Reviews

Cellist Steven Isserlis teams with composer/pianist Thomas Adès to record a recital they devised of rarely heard works, playing them superbly.

A terrific threesome provided an evening of delectable works for flute, voice, and piano.

Eco Ensemble admirably delivers some unsettling, foreboding music, with a noted film-score composer present.

The welcome return visit of the Joffrey Ballet to Berkeley features a mixed bill, both moving and wondrous, and beautifully danced.

Richard Danielpour’s A Woman’s Life, an ardent and varied setting of seven poems by Maya Angelou, is an expansive an enchanting highlight on the OEBS program.

A sense of adventure and musical integrity marked the opening of a tour by Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott.

Nevabawarldapece, a new, live dance-and-music-and-spoken-word extravaganza choreographed by Robert Moses, is fitfully brilliant, yet at times hard to read.

The 18th century’s greatest musical evangelist is stunningly represented by American Bach Soloists’ rendition of the St. John Passion.

The brilliance of Emanuel Ax’s playing at Stanford is somewhat dimmed by a lidless piano and distractions around the instrument.

Walnut Creek’s California Symphony tries out a potential leader in Sean Newhouse, with two classics and a New Agey filler.