Colin Currie conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Chorus in Steve Reich’s The Desert Music (1982-83) at the Glasshouse. © Thomas Jackson / TyneSight Media Launching into their weekend-l…

Members of the Philip Glass ensemble. © Ryuhei Shindo Back in Helsinki five years after their previous visit, the sextet line-up of the Philip Glass Ensemble treated their Kulttuuritalo audience wi…

Elim Chan onstage with soprano Claire de Sévigné and the FRSO after their performance of Unsuk Chin’s Puzzles and Games from Alice in Wonderland (2017). © Jari Kallio Returning to the podium …

Brett Dean conducting Berliner Philharmoniker and soprano Jennifer France in And once I played Ophelia (2013/2018) and Conversations with Schumann (2026). © Monika Rittershaus Last week’s concerts …

Mahagonny Babylon (2026) at Organ Night & Aria festival, dramatized and directed by Aleksi Barrière. © Ella Kiviniemi Even though works of art certainly retain their perennial raison d’être reg…

Kirill Gerstein performing Ferrucio Busoni’s Piano Concerto (1902-04) with the Lahti Symphony and YL Male Voice Choir, conducted by Hannu Lintu. © Henrika Bäcklund Topping off the second year…

Kangyoon Shine Lee, tenor, Andrew Watts, countertenor, and Luke Terence Scott, baritone, in the Finnish premiere of György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre (1974-77/1996) with the FRSO and Nicholas …

Dalia Stasevska conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic and soprano Anna Prohaska in the Finnish premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem (2023) on Tuesday evening. © Saara Autere. Inaugurat…

Dalia Stasevska conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic and soprano Anna Prohaska in the Finnish premiere of Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem (2023) on Tuesday evening. © Saara Autere. Inaugurat…

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Time for Three performing Kevin Puts’s Emily – No Prisoner Be (2025) at Tampere Hall. © Pasi Järvelä Heard for the first time in Finland upon its Tampere Hall…

Tuukka Vasama and Timo Ruuskanen in Voces (2025). © Jonas Kukkonen, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Now on its second touring season, Voces – Intimate Voices (2025), a joint endeavor by Red Nose Compa…

Claire Chase in performance. © Walter Wlodorczyk Following Saturday’s European premiere of Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (2022-), flutist and interdisciplinary artist Clare Chase presented t…

Claire Chase, flutes, performing Terry Riley’s The Holy Liftoff (2022-) with Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä and Philip Zuckerman, violins, Hanna Hohti, viola, and Markus Hohti, cello, upon its Europea…

Flutist, interdisciplinary artist, curator and teacher Claire Chase. © Thomas Fichter “This is just one little possible manifestation of this massive, multifaceted, multi-directional, spiritual jou…

Aphrodite Patoulidou and Keval Shah performing Sibelius’s Luonnotar (1913) at Ainola. © Maarit Kytöharju At Meidän Festivaali (Our Festival), the afternoon concerts at Ainola have always been…

Kamus Quartet et al. premiering Perttu Haapanen’s Zooions (2026) at Our Festival on Sunday evening. © Maarit Kytöharju Celebrating its 30th anniversary season, Meidän Festivaali (Our Festival…

Members of Virtuosi di Kuhmo rehearsing Caroline Shaw and Andrew Norman at Hattula Church. © Jari Kallio Celebrating its 25th season with a characteristically multi-faceted musical setup, the Hauho…

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina, the dedicatee of Bryce Dessner’s Trembling Earth (2025). © Johanna Berghorn / Sony Music Entertainment Concluding Bryce Dessner’s season-long tenure as Composer-in…

Gabriela Ortiz onstage with Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker after the European premiere of her ballet score Revolución diamantina (2023) for eight amplified voices and orchestra. © …

Hans Abrahamsen onstage with Stefan Dohr, Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra after Friday’s performance of his Concerto for Horn and Orchestra (2018-19) © Jari Kallio Ro…

Conor Hanick performing Samuel Adams’s No Such Spring (2021-22) for orchestra and piano with the BBC Philharmonic under Ludovic Morlot upon its UK premiere. © Shirlaine Forrest Making their F…

Danish String Quartet in performance at Lucerne Festival Pulse 2026. © Patrick Hurlimann / Lucerne Festival Demonstrating the art of programming at its finest, the Danish String Quartet made two ch…

Sir Simon Rattle conducting the LSO in Roberto Gerhard’s Symphony No. 3 Collages (1960). © Mark Allan Witnessing the sun blazing out through a sea of clouds like 10,000 trumpets on an air fli…

Paul McCreesh conducting Gabrieli Consort & Players in A Venetian Coronation 1595. © Lucie Bolzan Mustered at Temple Church under Artistic Director Paul McCreesh on Tuesday, the all-male line-u…

Víkingur Ólafsson in performance with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Thomas Adès at Lucerne Festival Pulse 2026. © Patrick Hurlimann / Lucerne Festival Teaming up with the Mahler Chamber Orchestr…

Víkingur Ólafsson and the Danish String Quartet performing Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet (1985) at Lucerne Festival Pulse 2026. © Patrick Hurlimann / Lucerne Festival “My music is…

Thomas Adès performing at Hallé St Peters. © Jari Kallio Following his concert with the Hallé on April 23rd, Thomas Adès took the stage at Hallé St Peters for a Friday afternoon recital featuring a…

Thomas Adès conducting the Hallé in his Lieux retrouvés (2009/2016) for cello and small orchestra with Nicolas Altstaedt as soloist. © Sharyn Bellemakers / The Hallé Reunited with the Hallé, Thomas…

Philip Glass’s Satyagraha (1979-80) at Opéra national de Paris, directed by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber. © Yonathan Kellerman / Opéra national de Paris Unveiled at Palais Garnier, the n…

Hugo Ticciati and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra after the Finnish premiere of Nico Muhly’s Shrink (2019) at Snellman Hall. © Jari Kallio In Kokkola, Finland, violinist and conductor Hug…

The Tampere Philharmonic and Choir with Chief Conductor Matthew Halls, Benjamin Hulett, tenor, Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano, and Andrew Foster-Williams, bass-baritone after Maundy Thursday&#8…

Daníel Bjarnason and the Helsinki Philharmonic rehearsing I Want to Be Alive (2023-25) ahead of the Finnish premiere performance at the Helsinki Music Centre. © Jari Kallio Unveiled upon its spellb…

Francisco Coll onstage with Kirill Gerstein, Sir Simon Rattle and the BRSO after the world premiere of the Piano Concerto (2025) at the Herkulessaal on Thursday. © BR – Astrid Ackermann Cases in po…

Antoine Tamestit onstage with Caleb Young and the Helsinki Philharmonic after the European premiere of John Williams’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (2009) on Friday. © Jari Kallio A verit…

Herbert Blomstedt conducting Brahms with the Boston Symphony at the Symphony Hall. © Michael J. Lutch, courtesy of the BSO There is such unique organicity in music-making under Herbert Blomstedt, t…

Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Chicago Symphony. © Todd Rosenberg Photography Presenting a splendid program of early 20th century masterstrokes, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra…

Music Director Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil in Ludwig van Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony (1802-08) and Thomas Adès’s Inferno (2019) last week at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. ©…

Music Director Gustavo Dudamel conducting the LA Phil and members of the LA Master Chorale in Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina (2023) with Grupo Corpo. © Timothy Norris, provided courte…

John Holiday in the title role of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten (1983) in the LA Opera revival of the Phelim McDermott production. © Cory Weaver Returning to the LA Opera in Phelim McDermott’s epic…

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Benjamin Zander performing in Symphony Hall on Friday. © Paul Mardy Mustered at the Symphony Hall stage on Friday evening, the musicians of the Boston Philha…

Ensemble Signal performing Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76) in Calderwood Hall at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Thursday. © Ally Schmaling Although it seems somewhat unreal, this year we g…

Augustin Hadelich performing Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (2005) with the Boston Symphony under the composer. © Winslow Townson, courtesy of the BSO Returning to conduct the…

Augustin Hadelich performing Thomas Adès’s Violin Concerto Concentric Paths (2005) with the Boston Symphony under the composer. © Winslow Townson, courtesy of the BSO Returning to conduct the…

Anu Komsi, soprano, and Sakari Oramo, violin, performing György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments, op. 24 (1985-87) in Helsinki. © Ella Kiviniemi Last Thursday marked the 100th birthday of György Kurt…

Esa-Pekka Salonen in Paris. © Audoin Desforges / Philharmonie de Paris “I thought that new repertoire was needed for the horn. While there are some fine concertos around, not too many of them have …

Esa-Pekka Salonen in Paris. © Audoin Desforges / Philharmonie de Paris “I thought that new repertoire was needed for the horn. While there are some fine concertos around, not too many of them have …