Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 6-9 October
Web: www.laphil.com
Whether nurturing the Pan-American Music Initiative or conducting four concert performances of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, music director Gustavo Dudamel is all over a season that celebrates John Adams’s 75th birthday and, in February, Rachmaninov’s complete piano concertos. There’s Mahler in triplicate, launched in October by Dudamel, who pairs Symphony No. 1 with Gabriela Ortiz’s new violin concerto.
Apollo’s Fire
Shaker Heights, Akron, Bay Village, 8-15 October
Web: www.apollosfire.org
Thirtieth anniversary celebrations done and dusted, Jeanette Sorrell’s period instrument group promises ‘sparks of joy in a fragmented world’. There should be sparks aplenty in the first Ohio offering: Monteverdi’s . A ‘Baroque Bistro’ ushers in the new year, ‘Exiles’ tackles the
