Reviews

The plot may be melodramatic, but the truthfulness about music-making makes Yaron Zilberman’s new film, with its star-studded cast, an excellent example of music in film. 

In Wozzeck's return to the Bay Area, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen led London’s Philharmonia Orchestra in the kind of brilliantly authoritative performance that left no doubt as to the enduring power of Alban Berg’s masterpiece.

There were many beautiful moments in Kate Royal’s recital, some offered unqualified success, others made clear that are still lessons to be learned.

Emanuel Ax and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are brilliantly matched, offering a set from Beethoven’s middle period.

The opening night concert at Oakland's Paramount Theatre for the OEBS officially celebrated Democracy, in tune with the recent national election, and aptly symbolized in the programming.

Benjamin Verdery brandishes his guitar in open and inviting ways, in both familiar songs and insightful commissioned works.

The Calder Quartet filled in at the San Jose Chamber Music Society in a program of fairly severe pieces that push, in one way or another, at the edge of the quartet idiom practice of their time.

That keyboard artist Jean-Yves Thibaudet works his magic on Debussy’s impressionistic and orientalist works.

A performance by ARTefact provides an exercise in expectation affecting perception, which becomes the highlight of the concert.

Sponsored by Other Minds and a team of organizations including Cal Performances, the concerts celebrating Conlon Nancarrow's 100th at UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall were a scene of fascination.