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Sixtrum’s program – framed by two very different composers but just as much by the big wooden instruments that filled the staging ground – is pristine both In sight and sound.

Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

Aucoin, librettist Jorie Graham and director Peter Sellars make New Bodies more a haunting mood piece than a cautionary tale for the American Modern Opera Company.

The Australian conductor leads a superb performance of Bruckner’s Sixth paired with Steven Isserlis playing Schumann’s Cello Concerto. 

Singers Susanna Phillips, Michelle DeYoung and Ben Bliss impress in an intimate performance with members of the Met Orchestra.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with Stewart as soloist, is transformed into a call for climate action at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, the strongest moments coming in the musical quotations. 

A haunting account of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto is paired with a vivid rendition of his Eleventh Symphony.