Reviews

Emanuel Ax and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are brilliantly matched, offering a set from Beethoven’s middle period.

The opening night concert at Oakland's Paramount Theatre for the OEBS officially celebrated Democracy, in tune with the recent national election, and aptly symbolized in the programming.

Benjamin Verdery brandishes his guitar in open and inviting ways, in both familiar songs and insightful commissioned works.

The Calder Quartet filled in at the San Jose Chamber Music Society in a program of fairly severe pieces that push, in one way or another, at the edge of the quartet idiom practice of their time.

That keyboard artist Jean-Yves Thibaudet works his magic on Debussy’s impressionistic and orientalist works.

A performance by ARTefact provides an exercise in expectation affecting perception, which becomes the highlight of the concert.

Sponsored by Other Minds and a team of organizations including Cal Performances, the concerts celebrating Conlon Nancarrow's 100th at UC Berkeley’s Hertz Hall were a scene of fascination.

The orchestral might of the Santa Rosa Symphony, under Music Director Bruno Ferrandis, can now truly be heard in the Green Music Center’s splendid acoustics.

Exotic elements hold great appeal when mixed and matched suavely by the Ultra World X-tet.

The S.F. Girls Chorus' season opener, featuring Vivaldi's Gloria, was conducted by Jeffrey Thomas, the American Bach Soloists orchestra provided accompaniment, and soloists gave variety to the vocal fare.