Joining Esa-Pekka Salonen, violinist Julia Fischer makes her long-awaited return to the San Francisco Symphony in Brahms’ Violin Concerto.

This one-of-a-kind presentation combines music, lights, and scent cues by Cartier for an immersive concert experience in Scriabin’s Prometheus, while Bartók unveils a chilling fairy tale.

A deep dive into the passions and aspirations of a Finnish firebrand staking his—and his homeland’s—place in the musical world.

Alonzo King and LINES Ballet unearth new corners of Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose, while Peter Sellars plumbs the depths of Schoenberg’s monodrama Erwartung in a new staging featuring soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s subtly sinister concerto is the vehicle for a cello star’s Symphony debut.

Anton Bruckner bends time and space in the service of a massive—and massively satisfying—symphonic construction. Yefim Bronfman tames the tempests of Robert Schumann’s only piano concerto.

Mahler once told Sibelius, “A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” The proof is in the pudding in Mahler’s wondrous Third.