Classical Music
Philippe Jordan leads an exuberant, dramatically charged performance, with radiant soloists and a fervent Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
With new works by Douglas Lora and arrangements of Beethoven, Copland, and Liszt, the ensemble showcased its orchestral range in Worcester.
Malena Ernman and Ecstatic Ensemble bring three millennia of music into fresh focus in a compelling vocal programme that asks whose work we remember—and why.
Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” make a forceful pairing in the pianist’s fierce, illuminating new album.
Gianandrea Noseda leads sumptuous, finely wrought accounts of the composer’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, revealing music that deserves a wider hearing.
The composer leads a virtuosic debut recording of his Jorie Graham–inspired oratorio, whose striking invention is sometimes blunted by relentless intensity
A “Song of the Pirates” and feather-light scherzo movements stand out in world-premiere recordings led by Howard Griffiths—a welcome rediscovery of a composer admired by Mendelssohn and Schumann.
On his third recording of Benjamin Britten’s three solo cello suites, the Dutch cellist brings lucid intensity to their knotty arguments and haunting lyricism.
Rebekah Heller’s new album celebrates the instrument’s power, agility, and surprising expressive breadth.
A spirited recording, led by two outstanding sopranos, makes a persuasive case for the earliest surviving opera by a Black American composer—and for its long-neglected creator.
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