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In a new year filled with promise and angst, here is your guide to an extraordinary, life-enhancing Bay Area concert season.

The American Bach Soloists presented the Messiah to great effect; the music took advantage of the striking atmospheric advantages in San Francisco’s grandest sacred space, and met the challenge of connecting — personally —  to the listener in such a large, reverberant canyon.

In 2012 SFCV reviewed 55 of the top classical CD releases of the year. Here is a lineup of highly recommended recordings that you can use as stocking stuffers, or as an end-of-year splurge for yourself.

In an at-home yet grand setting, the Aulos Ensemble play music the large Bach family might have assembled for its own entertainment.