Previews

Should anyone not be tired of Farinelli’s repertoire after the Philharmonia Baroque set, here is Philippe Jaroussky, among the most recent of the countertenor superstars, singing Handel and Vivaldi arias with Jeannette Sorrell’s Cleveland-based ensemble Apollo’s Fire.

“Body music is the oldest music,” says International Body Music Festival (IBMF) Founder Keith Terry. His fourth annual festival, features six days filled with over 20 presentations of traditional and contemporary Body Music styles from all over the world.

Ensemble Caprice’s program for the San Francisco Early Music Society focuses on the Gypsies, surveying three centuries’ worth of Gypsy-influenced “classical” music.

The South Bay's major premiere of the season is a new work by the leading Argentinian-born composer Osvaldo Golijov, performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet in the Stanford Lively Arts series.

The Cypress String Quartet is bringing in renowned cellist Gary Hoffman to help them play Schubert's masterpiece, the String Quintet in C Major.

Let’s hear it for “More power to the cello!” The L.A. Philharmonic and its dynamic director arrive in town with Johannes Moser his plugged in instrument.

The radical, sometimes wacky, music of composer/pianist John Cage receives a hearing on the Stanford campus.

Singing “in the key of life” continues to be the mission of Cantare Con Vivo, now celebrating its 25th year of song and service.

The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music provide a nice classical chamber series at the Legion of Honor, but their signature event has quickly become Chamber Music Day at the de Young Museum.

New twists (and languages) in works by Ravel and Schoenberg mark the treatment of the Sounds New ensemble.