Choral

St. Ignatius Church, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay on Lone Mountain, was the perfect spot for the San Francisco Choral Society’s performance of the Mozart Requiem.

New arrangements refresh Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder.

In a far-ranging program that covered music from the 1400s to the present, the violinist accompanied the ensemble on five pieces as part of a new program called SFCA+1.

Beethoven’s Mass becomes a staged multi-media experience, complete with light show and wandering soloists.

Volti’s Pandora’s Gift, performed with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, leaves a lasting visual impression.

The symphony, with assistance from choristers, performed the Rachmaninoff masterpiece, which is based off the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

The relatively new group Cappella SF put on a heavenly concert at Mission Dolores Basilica.

Hearing is believing: The Girls Chorus comes prepared to knock your socks off, and it usually succeeds.

The New York vocal octet brought Caroline Shaw's Pulitzer-winning Partita and a set of edgy, shorter works to the Twelfth Night Festival.

O.K., maybe you’re thinking King Wenceslas not Henry VIII, but you can usually trust California Bach Society choral director Paul Flight’s inventive programming, so don’t judge this concert by its title.