Baritone Dmitri HvorostovskyThis is a holiday week, so there is not as much to list in the agenda. But are your best options if you want to hear some good music.
>> On Monday night (March 29, 8 p.m.), baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and soprano Sondra Radvanovsky give a duo recital, presented by Washington Performing Arts Society at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Marco Armiliato conducts the National Philharmonic.
>> Iván Fischer returns to conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in a Holy Week performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass (April 1 to 3) at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
>> German violinist Julia Fischer had to cancel her WPAS-sponsored concert of Bach solo partitas at the 6th and I Historic Synagogue next Saturday (April 3, 8 p.m.). Fortunately, violinist Joseph Lin will step in to take her place, even playing the same program.
>> Making up for a concert canceled by last month’s historic snowfall, the Candlelight Concert Society presents the Ariel String Quartet on Saturday (April 3, 8 p.m.) at Howard Community College’s Smith Theater in Columbia, Md.
>> The same evening (April 3, 8 p.m.) the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra will perform at the George Mason University Center for the Arts in Fairfax. Christoph Eschenbach, incoming music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, will conduct symphonies by Beethoven and Prokofiev, and Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang will play Prokofiev’s third piano concerto.
>> There are even free concerts to hear on Easter Sunday. Included in the price of admission to the Phillips Collection is a recital (April 4, 4 p.m.) by Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
>> The National Gallery of Art has just added a free concert on Easter Sunday (April 4, 6:30 p.m.), a performance of Stephen Hough’s Requiem Aeternam, a piece based on the music of Victoria. Violist Henry Valoris and cellist Marion Baker will join the National Gallery of Art String Quartet, in a concert co-presented by the Embassy of Spain.
