Luxuriously cast, expertly directed, and conducted with fiery abandon by Richard Egarr, the show made the case for Handel’s fifth Italian opera.
The composer’s First Symphony outshines a new concerto by Outi Tarkiainen and Wynton Marsalis’s Blues Symphony.
Jessie Montgomery’s appealing, resourceful L.E.S. Characters has a happy premiere alongside Charles Ives’s pastoral Symphony No. 3.
Yuja Wang is not alone. Some artists make the show more exciting with their sartorial choices.
While enjoying the first summit of her career, Stasevska also has the courage to run supplies to her home country of Ukraine.
The Oakland Civic Orchestra has grown to 65 players and is taking on big challenges, including a new piece by composer-in-residence Niko Umar Durr.
The composer and violist make music out of shared memories of the Lower East Side of New York.
