Reviews

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and a superb cast prove we can never have too many recordings of Don Giovanni.

Music inspired by Italy launches Marin Symphony’s 60th season, with tasteful and crowd-pleasing effect. A highlight is Jeremy Cohen’s new work for quartet and orchestra.

The Pacific Guitar Ensemble continues to tap the instrument’s potential with another enticing recital.

A good community choir singing masterworks of Renaissance polyphony gets a passing grade and an A+ for effort.

The Modigliani Quartet, visiting from Paris, and pianist Joyce Yang render a delightful recital on a sunny Sunday in the North Bay.

While it’s hard to explain the artistic alchemy that makes Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s opera a success, it is surprisingly entertaining in the theater.

Tis the season for late Brahms, and the San Francisco Symphony under late replacement conductor Asher Fisch delivered a somber, powerful reading of the composer’s last symphony.

We were all grateful for Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But we’re even happier to see him creating works like this brilliant Violin Concerto.

From the U.K., the Carducci String Quartet play Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Debussy in a captivating, clean, clear style.

That sublime pianist András Schiff reveals rarely heard colors and complexity in his performance of Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.