Lyric Opera of Chicago – “I Puritani”: Bellini’s bel canto classic, which has been AWOL from the Lyric repertory since the 1991-92 season, returns in a revival of a production created for the Metropolitan Opera. Soprano Albina Shagimuratova (last season’s triumphant Lucia di Lammermoor) will portray the heroine Elvira, opposite tenor Lawrence Brownlee as her lover Arturo. Enrique Mazzola returns as conductor. Opens at 2 p.m. Sunday and runs to Feb. 28, Lyric Opera House, 20 N. Wacker Drive; $34-$279; 312-827-5600, www.lyricopera.org
Access Contemporary Music: The ever-innovative Chicago ensemble presents amplified new music by Kyong Mee Choi, Tansy Davies, Kaija Saariaho, Jacob TV and others – in movie-theater surround sound. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln Ave.; $25 at the door, $20 via the web, $15 for students; www.acmusic.org
Beyond the Aria: Tenor Lawrence Brownlee takes time out from his performances as Arturo in Lyric Opera’s production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” to present a cabaret-style recital of classical and popular fare, alongside Ryan Opera Center members Ann Toomey and Anthony Clark Evans. Artistic director Craig Terry is the pianist-emcee. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, stage of Jay Pritzker Pavilion (entrance from the Harris Theater), 205 E. Randolph St.; 312-334-7777, www.harristheaterchicago.org
Chicago Chamber Musicians: Works for strings and piano by Dvorak (including the “Dumky” Piano Trio) and Kodaly are performed by violinists Jasmine Lin and Joseph Genualdi, cellist Paula Kosower and pianist James Giles. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston; $40; 312-838-9419.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Music director Riccardo Muti leads the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto, a CSO co-commission, with orchestra trombonists Jay Friedman, Michael Mulcahy and Charles Vernon, and tubist Gene Pokorny, as soloists. The subscription concerts also hold works by Stravinsky and Britten, and French mezzo-soprano Clementine Margaine will sing Ernest Chausson’s “Poems of Love and the Sea.” 1:30 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $34-$221; 312-294-3000, www.cso.org
Eighth Blackbird and Amadinda: The University of Chicago Presents survey of music by the maverick Hungarian modernist Gyorgy Ligeti continues with arrangements for chamber ensembles of several Ligeti pieces, a work by the composer’s son Lukas Ligeti and pieces by Steve Reich and Aurel Hollo. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St.; $38, $10 for students; 773-702-2787, chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
Evanston Symphony Orchestra: Music director Lawrence Eckerling surrounds Rodrigo’s popular “Concierto de Aranjuez” with Spanish and Latin American showpieces by Ginastera, Piazzolla and Moncayo, plus evocations of Spain by Chabrier and Rimsky-Korsakov. Jason Blair Lewis is the guitar soloist. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston; $30, $25 for seniors, $5 for students; 847-864-8804, www.evanstonsymphony.org
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Akropolis Wind Quintet performs. 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington; free; www.imfchicago.org
Park Ridge Civic Orchestra: Pianist Andrew Palmer Todd joins music director Victor Muenzer and the orchestra for Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” The program also holds Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” symphonic suite. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Pickwick Theatre, 5 S. Prospect Ave., Park Ridge; $25, $20 for seniors and students, $5 for children; www.parkridgecivicorchestra.org
John von Rhein is a Tribune critic.
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