The combination of Thomas Søndergård, music director designate of the Minnesota Orchestra; the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 produced an evening of music that drove one critic to superlatives. … » Read

Du Yun is a Shanghai- and U.S.- trained composer and performer, now based in New York. Her best-known works are the opera Angel’s Bone , first heard in 2016 at the Prototype Festival in New York and winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for … » Read

One needn’t look far for premieres of new music in the New York Philharmonic’s current season, but few will have the sheer size or impose the interpretive challenges of Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto. … » Read

LONDON--Not content with being a consummate concert pianist—along with  gifted writer, poet, and painter—Sir Stephen Hough also composes. A busy work schedule has limited his output in the past but, thanks perhaps to the … » Read

The timing was a bit unfortunate. Just days before the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Fedora , the company announced in The New York Times that it was planning to intensify its focus on contemporary works. … » Read

The latest trifecta of recordings of new American orchestral and instrumental works includes a disc of strikingly immersive music by Steven Mackey played by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. These recordings hail from David Robertson’s … » Read

John Adams’s opera-oratorio El Niño - Nativity Reconsidered has always felt imposing, immense, and possibly something that could be a Christmas concert piece. Which could be one reason why the enterprising soprano Julia Bullock has … » Read

LONDON—The sun shines brightly in Australia during December, but this account of Schubert’s chilling (and chilly) masterpiece in song, first seen and heard in Sydney earlier this year, practically froze the stage when it reached a … » Read

The audience perches on barstools or lolls on padded ottomans and low-slung couches, diverted by dreamy projections on multiple screens and cocktails they’re free to sip during the show. Performances begin at a fashionable 9 pm. … » Read

This season is contralto-cum-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann’s first as music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has thus far drawn an ambivalent response from the local music critic. Her third appearance on the podium—for a … » Read