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Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital

Alisa Weilerstein brought her new project, a mix tape of new works and movements from Bach’s cello suites, to Zankel Hall.

Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers

Often seen onstage as a star of bel canto opera, this tenor crafted a recital of works by Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds and their successors.

Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity

A festival responds to the assaults and insults of war by celebrating the composer who shaped the nation’s contemporary music, Borys Liatoshynsky.

Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom

Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of “Falstaff.”

Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music

Players from the ensemble came to New York to perform works by Bach, Telemann and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch at the 92nd Street Y, New York.

Review: An Orchestra Falters in Schubert’s ‘Great’ Symphony

Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s returned to Carnegie Hall in a program that also included a Mozart piano concerto with Emanuel Ax.

Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall

Mao Fujita’s playing had a prettiness all its own, but he didn’t connect profoundly with all the composers on his largely safe program.

Review: Met Opera’s ‘Dialogues des Carmélites’ Revival

This revival of John Dexter’s production of “Dialogues des Carmélites” features a tightly knit cast led by the full-voiced soprano Ailyn Pérez.

Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’

The composer Shawn Okpebholo has created a song cycle that imagines the inner lives of fugitives from American slavery.

Review: ‘The Magic Flute’ Directs Its Whimsy Toward the Younger Set

Julie Taymor’s version of Mozart’s opera, a fairy tale of puppets and plexiglass, achieves its finest form in the Met’s condensed version for families.