Upcoming and Noteworthy

IRIS Wired, The Classical Network's bi-monthly series of concerts by the IRIS Orchestra, this Friday (4/12 at 8 pm) features a program based on the theme of Springtime and Beauty. Founder, conductor and Artistic Director Michael Stern conducts the Hebrides Overture of Mendelssohn, Korngold's Violin Concerto with soloist Elena Urioste, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Schumann's Symphony No. 1 ("Spring").

Based in Germantown, Tenn., the IRIS Orchestra is made up of preeminent musicians from around the country and led by Maestro Stern, son of the legendary violinist.

Friday's (4-12) Noon Concert from Baruch Performing Arts Center includes Brian Mulligan singing Walden by Gregory Spears & Dominick Argento's From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.

Music in the Age of Tinoretto-Artist of Renaissance Venice is the title of the program we hear from Parthenia on Thursday's (4-11) Noon Concert. We'll hear music by Maschera, Tromboncino, Ruffo, Cara, Willaert, a half dozen or so other 16th to 17th century composers and Tomb Sonnets for countertenor & viol consort by contemporary composer Martin Kennedy.

Hear both sacred and secular music by William Byrd on Friday's Distant Mirror. The Choir of Winchester Catheral under David Hill perform Byrd's Mass for 3 Voices. Then two consorts: The Leaves Be Gren, a praeludium and ground with Capriccio Stravagante directed by Skip Sempe. Join Allan Kelly at 10pm.

James Jordan, professor and senior conductor at Westminster Choir College, hosts Sounds Choral this Sunday (4/14 at 2 pm), presenting Howard Goodall's Invictus: A Passion.

Schubert wanted success with opera. But the success eluded him, and often the operas did not make it on stage until far past his lifetime. This week's one act "The Four Year Post", waited until 1896, 68 years after his death, for its first staging.

The plot concerns Duval, who has deserted the army to remain with his wife Käthchen; when troops arrive to arrest him, he persuades the General – with the help of the villagers – that he has spent four years at his sentry post waiting for relief that never came, and he is released.

Sunday evening (4-14) at 11 we'll hear the Clarinet Concerto by Einojuhani Rautavaara and the Sinfonietta by his student, Kimmo Hakola.  Also on the program is Fisher Tull's Symphonic Treatise. Music from the past half-century on Half Past.

Wednesday 4-10 at noon on Curtis Calls we'll hear violinist Christine Lim and pianist Xiaohui Yang in Clara Schumann's Three Romances, op. 22, Robert Schumann's Sonata No. 1 and Beethoven's Sonata No. 7, op. 30, no. 2.  Performances from student recitals at the Curtis Institute, Wednesdays at noon and Monday evenings at 10.

On this Friday's (4-5) Noon Concert we'll hear pianist Zhenni Li in music by Claude Debussy, Beethoven, Mussorgsky and Samuel Szyman.  Violist Matthew Cohen joins her for York Bowen's Phantasy.

Thursday's (4/4) Noontime Concert from the ensemble Mélomanie features chamber music by three living composers: Matthias Maute,  Liduino Pitombeira & Roberto Pace, and Schiefendecker (1679-1732), Delalande (1657-1726) and  Guillemante (fl. 1750s) from the Baroque era.