David Bratman

For its season finale, the orchestra ambitiously takes on Sibelius’s Second Symphony and an opener featuring high school players.

The orchestra’s passionate playing of four meditative pieces is emotional and gratifying.

The Bennewitz Quartet visits the San Jose Chamber Music Society with a program of Dvořák, Janáček, Smetana, and Hans Krása.

Winds and percussion are featured on a concert of works by Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Lou Harrison.

Alban Berg, Benjamin Britten, and … Grażyna Bacewicz get strong, urgent performances at Stanford Live.

From humor to gloom, these players can craft compelling characters with any composition.

In a cello concerto featuring a hologram soloist, the orchestra conducts something of an experiment.

Working without their late first violinist, these three musicians are bringing in collaborators to great success.

The founder of L.A. new-music group Wild Up leads a spirited concert of Americana, including Jeff Midkiff’s Mandolin Concerto.

This tour of Latin American folk styles makes an impression, along with a cool reading of Brahms’s Second Symphony.