Pianist Richard Goode joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Vladimir Jurowski, for a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor at Royal Festival Hall in London on Saturday. Goode's 1996 recording of the concerto with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Nonesuch was voted Stereo Review’s Record of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy. The New York Times described Goode’s performance of Concerto No. 20 as "temperamental and dramatic … a darkly Beethovenian interpretation of one of Mozart’s most Beethovenian works."

Speaking of Beethoven, Goode's Grammy-nominated recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas, first released on Nonesuch in 1993, is available once again in a new ten-CD box set, at a lower price, starting today. "An outstanding set," exclaims the New York Times. "It is hard to think of any other artist at once technically, temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas." The Guardian calls it "superb." Gramophone says it's "one of the finest interpretations ever put on record."

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Composer John Adam’s 1986 fanfare for orchestra, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, is performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Macelaru, at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Saturday. The program, part of the Center’s Leonard Bernstein at 100 series, also features Bersntein’s Divertimento, as well as Aaron Copland’s Symphony for Organ and Orchestra and Appalachian Spring.

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Sam Amidon continues his fall tour of North America, in support of his latest album, The Following Mountain, in Colorado this weekend. He performs at Daniels Hall in Denver tonight, then joins Swedish acoustic trio Väsen for a live taping of public radio’s eTown, at eTown Hall in Boulder on Sunday. The Chicago Reader, in a preview of Amidon’s upcoming show at Lincoln Hall, calls the new album “superb,” writing that everything Amidon does “feels explicitly alive and charged by the world around him.”

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Fleet Foxes continue their Crack-Up world tour with a concert outdoors at The Waiting Room in Omaha tonight, followed by two sold-out shows at The Palace Theatre in St. Paul on Saturday and Sunday. The band concludes the North American leg of the tour with two sold-out shows at The Chicago Theatre next week, before heading back to Europe in November and to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Malaysia in December and January. Billboard called the band’s sold-out show at the Hollywood Bowl last weekend a “triumphant return.”

Fleet Foxes' performance on Live from the Artists Den will premiere on PBS stations across the US starting this weekend, airing in LA, Chicago, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Spokane, and more. The roll-out of the episode, with songs from the band's new album, Crack-Up, and more, continues in the coming weeks with more than three dozen air dates scheduled already, including in Atlanta, San Francisco, NYC, and Nashville.

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Rhiannon Giddens continues her US tour, featuring music from her new album, Freedom Highway, with performances at Germantown Performing Arts Center outside Memphis, Tennessee, tonight; Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday; and Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Maryland, on Sunday.

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Emmylou Harris is the special guest of Ryan Adams at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight. She gives a headline performance at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday, and a set at Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Stephens Lake Park in Columbia, Missouri on Sunday. Harris spoke to the Cap Times ahead of tonight’s show; you can read the interview here.

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Kronos Quartet continues its four consecutive nights of concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAM Harvey Theatre tonight and Saturday, as part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival. The quartet is joined by vocalist Rinde Eckert and percussionist Vân-Ánh Võ to perform Jonathan Berger’s My Lai, a collaboration with Kronos’s David Harrington and Võ informed by events of the Vietnam War, with a libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman. The piece was written for tenor, string quartet, and Vietnamese instruments; the production was directed by Eckert and Mark DeChiazza with video projection design by DeChiazza and lighting design by Brian H. Scott. The New York Times, reviewing Wednesday's opening-night performance, declares: "It was a gripping affair, beginning to end."

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Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, takes his Salutations tour out West this weekend, with concerts at Belly Up in Aspen on Saturday and Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City on Sunday. The Independent gives Salutations a perfect five stars, calling it "the best work of the singer’s career."

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Joshua Redman and his Quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—are in Johannesburg, South Africa, this weekend, performing at the Sandton Convention Centre tonight and Saturday, as part of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival.

The New York Times writes: “Joshua Redman is one of the most visible jazz musicians of the last 15 years, which says something not just about his natural flow as an improviser and his command as a bandleader, but also about his willingness to use words … to represent jazz to the outside world.”

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Steve Reich’s Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ is performed by the New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Linville, at New World Center in Miami Beach on Sunday. The Times of London calls Music for Mallet, Instruments, Voices, and Organ “an entrancingly crystalline piece.” Also on Sunday’s program, titled Percussion Consort: Alien Jungle, are works by George Crumb and István Márta.