Lee Eiseman

The right time for spouting about Schubert’s last piano music would have been last Sunday, when Jonathan Biss played the last in his series of three concerts at the Gardner Museum, each featuring one of Schubert’s final sonatas. But I wasn’t there to hear it, because it had been “super-sold-out” by the time I would have got a ticket.

Symphonics to duos being one matter, Rockport Music will see compressed orchestral works of Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff, even Rameau’s Suite in G Major from Nouvelles Suites de Piéces de Clavacin, finding their ways to a Steinway concert grand; also, on the French side of the program, Ravel’s Valses

A trio sine nomine comprising violinist Stella Chen, cellist Brannon Cho, and violist Matthew Lipman, created larger-than-life sonorities on superb instruments, at Rockport on Sunday. After the giant Mozart K. 563 Trio, guest pianist Evren Ozel made it four in a rip-roaring traversal of Fauré’s Pian

Lec-Dem HIPster David Hyun-Su Kim, known to some of us from previous Aston Magna outings, guest curated the presenter’s “Side by Side by Side” at the Allen Center in West Newton last night. Repeats Saturday night in Great Barrington.

Bard’s highly recommended but pretty-much sold-out run of Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète continues through next weekend. Tickets and particulars HERE.

An exquisitely detailed love quadrangle materialized among Tchaikovsky, Andris Nelsons, the more-than-willing BSO players, and us engrossed votaries in a Saturday night shed concert that also welcomed Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the Katchaturian Piano concerto and Tania Leon’s sparkling opener.

With its distinctive voice and dramatic engagement, the Jupiter String Quartet, impressed the Concord Chamber Music Society audience at the Concord Academy stage on Sunday afternoon.

This week’s BSO subscription concerts (Hannah Kendall’s O flower of fire (American premiere), Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra) welcome back pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the British-Italian-American conductor Sir Anthony Pappano. In his previous BSO stint, Sir A

Boston Symphony Chamber players kept the focus on winds, though piano and strings also took their places on the Jordan Hall stage Sunday afternoon.

Labyrinth, Menotti’s 50-minute blend of satire, surrealism, and moralizing received its American stage debut in Cambridge Chamber Ensemble’s clever revival at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center lats night. See it tonight or Sunday afternoon. Tickets HERE.