Punch Brothers kicked off a brief tour of the United Kingdom with a sold-out show at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with Sarah Jarosz last night. The tour continues through the weekend with a set at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall tonight as part of the Celtic Connections festival and a second sold-out show at Queen Elizabeth Hall with Jarosz on Sunday. The Evening Standard gives four stars to last night's show, saying they "sounded as sharp as they looked" and "have made a major creative leap on their new album, The Phosphorescent Blues."

The new album, The Phosphorescent Blues, is out next week and streaming in full till then via the New York Times. "Listening to the Punch Brothers is an exercise in wonder," raves the Irish Times in a five-star album review. "Enjoy." The Herald Scotland calls it "a quite masterly collection from a quintet of virtuosi ... The Phosphorescent Blues deserves to be filed next to the best work of The Beach Boys, Big Star and Richard Thompson. It's that good."

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Singer-songwriter Olivia Chaney performs at Cecil Sharp House in London on Saturday as part of Ten Thousand Times Adieu, a sold-out, day-long event celebrating the centenary of the late folk singer and author Bob Copper, presented by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and The Copper Family. Chaney forms a trio with Lisa Knapp and Nancy Wallace to perform for the evening's concert.

You can hear a track from Chaney's forthcoming Nonesuch debut album here.

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Rhiannon Giddens, whose debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, is due out on Nonesuch in February, is a guest on the BBC Radio 4 program Loose Ends, hosted by Clive Anderson, this Saturday evening at 6:15 PM in London. Also on the show: Fairport Convention. Tune in on the radio or online at bbc.co.uk.

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Pianist Richard Goode joins the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edo de Waart for a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456, at the Marcus Center's Uihlein Hall in Milwaukee on Saturday. Also on the program is Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in C major.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reviewing Goode's recent performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, says the concert was "one to cherish." In such an event, says reviewer Sarah Bryan Miller, "the richest treat was the performance by pianist Richard Goode. One of the greatest American pianists of his or any generation, Goode performs with deceptive ease; he plays with complete mastery of his instrument and the score, and without histrionics ... His quiet energy, sensitivity and understated confidence, and a delicacy that underlined his consummate skill, made this a performance not to be missed."

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Gidon Kremer brings his US tour with pianist Daniil Trifonov, a member of his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, to a close with a performance in Carnegie Hall in New York City tonight. On the program are works by Mozart, Weinberg, and Schubert. The Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed, reviewing their recent concert at Disney Concert Hall, exclaims: "This was a performance of a lifetime."

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Audra McDonald joins the Naples Philharmonic, led by her musical director Andy Einhorn, for a sold-out performance at Hayes Hall in Naples, Florida, on Saturday.

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Brad Mehldau takes his European solo tour to Portugal, performing at the Cultural Centre of Belém in Lisbon tonight, following last night's performance in Porto.

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Conor Oberst continues his run at the Todos Santos Music Festival in Todos Santos, Mexico, with two performances this weekend. He returns to the Hotel California stage tonight, following a set there last night, then heads to Town Plaza for a performance on Saturday.

Oberst, who made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his latest album, Upside Down Mountain, last year, can be heard on the newly released concert album Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis, as can Punch Brothers, Rhiannon Giddens, and many more.

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Joshua Redman joins the WDR Big Band for a tour of Germany, performing at Funkhaus in Cologne on Saturday and at Café ADA in Wuppertal on Sunday.