spooky Divertimento.
Echoes of 19th-century American music permeate works by George Crumb and Caroline Shaw.
