LONDON—Judging by this April 9 concert at the Barbican’s Milton Court concert hall, versatility is the Britten Sinfonia’s middle name. The program ranged from Mozart to Judith Weir and featured a world premiere in the form of … » Read

The April 9 performance by Jakub Józef Orlinski at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall was a reminder that the Polish countertenor, in the words of the Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman, “really does seem to reach beyond what most artists … » Read

There’s something enigmatic about the music Sarah Hennies composes: Even when she describes exactly what she’s done and why, a listener still might wonder how she achieved this or that detail. Hennies doesn’t cut corners when it … » Read

Every spring, the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival in southern France invites a different phalanx to perform one or other of Bach’s completed Passions. This Good Friday it was the turn of the Swiss baroque orchestra La Cetra to perform the … » Read

Chamber music aficionados waiting until the last moment to get tickets for the April 5 all-Schubert recital by pianists Jonathan Biss and Mitsuko Uchida were plumb out of luck. The appearance by the co-directors of the Marlboro Music Festival at … » Read

New York’s ten-year-old Heartbeat Opera has made its reputation with stripped-down, radically reinterpreted versions of standard repertory pieces. Under its founding Artistic Directors Ethan Heard and Louisa Proske, the company presented, … » Read

With an official release date of April 12, Pentatone has recorded Paul Moravec’s ambitious operatic adaptation of Stephen King’s 1977 novel The Shining . The story concerns Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who brings … » Read

“I keep concerts short, because a lot of the music that I write is quite introspective, and I think it kind of unfair to make people suffer,” Roger Eno cheerily informed an audience assembled on a recent Friday night at National … » Read

La rondine remains the least-performed of Puccini’s mature operas; the March 26 first night of the Met’s current revival had the unfortunate effect of suggesting just why that is the case. The 1917 c ommedia lirica is full of … » Read

Columbia University’s Miller Theater, which nearly 25 years ago branded a model of musical retrospectives devoted to individual figures, was the site of a particularly elaborate Composer Portrait March 21  when the new-music ensemble … » Read