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8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic...

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

Published April 22, 2021 at 12:21 PM EDT Listen • 54:07 / This week on Classical IPR in Concert, well hear Music Spotlight 4 from Interlochen Arts Academy, focusing on chamber works. Michael Culler engineered this program. Tune in to Classical IPR Friday night at 8, Sunday at noon, or any time below! Music in this program (Title/Composer/Conductor): Consorts/Spittal/M. Schlomer: Double Woodwind Quintet Legacy/Camphouse/M. Schlomer: Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphoni...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneide...

• Mar 18, 2021 On this edition of Classical IPR in Concert, well hear a February 2021 virtual recital of the Cummings String Quartet. The Cummings Quartet is the professional ensemble of the Dorothy Gerber Strings Program, in residence at the Great Lakes Center for the Arts in Bay Harbor. The program will feature works by Beethoven and Shostakovich. The Cummings Quartet are: David Reimer (first violin), Iuliia Fetysenko (second violin), Trisha Berquist (viola) and Elizabeth Bert (...

Space Bar, 57 Willis St, 5.30pm, Tonight is the launch night of two/fiftyseven where 18 artists have created work for this new space. The exhibition (in partnership with Mashuko Aotearoa) is to celebrate the return and permanent installation of the works - curated by Miriama Grace-Smith, Xoë Hall, Gina Kiel and Ash Holwell. Orion Quartet with Victoria Jaenecke Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, 12:45pm, Koha entry Another opportunity to hear the Orion Quartet, with guest violist Victoria Jaen...

MONDAY Capital E National Theatre for Children, Circa Theatre, until Saturday, 10am and 1pm, $10 Seasons transports children through song, music, and puppetry into the four seasons – raumati, ngahuru, hōtoke and kōanga. Journey into nature’s world of living creatures, colours, and sounds. tickets Capital E Rossini’s Opportunity makes the Thief) Boutique Cinema Te Auaha, Dixon St, 7pm, $18-$22, door sales Opera screening from The New Zealand Opera Society. A delightful one-act ‘fars...

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Conce...