Richard S. Ginell

For her new album, Root Progressions, Cheng commissioned six composers to write music that goes beyond genres and idioms.

Gustavo Dudamel’s interpretation may be more controlled now, but it still has youthful dash and vigor.

Gustavo Dudamel leads a visceral, full-throttle performance that would surely win over skeptics of this work.

Baritone Simon Keenlyside and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova perform Mahler’s early songs with Dudamel and the orchestra.

Conductor Xian Zhang returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall with this rarity, and pianist George Li plays Tchaikovsky.

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads the LA Phil in the great composer’s 2023 trumpet concerto, HUSH.

Under conductor Eun Sun Kim, the Rachmaninoff-heavy concert also includes composer Nico Muhly’s latest work.

Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is brilliant in Beethoven, and the orchestra responds marvelously to Ticciati.

Sony Classical has put out a 22-CD anthology that captures the heyday of recordings devoted to this American composer.

A magnificent performance of Schoenberg’s massive cantata, led by Zubin Mehta, caps a mini festival of the composer’s early works.