Previews

Joshua Bell shows up a fair amount in the Bay Area, but let’s not get blasé about that. A Bellconcert is still a good reason to bestir yourself to get tickets and make a trip. 

A feast of operatic traditions is served up by top-flight musicians from many cultures, in a rare and hopeful collaboration.

The French Quartet Ebene plays film music and classic rock for a new classical crowd.

The second mainstay opera of SFO’s season to feature equally strong alternating casts, this Tosca, thanks to the company’s shrewd General Director David Gockley, gives us the dueling divas Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the composer/conductor who until recent years led the Los Angeles Philharmonic, brings to the Pacific shore the same Philharmonia Orchestra whose many recordings with some of the greatest conductors of the latter 20th century have achieved legendary status.

The Oakland East Bay Symphony concludes the national election work week with all American composers.

This Sunday, the prodigiously accomplished David Requiro joins forces with the excellent pianistRoy Bogas for a recital that leads off a fantastic season of concerts at the Crowden School intheir Sundays@Four series.

This Sunday, the prodigiously accomplished David Requiro joins forces with the excellent pianistRoy Bogas for a recital that leads off a fantastic season of concerts at the Crowden School intheir Sundays@Four series.

Other Minds, in collaboration with Cal Performances, is putting on a major retrospective of Conlon Nancarrow’s music this weekend. It’s music that, as Frank Zappa said, “will kill you.” (And he meant that in a good way.)

“Improv queens” the Real Vocal String Quartet, on deck Nov. 14 at Salons at the Rex, is classically trained but embraces many musical idioms.