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Review: A Kronos Quartet Glow Up: New Players, Newly Lustrous Sound
The venerable quartet returned to Zankel Hall with a typically eclectic program and a newfound emotional intensity.

The Conductor Joana Mallwitz Mixes Intensity With Approachability
Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on Monday.

Wild Up’s Darkness Sounding Festival: The Power of Tuning
The Los Angeles collective Wild Up brought its Darkness Sounding festival to New York, with some of the event’s appeal lost in transit.

For Cleveland Orchestra, It’s Beethoven (and Freedom) to the Rescue
When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in.

Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.

Review: A New York Philharmonic Evening of Small Epiphanies
Marin Alsop led the orchestra in a program of works by Beethoven, Brahms and Stravinsky, as well as a new violin concerto by Nico Muhly.

In Hospitals and Hospices, ‘Music as Care’ Offers a New Kind of Comfort
A violinist plays for her father. A singer takes requests. In hospitals and hospices, bedside performers offer a new kind of care.

Review: Yuja Wang Tries Something New With the Philharmonic
This star pianist fascinatingly, and with mixed success, led a trio of 20th-century chamber concertos from the keyboard.

Review: Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Offer a Rarity
Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and Tchaikovsky.

At Prototype Festival, Opera With Lynchian Strangeness
This year’s Prototype, a showcase of experimental opera and theater, was stylistically broad but the focus was on the human voice in all its weirdness.