Jasper Snow leads from the vielle through rare surviving polyphony, some of it recovered from reused parchment, with works by Johannes Ciconia and Zacara da Teramo.
A working quartet led by trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, who also plays electronics, with piano, bass and drums. Two sets in a small, artist-focused room.
Opera Praktikos rebuilds Bellini and Romani's The Sleepwalker so spoken, sung, and signed languages work as one voice, with accessibility built in from the start rather than added on.
Bassist-composer Alexis Cuadrado brings an album of silent film scores to the stage with a big band of violin, vibraphone, trombone, reeds, and Miles Okazaki on guitar.
Björn Schmelzer leads an ensemble known for visceral, ornament-rich early music, answering the Siena bronzes show. Wander the galleries while it plays, or claim one of the few seats.
A newly commissioned work from Becca Stevens on guitar and vocals, joined by Gretchen Parlato, banjoist Brad Kolonder and bassist Alan Hampton, in a small room built for close listening.
Hannah Ishizaki is writing a one-act chamber opera in 11 scenes, retelling the folk story The Crane's Gratitude for three vocalists, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
A pianist known for lucid Beethoven and Schubert pairs Mozart's sonatas K. 330 and K. 457 with Poulenc's Improvisations and Debussy's L'isle joyeuse, Mozart heard through a French lens.
Four rising composers each write new music answering an illustration from Hildegard von Bingen's codices, brought to life with animations and projections in an immersive setting.
Saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran celebrate their album on Imani Records, exploring space, time, and melody through a shared fascination with musical ancestry.
A duo since their student days share one keyboard for Schubert and Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, with solos of Chopin nocturnes, Ustvolskaya's explosive Sixth Sonata and Beethoven's Op. 109.
Son Lux play two nights in the Main Hall for their forthcoming album Out Into, each with different openers. A newly made single-channel film with stereo sound runs as a 17-minute loop.
Built around the young Bach's trek on foot to study with Buxtehude, this Baroque program sets works by both composers beside other masters, played by cello, violin and harpsichord.
Bridge's Idylls sit beside Britten's Divertimenti, teacher and pupil, before Mozart gives the cello rare prominence. Conrad Tao then joins the quartet for Schumann's piano quintet.
Emily Wells's opera, years in the making, in workshop form: a "mirror father" and the phantom daughter he dreams of compare queerness, art, and why neither chose a child.
A Bristol trio playing Somewhere Good, their first new music since On The Turning Ground. Pitchfork called it blissful psych-pop with washed-out breakbeats, harpsichord interludes and dubby balladry.
Ravel and Bizet's outward-looking art songs meet music sung by its own people: Golijov's Ayre, a Fairuz lament, and a traditional song from Chaieb's own heritage.
Javanese singer and composer Peni Candra Rini weaves Sufi poetry into contemporary music, joined on stage by ethnomusicologist Andy McGraw and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily.
Composer Matthew Aucoin curates and performs works by Lisa Illean, Mark Simpson, Tom Coult, and Alex Paxton, rarely heard here, joined by Royal Academy of Music players and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.
A teenage prodigy takes on Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata, framed by two Chopin nocturnes and Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2, in a program of formidable scale.
