David Bratman

The Chicago quartet is in its element with a program of recent works written expressly for the group.

Dvořák’s masterpiece shares space with a couple of unusual works in a brilliantly played concert.

Meta4 makes its West Coast debut with a fascinating concert of works inspired by the far north.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads a program of dark favorites by Modest Mussorgsky, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.

It’s a gigantic new piece that, perhaps surprisingly, is entirely at home on a program of 20th-century masterworks.

When concern over COVID cases took out half the orchestra, the weekend’s programming had to change.

The summer’s opening program lets everyone — vocalists, concerto soloists, and orchestra — shine.

Daniil Trifonov debuts the composer’s Piano Concerto, part of an off-the-beaten-path program conducted by Ruth Reinhardt.

Violinist Vilde Frang matches Mäkelä’s controlled approach in a lyrical reading of Berg’s Violin Concerto.

John Adams’s Absolute Jest is the thorny centerpiece of an upbeat concert.