Previews

Always a seasonal highlight, the annual joint holiday concert of the Stanford Symphonic Chorus and the Peninsula Symphony, will this year feature a typically vivid pairing.

Chamber Music Day Live + Free is the signature event of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music. 

Joshua Bell shows up a fair amount in the Bay Area, but let’s not get blasé about that. A Bellconcert is still a good reason to bestir yourself to get tickets and make a trip. 

A feast of operatic traditions is served up by top-flight musicians from many cultures, in a rare and hopeful collaboration.

The French Quartet Ebene plays film music and classic rock for a new classical crowd.

The second mainstay opera of SFO’s season to feature equally strong alternating casts, this Tosca, thanks to the company’s shrewd General Director David Gockley, gives us the dueling divas Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the composer/conductor who until recent years led the Los Angeles Philharmonic, brings to the Pacific shore the same Philharmonia Orchestra whose many recordings with some of the greatest conductors of the latter 20th century have achieved legendary status.

The Oakland East Bay Symphony concludes the national election work week with all American composers.

This Sunday, the prodigiously accomplished David Requiro joins forces with the excellent pianistRoy Bogas for a recital that leads off a fantastic season of concerts at the Crowden School intheir Sundays@Four series.

This Sunday, the prodigiously accomplished David Requiro joins forces with the excellent pianistRoy Bogas for a recital that leads off a fantastic season of concerts at the Crowden School intheir Sundays@Four series.