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An instrumental monument: The DSO string players in Mendelssohn’s Octet. (Photo courtesy of Delaware Symphony Orchestra.)

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra presents ‘An Evening of Strings with the Mendelssohns’

Four plus four equals great music

Delaware Symphony players meet the Mendelssohns and Caroline Shaw with virtuosic joie de vivre. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Worth the 85-year wait: The AVA’s ‘La Favorite’ ensemble. (Photo by Paul Sirochman.)

The Academy of Vocal Arts presents Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite’

A rare favorite

The Academy of Vocal Arts offers a production of Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ in its original French version, where the worthwhile elements outweigh the questionable ones. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Virtuosic tanbour player Kimia Jamshid wowed Mélomanie’s Wilmington audience. (Photo by Gail Obenreder.)

Mélomanie presents ‘Music & Art of Iran’

Old and new, east and west

The Mélomanie ensemble makes a chamber-music visit to Persia. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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Energy, feeling, and wit: violinist Isabelle Faust, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, and pianist Alexander Melkinov. (Image courtesy of Princeton University Concerts.)

Princeton University Concerts presents ‘Beethoven’s Trios’

A living, laughing presence—250 years later

Beethoven loved composing piano trios, but they often get short shrift today. A Princeton University concert paired two lesser-known works with the famous “Archduke,” playing with a verve that proved the form’s ongoing worth. Linda Holt reviews.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

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A gem of American music: Gregory Porter is on his way to the Kimmel. (Photo by Erik Humphery.)

Superstar singer Gregory Porter makes his first visit to the Kimmel Center

The rise of Gregory Porter

Especially for those deep in the last 10 years of the Harlem jazz scene, one singer’s international rise has been a thrill. Gregory Porter is heading for his first concert at the Kimmel. Vena Jefferson will be there.
Vena Jefferson

Vena Jefferson

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Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ gave the Opera Philadelphia musicians pride of place alongside the singers. (Image courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.)

Opera Philadelphia presents Verdi’s ‘Requiem’

Music worth worshiping

Verdi’s operatic ‘Requiem’ gets top-drawer treatment from the orchestra, chorus, and soloists of Opera Philadelphia. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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Sadness and possibilities of hope: a 1913 photograph of composer Lili Boulanger, who died at age 24. (Image via Wikimedia Commons.)

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Daniil Trifonov

Lili, Ludwig, Louise—and Daniil

Piano superstar Daniil Trifonov offered revelatory readings of two Beethoven concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, played alongside underheard works by two women composers. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

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No falling off the bench here: Yefim Bronfman rendered Beethoven with maturity and integrity. (Photo by Frank Stewart.)

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Yefim Bronfman at the Academy of Music

Dust devils and Rachmaninoff

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first subscription concert of 2020, marking a return to the Academy of Music, featured Vivian Fung’s spirited ‘Dust Devils’ alongside Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. Linda Holt reviews.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

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Subtle, pristine, and sensitive musicianship: soloist Friedrich Heinrich Kern on the glass harmonica. (Photo by Gail Obenreder.)

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presents ‘Music of the Enlightenment’

A glass from the past

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia hails the glass harmonica to revive the Enlightenment—an appropriate sound for Philadelphia’s history. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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An unusual ongoing dialogue: Cellist Camille Thomas, Maestro David Amado, and the orchestra in rehearsal for DSO’s ‘False Starts’ program. (Photo Courtesy of Delaware Symphony Orchestra.)

The Delaware Symphony Orchestra presents ‘False Starts’

Reviled then, beloved now

Delaware Symphony plays works by Borodin, Elgar, and Rachmaninoff that had difficult premieres in their own times. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

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