This year St. Patrick’s Day was on a Monday, a particularly cursed fate for a holiday associated with merriment. I propose extending the celebration all throughout the week — a feat of endurance that ...

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Francesco Piemontesi brings a lightness of touch to Schumann’s Piano Concerto, while the LPO excels in an extraordinary performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony ...