On her latest album, Kopatchinskaja gives standout performances of unusual works by composers forced to flee their homelands.
Cho plays a completely captivating concert that features the composer’s complete solo piano works.
With Järvi conducting, the orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances under MTT.
The vocalist is a once-in-a-generation talent, as she again shows in a concert at Cal Performances.
Davidsen, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s reigning divas, shows complete mastery in a varied recital at Cal Performances.
Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil in the great composer’s 2023 trumpet concerto, HUSH.
The Oakland percussionist’s album-release concert at the Freight & Salvage unites the community in music.
Bryan brings together diverse works from a dozen different contemporary composers who represent the global African diaspora.
There’s a theatrical bent to the two big works on the lineup: Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths and Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars.
The orchestra’s former music director leads a program of Schubert and Brahms with grace, if occasional shakiness.
