In an ambitious program featuring pipa player Wu Man, the orchestra showed power in excess, with less finesse.
Music Director Valery Gergiev showed off an orchestra in peak condition in a concert featuring flashy pianist Denis Matsuev.
Chen is the second candidate in the orchestra’s music-director search and showed many strengths in her weekend set.
A small piece from composer Frank Ticheli ignites while Ola Gjeilo’s Sacris Solemniis merely soothes.
In its farewell tour with pianist Ethan Iverson, the jazz trio covers the terrain that has made it a major force in jazz.
Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben flirt with storytelling but hold back secrets.
Great performances mark Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s ambitious program of two new Kurt Rhode operas.
Brilliant design and direction support a superb cast and an outstanding performance by tenor Michael Fabiano.
Tod Browning’s classic film is more camp than creepy, but Philip Glass’s score still engages the imagination.
Pitch-perfect performances blend seamlessly in a program spanning the centuries.
