The violinist’s solo album mixes musics expertly to explore personal and political themes.
Esa-Pekka Salonen gets a hero’s welcome in a live concert featuring an epic reading of Strauss’s Metamorphosen.
Jake Heggie and Gene Sheer’s moving chamber work addresses Nazi persecution of homosexuals.
A bearded Cecilia Bartoli is spectacular in the title role.
Reimagine is a delightful romp through contemporary miniatures in a wild range of styles, each a unique response to an earlier piano trifle.
The young violinist traces a history of American music from George Gershwin to Florence Price on his debut album.
The “classical, avant-punk” violin duo covers a lot of ground on three new CDs, from Brahms to the thorniest of contemporary composition.
The first opera in Cerise Lim Jacobs’s The Ouroboros Trilogy borrows heavily from Eastern lore and legends.
The electric guitar takes center stage in a range of settings on the composer/guitarist’s new three-album set.
This freshly imagined production packs an emotional wallop that transcends the limits of the small screen.
