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A classical guitarist circles the globe in his program, which he played with complete mastery and ravishing color.

Pianist Alexander Melnikov enchants listeners with his playing of the entire set of Shostakovich Preludes and Fugures.

Over more than three decades, Berkeley High School’s innovative jazz program has churned out talented amateur players as well as many professionals.

A performer and scholar plays and talks about J.S. Bach’s French Suites, performing them on a triplet of harpsichords variously tuned. The result: hearing them better than ever.

The free Festival of New American Music, in Sacramento, presents a variety of welcome works that bode well for the future.

In its 20th season, Magnificat brings an ancient biblical oratorio to life in a manner the composer would have recognized.

The problems in the traditional orchestra world haven’t fazed the creator/managers of a new breed of orchestra fashioned with freelance players, street smarts, and a can-do mentality. The 25-year rise of these smaller-budget ensembles is an increasingly important story in the landscape of American orchestras.

The Santa Rosa Symphony performs David Carlson’s new song cycle, whose text was impassioned but mostly unintelligible.

The S.F. Symphony delivers an excellent program displaying Schubert’s varied moods and idioms.