Reviews

Margaret Jones - May 26, 2014

Chora Nova's season-ending concert brings is a festive finale, a beautiful collaboration of sacred texts and soloists.

Steve Osborn - May 26, 2014

The Santa Rosa Symphony,with piano soloist Jeffrey Kahane and conductor Bruno Ferrandis, performed a benefit concert in honor of more than 20,000 children served by the Symphony's extensive outreach efforts.

Niels Swinkels - May 26, 2014

A S.F. Symphony concert of a hard-hitting (and string-breaking) Prokofiev combines with easy listening classical before a auditorium at Davies Symphony Hall.

Jason Victor Serinus - May 25, 2014

The West Bay Opera's Magic Flute list of joys is long, a cumulative accomplishment of production, casting, and intention.

Niels Swinkels - May 21, 2014

Volti closed its 35th season with world premieres of music by American composers Melissa Dunphy and Ted Hearne, plus two Volti-commissions by Kirke Mechem.

Steven Winn - May 19, 2014

Great exaltations ring out through Oakland's Paramount Theatre when the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Oakland Youth Orchestra ssemble for a performance of Berlioz’ stupendous Requiem.

David Bratman - May 19, 2014

The Symphony Silicon Valley offers a Brahms inspired concert with guest conductor Karen Kamensek and guest pianist Jon Nakamatsu.

Jeff Dunn - May 16, 2014

From moments of tender lyricism to thrilling virtuoso expostulations, the Christian Tetzlaff-Tilson-Thomas axis held San Francisco Symphony patrons in thrall.

Niels Swinkels - May 13, 2014

The second concert from the S.F. Symphony with Dutch guest conductor Ton Koopman offers a view of the great German composer through the eyes of a Bach scholar, and a lesson in why he considers Bach the center of his musical world.

Ken Iisaka - May 12, 2014

Alessio Bax proves he has the chops, youthful stamina, and artistic insight to perform two monumental, exhausting works back-to-back in one Music@Menlo recital.