The pairing of Bach with Shostakovich offers a study in emotional contrasts.

Students from the School of Music and Dance excel in a production-heavy performance.

James Gaffigan steers the orchestra in intriguing directions in a concert ranging from Mozart to Barber.

The U.S. premiere of a Samuel Adams concerto grosso highlights a gentle concert.

The fine quartet gives a San Jose Chamber Music Society audience a treat.

Piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms had pride of place at the San José Chamber Music Society concert.

A lively new arrangement of a Mendelssohn work for two clarinets features father-and-son soloists Jon and Alec Manasse.

Clarinetist Michael Corner shines in a Mozart concerto.

A program that also features Beethoven’s “Eroica” is profoundly personal and often moving.