Among the first stirrings of the new season, the New York Armory’s estimable recital series presented on September 11 acclaimed soprano Julia Bullock in the intimate Board of Officers Room. John Arida was at the piano for a varied program … » Read

LONDON—There’s little doubt that the first installment of Barrie Kosky’s new Ring Cycle for the Royal Opera House was the hottest ticket of the London season. At this September 12 premiere performance of Das Rheingold , the … » Read

CARDIFF—The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov’s first opera, Ainadamar , during the 2024-25 season, and to judge by the local premiere that opened at the Welsh Millennium Center on September 9, … » Read

CHICAGO — Classical music might be ever more undefinable, but one constant is usually assured: works are written by, and reverently credited to, a single composer. For Third Coast Percussion, all bets are off. For the better part of a … » Read

The Florence Price renaissance marches on, the latest instalment being The Philadelphia Orchestra’s follow-up to their outstanding recording of the composer’s First and Third Symphonies. Price made history as the first Black woman to … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO — John Zorn is a unique, proudly unclassifiable musician. His music spans classical, jazz, film, and klezmer, using notated and improvised scores mostly collaborative or orchestral but occasionally solo. He has been influenced … » Read

Goodwill was in the air at this August 28 concert before even a single note had sounded. First of all, there was the inclusion of the no-longer to be axed BBC Singers. Their late-in-the-day appearance at the 2023 Proms followed a … » Read

The International Contemporary Ensemble, an invaluable new-music collective founded in 2001, used to cut a higher profile than it has lately, or at least it seems that way. In a 2007 New York Times article , founder Claire Chase spelled out the … » Read

LONDON—Last year, the BBC Proms offered a f ine account of Handel’s Solomon , though its grandeur was slightly scuppered by overly modest forces. The Royal Albert Hall is big, and the otherwise excellent BBC Singers rattled around in … » Read

The Salzburg Festival’s choice of operas this summer scarcely ventured beyond the tried and true with one notable exception, Behuslav Martinu’s Greek Passion , a work ardently admired by many but here making its festival debut (viewed … » Read