On new music by James MacMillan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Bryce Dessner; newish music by Philip Glass and Wynton Marsalis; unfamiliar music by Bizet; the conductors Riccardo Muti and Santtu-Matias Rouvali; the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; and the pianist Conrad Tao.
On the pianist Marc-André Hamelin; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera; the Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Valery Gergiev; and the soprano Golda Schultz.
On Philip Glass and Kelli O'Hara at the New York Philharmonic; Paul Jacobs and the French organ tradition; Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; the composer Jessie Montgomery; the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; and some recently departed musical standouts.
On the 2019 Salzburg Festival.
On offerings from the Mostly Mozart Festival: The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, a piano recital, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
On Thomas Larcher and the New York Philharmonic; Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, and the New World Symphony; and Katia and Marielle Labèque.
On Jean Rondeau; Zhao Lin at the New York Philharmonic; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, and Daniel Müller-Schott; Thomas Adès; and Juho Pohjonen.
On Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic, Igudesman & Joo, and Falstaff and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Elegy and Fire in my mouth at the New York Philharmonic; Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, and Seong-Jin Cho at Carnegie Hall; and Carmen at the Met Opera.
On Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Traviata at the Met Opera, J’Nai Bridges with Mark Markham & Joshua Bell with the New York String Orchestra.
