The best concerts to see at Mostly Mozart Festival in 2015

This event goes all-Mozart with symphonic works performed by the resident festival orchestra led by Louis Langrée, joined by soprano Erin Morley and the lauded pianist Emanuel Ax.

The famed Emerson String Quartet plays Mozart's Quartet in G minor and works by Haydn, Beethoven and Fauré with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. A preconcert recital begins at 6:30pm.

Violinist Alina Ibragimova (making her festival debut) and pianist Steven Osbourne are the featured soloists in this all-Prokofiev program.

The Danish String Quartet takes on Mozart's arrangements of the second and fourth fugues from the second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Thomas Adè's Arcadiana, Op. 12 and Beethoven's heart-stopping Grosse Fuge in B-flat major, Op. 133 in this late-evening recital.

Age-old authenticity debates aside, it's always illuminating to hear music played on period instruments. In its festival debut, the Academy of Ancient Music presents a matinee program of works Mendelssohn composed after his 1829 tour of Scotland.

The excellent International Contemporary Ensemble plays a program of the equally exciting contemporary composer Dai Fujikura in its turn at the festival's late-night candlelight series.

If you only make it to one Mostly Mozart engagement, make it to one of the three performances of George Benjamin's Written on Skin in its U.S. premiere. The 2012 tale of betrayal stars the magnificent Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.

The International Contemporary Ensemble returns in a promising program that includes Messiaen, Ligeti and Mostly Mozart composer-in-residence George Benjamin.

Famed violinist Joshua Bell joins the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra under Andrew Manze for works by Mozart and Schumann, and then Bell takes over the baton for two pieces by Bach.

Haydn's masterful "The Creation" closes the festival, with the festival orchestra, conducted by Louis Langrée; soprano Sarah Tynan; tenor Andrew Staples; bass Brindley Sherratt; and the Concert Chorale of New York. A preconcert lecture takes place at the Stanley H. Kaplan Playhouse on Fri 21 at 6:30pm.