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Embers: Haunting, unsettling evocations of the past Genre: Classical Louth Contemporary Music Society’s latest well-played album is a kind of musical sandwich, with works by Irish composer Raymond Deane enclosing a much longer work by Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov.  Deane is now in his late 60s, Silvestrov in his mid 80s, and the works range in date from 1973 (Deane’s Embers) to 2011 (Silvestrov’s Third Quartet, dedicated to and premièred by the Kronos Quartet). But they have rather more in common than you might expect. They are all pieces unafraid of stillness, of dwelling in the mom...

7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE ** 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Jewish Diaspora. Rec...

10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February A Tyshawn Sorey premiere and lots of Kurt Weill from Berlin are among the highlights. Opera Philadelphia will stream the premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Save the Boys,” a setting of an 1887 poem by the abolitionist and suffragist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Jan. 28, 2021 As the live performing arts continue to struggle through the coronavirus pandemic, here are 10 highlights from the flood of online music content coming in February. (Times listed are Eastern.) So Percussion ; available indefinitely. Th...