Reviews

You’ll probably enjoy Musical Art Quintet’s first CD if you don’t demand that music communicate on multiple emotional levels.

The opening of San Francisco Symphony's second subscription series of the 101st season tonight was a blast from the past, one that spoke to a new audience.

The New Esterházy String Quartet, with soprano Christine Brandes, was equally at home in the works of Haydn’s London period and in his less-showy, earlier pieces.

Pianist Lara Downes offers music of exiled composers in an intimate setting, to launch the inaugural Classical Revolution Festival.

Opera San Jose is a first-rate demonstration of why opera companies have been rediscovering this pearl of an opera by the young Georges Bizet.

The first night of the S.F. Opera's Rigoletto, featured three much-heralded SFO debutants, faring best in secondary roles, and inspired conducting by Luisotti.

Even if you’re awash in recordings of the Schubert Cello Quintet piece, this recording by the Arcanto Quartet and Oliver Marron is one to hear.

Guest conductor Semyon Bychkov launches S.F. Symphony’s 101st season with fine playing, even without the typical opening-night glitz ’n’ glamour.

ETHEL goes to great extremes to play down the fact that it’s a classical ensemble, but in the end it doesn’t matter. The album is great and well-played.

Handel’s best-known opera has achieved popularity due to a staggering succession of supremely engaging melodies. The reason for the full-house in Salzburg was the stars.