Reviews

Giacomo Fiore - March 14, 2015

As a sampling of Switchboard’s genre-blurring monthly “new music” series, the lineup for the March edition in the Tenderloin was perfectly eclectic.

Ken Iisaka - March 11, 2015

The power couple of chamber music played and breathe as one in this recital.

Niels Swinkels - March 10, 2015

The composer Thomas Adès did not impress SFCV's reviewer any more than the conductor Adès did.

Edward Ortiz - March 10, 2015

Touring behind the release of 1865, their last album together, Anonymous 4 focused on a classic repertoire of American song.

David Bratman - March 10, 2015

A suite by Edvard Grieg was the surprise highlight of a lively concert.

Anna Carol Dudley - March 10, 2015

In the second production of its inaugural season, Eileen Meredith's company delivered a well-cast double bill.

Giacomo Fiore - March 10, 2015

The new music festival brought back artists from its previous 20 years, all of them impressively creative still.

Steven Winn - March 8, 2015

The mezzo soprano's recital in San Francisco with pianist Julius Drake offered rich payoffs in the middle of the program, oddities at the beginning and end.

Monica Hunter-Hart - March 6, 2015

From the blissful grace of Haydn to the turmoil of Shostakovich, the Oberlin Trio played with great depth of feeling.

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