Reviews

A great deal of hard work pays for Opera Parallèle, despite an odd pairing for a double-bill and its so-called "ubernarrative."

There are plenty of clues that classical music is alive and well in the Bay Area, evidenced by an all-motets concert by American Bach Soloists that drew a large, incredibly enthusiastic audience.

The Ives Quartet performs a program that would have drawn a spectrum of reactions from the namesake composer.

At the Sweet Thunder Festival the JACK Quartet looks totally comfortable with any aspect of extended technique, and then some.

Technical aspects vie with purely musical ones in Paul Dresher Ensemble’s current outing.

Georgian-born Khatia Buniatishvili’s deeply felt musicality proves right for Liszt and Ravel, but is a bit off for a Chopin sonata.

In praise of Scarlatti, the estimable Voices of Music lament impressively.

The stars were aligned in Piedmont for the fifth and concluding program of the Berkeley Symphony’s season chamber series.

The “Minimalist Jukebox,” a grand exploration of minimalism, is spinning Los Angeles itself. Two days belonged to the man who started it all: Terry Riley.

Switch-ups mark the annual Switchboard Music Festival, with genres from all over the map (and then some) and a lot of radical playing going on.