Reviews

With sweet tone and wrenching tenderness, Matthias Goerne with pianist Christoph Eschenbach give Schubert’s monumental Winterreise song cycle a performance for the ages.

David Lang’s battle hymns evokes emotions related to the Civil War, as well as substantial music and dance forces.

Mixing it up, Lara Downes brings adventurous music lovers up close and personal with performers, in a lively, jazz club setting.

Launching its west coast tour, the Handel and Haydn Society, America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization, once again made history in Berkeley over the weekend.

Opera Parallèle’s Trouble in Tahiti is brought to life by an excellent cast and fine instrumental ensemble, and shines as the engaging, moving, and oft-delightful romp that Bernstein intended.

Virtually a year after releasing their delicious recording, Los Pájaros Perdidos, Christina Pluhar and her early music ensemble, L’Arpeggiata, journey to the Mediterranean.

Mark Adamo explores the unusual pairing of baritone with string quartet, achieving handsome (and Hampson) results.

After decades of superb performances, the Tokyo String Quartet rings down the curtain, in its farewell San Francisco concert.

The return of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for its second engagement at Zellerbach Hall since Robert Battle took over the artistic directorship is, to judge from Tuesday’s opening, a rip-roaring audience success.

That consummate pianist András Schiff enraptures a capacity crowd with his mastery of his instrument, playing Bach’s “English” Suites.