Louis Spohr hits a double but Mendelssohn crushes a surprise home run with an early piano quartet.

Meanwhile, conductor Vasily Petrenko made a meal of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony, leading the San Francisco Symphony’s weekend program.

The acclaimed young ensemble exhibit technical mastery and nuanced interpretations of Beethoven, Haydn, and Shostakovich.

Herbert Blomstedt guides a taut, inspired reading of Beethoven’s masterpiece.

In a marathon program, five performers find distinctly different musical expression in the composer’s piano studies.

New Piano Collective’s second inaugural program ranged from the sublime to the silly.

Lesser-known composers took center stage at [email protected], where real masterworks by Erno Dohnányi and Anton Arensky were shadowed by early works from Mahler and Shostakovich.

A John Adams piece featuring electric violin is at the heart of a program exploring the contemplative side of 20th-century music.

A new Jennifer Higdon suite highlights an evening of music inspired by — but not necessarily for — dancing.