Niels Swinkels

String compositions, drenched in emotion and brilliance, are the tasty Hungarian bill of fare in the Gold Coast Chamber Players’ latest program.

The latest Music@Menlo concert explores emotional contrasts in music, both secular and sacred.

What’s better than a wonderful, eclectic evening of chamber music played by faculty members and guest faculty at The Crowden School?

You might not expect new compositions at the Carmel Bach Festival, but you should. Director Paul Goodwin has commissioned works for the past three years, this time from Thea Musgrave.

Pianist Jonathan Biss, about to perform Schumann with the S.F. Symphony, champions him as a perpetually fascinating composer who elicits deep personal feelings.

Guest conductor Kirill Karabits conducts the S.F. Symphony in Britten’s posthumous Double Concerto, along with works by Sibelius and Honegger.

In a centennial rite, Rite of Spring gets yet another recording, this time by Simon Rattle with his Berlin Philharmonic.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra closed its 2012-2013 season with an inspired concert that included interesting and meaningful juxtapositions.

Santos, the new oratorio by Gabriela Lena Frank for the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Berkeley Symphony, shows a composer reaching the height of her considerable powers.

After decades of superb performances, the Tokyo String Quartet rings down the curtain, in its farewell San Francisco concert.