Thomas Adès conducts Boston Symphony Orchestra in works from Dante. Jeremy Denk joins Takács Quartet in Florida. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi are in Italy, as is Cécile McLorin Salvant. Mary Halvorson tours Germany and Austria. Tigran Hamasyan is at JazzFestBrno. The Magnetic Fields tour Texas. Brad Mehldau leads Bozar residency in Brussels. Steve Reich, on film, performs Clapping Music with Russell Hartenberger, in person, in Ontario. Molly Tuttle is at Charleston Bluegrass Festival and Suwannee Spring Reunion. Vagabon joins Weyes Blood in San Francisco.
Thomas Adès conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Inferno and Paradiso—two works from Dante, his ballet score in three acts based on Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia—this afternoon and Saturday at Boston Symphony Hall. These follow last night’s performance of the program, which also includes Stravinsky’s Perséphone.
The premiere recording of Dante, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in concert at Disney Hall, is due April 21 on Nonesuch. “In any new shortlist of great ballet scores by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bartók, Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten, and Bernstein, Dante must newly be included for its musical invention alone,” exclaims the Los Angeles Times. “There is not a second in its 88 minutes that doesn’t delight. All of it is unexpected and wanted.”
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Jeremy Denk joins the Takács Quartet to perform Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat Major, op. 44, at Tiedtke Concert Hall in Winter Park, Florida, on Saturday. Also on the program, presented by The Bach Festival Society, are Haydn and Mendelssohn string quartets.
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Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi return to his home country of Italy to perform songs from their Grammy-winning album They’re Calling Me Home, which speaks to the longing for the comfort of home, at the FolkClub in Turin tonight.
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Mary Halvorson wraps up her European tour with the Amaryllis Sextet—trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, trombonist Jacob Garchik, bassist Nick Dunston, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, and vibraphonist Patricia Brennan—with performances at Jazzclub Unterfahrt in Munich tonight and the Alter Schlachthof in Wels, Austria, on Saturday. Nonesuch Records released Halvorson’s twin label debut albums, Amaryllis, which featured all of the performers in the Sextet, and Belladonna, with Mivos Quartet, last year. The Guardian called the recordings “new landmarks in Halvorson’s already inimitable discography."
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Tigran Hamasyan Trio—drummer Jonathan Pinson and bassist Jeremy Bruyère—play a set at Sono Centrum in Brno, Czech Republic, tonight as part of JazzFestBrno. Hamasyan and the trio on his new album of American standards, StandArt—bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Justin Brown—filmed a full concert performance of songs from StandArt, in France, which you can watch here.
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The Magnetic Fields continue their US tour with shows in Texas with special guest Lomelda at The Heights Theater in Houston tonight and at The Paramount Theatre in Austin on Saturday. The tour includes songs from throughout their career, from 69 Love Songs to the autobiographical 50 Song Memoir and their most recent album, Quickies.
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Brad Mehldau plays two nights in Bozar’s Henry Le Boeuf Hall in Brussels, tonight and tomorrow, as part of a three-night Bozar residency that began in a duo concert with Ian Bostridge last night. The pianist/composer joins the Belgian National Orchestra and conductor Clark Rundell for his Piano Concerto tonight, following the orchestra’s performance of Debussy’s Préludes. Mehldau then gives a sold-out solo recital on Saturday. His new live solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released on Nonesuch last month. Mojo gives the record four stars, calling it “an inspired set that reveals new ways of hearing pop classics."
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Steve Reich joins Russell Hartenberger virtually for a semi-live performance of his Clapping Music at Meridian Arts Centre’s George Weston Recital Hall in North York, Ontario, on Saturday. In a presentation conceived and directed by Atom Egoyan, Hartenberger performs his part live to the composer’s previously filmed performance of his part. Reich and Hartenberger can be heard recording the piece fully live on the Reich album Early Works released on Nonesuch in 1987. Also on Saturday's program is the Canadian premiere of Reich/Richter by Soundstreams Canada—the first recording of the piece was released on Nonesuch last year, performed by Ensemble intercontemporain and conductor George Jackson—and a performance of Drumming by TorQ Percussion Quartet and NEXUS, which celebrates its 50th anniversary and whose members Hartenberger, Bob Becker, and Gary Kvistad can be heard on the 1987 Nonesuch recording of the piece.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant celebrates today’s release of her new album, Mélusine—a mix of originals and interpretations of songs dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl—with the culminating concert of her European tour at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Italy, tonight. Also out today is a live performance video of the album track “Doudou,” which you can watch here. Salvant begins a North American tour at Koerner Hall in Toronto and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville next week.
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Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway perform at Woodlands Nature Reserve in Charleston, South Carolina, for the opening of the Charleston Bluegrass Festival. Tuttle then joins The Infamous Stringdusters as a special guest at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live, Oak, Florida, on Saturday as part of the Suwannee Spring Reunion.
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Vagabon continues her tour as a special guest of Weyes Blood with two shows at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Saturday (sold out) and Sunday. The tour heads next to Phoenix, Santa Fe, Austin, and Dallas, culminating at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa on April 2.
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