Chen is the second candidate in the orchestra’s music-director search and showed many strengths in her weekend set.
Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety and Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben flirt with storytelling but hold back secrets.
An airy afternoon of dances and a Bach concerto ends with Bartók’s spirited and spooky Divertimento.
Orchestra and conductor were in top form, but Latvian violinist Baiba Skride stole the show.
Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner’s long-time love of Mexican music finds expression in a timely program.
Alasdair Neale and Marin Symphony offer a vivid program of Tchaikovsky, Barber, and Mussorgsky.
The CDMX Festival ended on a serious, new music note, with composers who are part of an international community of explorers.
Soloist Mayuko Kamio stands out in Khachaturian Violin Concerto.
The S.F. Symphony gave a stellar account of a 20th-century masterwork, and Joshua Roman carried Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.
Michael Morgan, orchestra, and soloists convey a persuasive interpretation of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15.
