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In a subscription performance supposed to yield no surprises, Igor Levit makes his own mark in Shostakovich. 

Emanuel Ax joins members of the New York Philharmonic for an afternoon of chamber music at the 92nd Street Y. 

A rare outing for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Clarinet Quintet in New York along with a youthful Mendelssohn string quartet. 

The New World Symphony's Viola Visions kicked off Wednesday night with a concert of music that spanned three centuries and gave full voice to the splendor of the instrument

Seattle's 2019 Chamber Music Summer Festival premiered Sebastian Currier's Voyage Out, which uses the piano quintet to reimagine the metaphor of musical journeys, on a program framed by passionate 19th-century chamber compositions.

Absolute Jest sounds like perfect fare for an April Fool's Day concert. John Adams quotes Beethoven in many guises in his jolly work for string quartet and orchestra. 

In Jaap van Zweden's first time conducting the New York Philharmonic since it was announced, earlier this year, that he would be succeeding Alan Gilbert as music director, the orchestra sounded more enlivened than they have in months.

Framed by passionate performances of Mendelssohn and Brahms, a gorgeous neo-Romantic work by Steven Stucky is unveiled in this installment of the 2015 Summer Festival. 

The second week of the Seattle Chamber Music Society's 2015 Summer Festival offered up an unusual juxtaposition of instrumental and vocal pieces, with a beautifully somber mood prevailing.

The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, served an appetizing pairing: Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante was the hors d’oeuvre, and Shostakovich’s triumphant Symphony no. 8 was the entrée.