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The pop star has spent a life on the go, so the pandemic offered him a rare chance for reflection, to separate the person from the pop star. Also, of course, to record a new album.

The 2002 winner of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival performs Beethoven at the Schwetzingen Festival. Pianist Piotr Anderszewski plays one of Beethoven's piano sonatas, composed near the end of his life: the Piano Sonata number 31, opus 110. Anderszewski gave this performance just last week in Germany.

Strong thunderstorms swept through Wiggins Park in Camden, N.J., at 5:15 p.m. ET Saturday, forcing festival organizers to cancel the day of live music. Memphis hip-hop blues artist Citizen Cope had planned to join a bevy of other musicians for the live concerts, which were to webcast in their entirety on NPR.org.

Rachmaninoff's Vocalise takes on a life of its own in this transcription for cello and piano. This performance of it by Truls Mork and Kathryn Stott comes from a concert last fall at the University of Chicago.

Tim Seely's debut, Funeral Music, is a beautiful and intricate folk-pop album brimming with atmosphere. Seely briefly made a name for himself as the frontman of The Actual Tigers, an ambitious and talented pop unit that was cruelly lost in record label woes back in 2001.

Estonian native Eri Klas conducts the mixed student-and-professional orchestra of the National Orchestral Institute in Paul Hindemith's most popular work: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, in concert at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

With its insidious cloud of warm keyboards and droning sitars, Thievery Corporation's "This Is Not a Love Song" qualifies as hipster electronica: It's "Chariots Of Fire" for the indie-rock set, yet palatable enough for those who enjoy the music on VW commercials.

Gary Graffman, president of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, says goodbye Wednesday after 20 years as director of the influential music school. From Graffman's farewell concert, we'll hear him solo in the Concerto for Piano Left Hand by Maurice Ravel. Christoph Eschenbach leads the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.

From a concert at the Trinity Center for Urban Life in Philadelphia, we hear the world premiere of a work for harp: "Every Lover Is a Warrior" by Canadian composer Kati Agocs. It's based on folk tunes from Appalachia, France and Hungary, and is played by harpist Bridget Kibbey.

Thomas Dybdahl's voice has the emotional resonance of Jeff Buckley's and the vulnerability of Chet Baker's. His delicate but lush music recalls that of Tim Buckley, Nick Drake and other forward-thinking folk-rock songwriters who surrounded their basic guitar chords with layered arrangements.