Jessica Balik

Echoes of 19th-century American music permeate works by George Crumb and Caroline Shaw.

The flute-guitar-cello trio finds surprising new voices in old music and in newly minted commissions.

BSO’s music director led the orchestra and cello through a program of impressive firsts.

A nostalgia-tinged program contrasted an intriguing, new American composition with Mahler’s Fourth.

The vibrant program showcased brilliant new compositions and outstanding musicianship.

The S.F. Symphony, with soloists Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, and Luca Pisaroni, navigated the challenging work in the orchestra’s season finale.

The audience jumps to its feet for S.F. Symphony’s performance of a work that once inspired a riot.

The Sitkovetsky Trio and David Shifrin deliver an emotionally complex, vibrant program.

It’s not easy to produce a good performance of Stockhausen’s tricky, modernist masterpiece, but credit to Voices of Silicon Valley for trying.

Bass Denis Sedov and the Bay Area Men’s Chorus collaborate in Shostakovich’s masterful setting of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Holocaust epic.