Reviews

The L.A. Philharmonic’s excellent performance of the Verdi Requiem was very nearly brought down by the slip-ups of an overmatched video crew.

The final program in this year’s Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music seemed designed to prove that modernism is not only alive and well, it’s kicking and bawling lustily. 

Colorful and imaginative orchestral works dominate at a concert in which the younger composers outshine the elder master Philip Glass.

A rarely heard The Art of the Fugue in its entirety at Music@Menlo offered a delightful, exciting, artistically moving, and enlightening performance.

As a way of bidding Rossini adieu, or so she intimates, Kurzak has at last produced an entire disc of the composer’s scenes and arias, many of which are rarely performed.

Kronos Quartet chugs along with a number of inviting new works at the Cabrillo Festival.

The title of a Music@Menlo program, “French Connections,” raises the question: May Bach be held a father of French music as he is of trios and of preludes and fugues?

Travel in time and space, nature vs. civilization, and forms of energy generation mark the provocative works featured on Cabrillo Festival’s Saturday program.

The Cabrillo Festival soldiers on under substitute conductor Carolyn Kuan, impressing with three new or newish works.

San Francisco’s prize-winning Lamplighters put on an impressive and charming Iolanthe, with classic G&S look and style.