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When Lynn Harrell and the Berkeley Symphony led by Music Director Joana Carneiro take on Witold Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto, they will be taking a trip to the dark side that balances, in a radical way, the vivacity of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, also on the program.

The Bay Area is so awash in great early music players, that when San Francisco Early Music Society decided to feature more local groups on their programming, it opened itself to more diversity than probably anyone but the local HIP community knew was out there.

The Calder Quartet, which formed at the Thornton School at USC and then continued training at Colburn School in Los Angeles, has been seen frequently in the Bay Area over the past few years. 

Portland-based Capella Romana is a world-class male vocal group specializing in Greek Orthodox and Slavic church music. If that’s outside your normal sphere of activity, you have a good reason to hear this group.

Cellist Steven Isserlis teams with composer/pianist Thomas Adès to record a recital they devised of rarely heard works, playing them superbly.

A terrific threesome provided an evening of delectable works for flute, voice, and piano.

The New Century Chamber Orchestra has been on tour for two weeks and SFCV asked them for some stories and reflections from the tour. Here, including an interview with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, is what they came up with.

A well-known physician who treats addiction faces his own: buying music in classical record stores.

About to visit the Bay Area for a recital, Gil Shaham talks about new works he’ll perform and an unusual flowering of violin concertos in the 1930s.