Benjamin Britten’s opera is pleasant if mostly uninteresting, like its titular hero.
The conductor and soloist Joshua Bell collaborate on a finely wrought performance of the composer’s Violin Concerto.
Emma O’Halloran’s techno-tinged music clothes the drama perfectly in tales of Dublin’s downtrodden.
Jazz, spirituals, and classical song merge in an intriguing crossover event.
Michel van der Aa’s elusive and subtle work is brilliantly realized at Cal Performances.
The latest recording release from the New York Festival of Song spotlights tenor Joshua Blue and the American activist tradition.
The choir’s concert brings together some of the pieces these singers are most associated with, including one motet they’ve performed 130 times.
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.
