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Guest conductor Juraj Valčuha led the San Francisco Symphony burnished performances, with several standout solo performances serving as highlights.

This satisfying recording of Beethoven's Ninth is a masterwork of music, and a pleasing memento of what today’s San Francisco Symphony sounds like in concert.

What's the word on the festival street this weekend? Jazz on the Hill in San Mateo and, yum, Berkeley's Chocolate and Chalk Art Festival.

David Korins is very attuned to creating an “environment” for The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, which is what he describes so interestingly here.

Edward Elgar was the leading English composer at the beginning of the 20th century. It only seems fitting to honor him, not only in his birthday week, but in a time of so much Pomp and Circumstance.

Anton Sanko’s Whale Migration is music from a documentary, but it’s also the latest entry in a popular subgenre for composers.

Igor Stravinsky’s famous score for the ballet The Rite of Spring is 100 years old this month, and everyone is celebrating. For this playlist we turn to Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes.

Music was a balm to Sean Do, and he wanted to bring it into his childrens’ lives. He succeeded, but, as always with children, not in the way he expected.

Hot Club of San Francisco shares a track with SFCV readers from their album Live at Yoshi’s.

On June 4 clarinetist Brenden Guy performs Movements for a Clarinet Concerto, a long-awaited reconstruction of a Britten commission.