Reviews

The San Jose Chamber Orchestra acquits itself well playing a reduction of Mahler’s score of his Fourth Symphony, revealing insights into the original.

Two long nights at a new-music festival prove to be a trial, leavened by a couple of wake-up works.

First-rate singers contribute to a satisfying and welcoming evening of early music.

In Winterreise, Schubert’s chilling song cycle, two artists prophetically point the way toward places and mysteries that the composer didn’t live long enough to explore.

Mark Streshinsky's West Edge Opera has done it again, making up for a tiny budget with huge imagination and amazing excellence, in its current production of The Manga Flute.

In its first performances since the Ballet San Jose's recent upheavals, a mixed bill offers mixed results, but cause for hope.

Sound worlds are fervently explored at the 17th iteration of a new-music festival.

An indefatigable keyboard artist plays the “B”s out of Bach, Beethoven, and Bartók.

The NCCO, under Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, pushes the margins a little bit further with an illuminating program featuring two contrasting, yet ultimately congenial, mandolin concertos.

Swell sounds, and the sound of swells, highlight an intriguing recital by a Dutch wind quintet.