Music
While Samantha Fish shines with her guitar work on the new album, she impressed more with her singing live.
Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.
A fresh, bracing take on Beethoven as a dramatist, Tesla Quartet serves up refreshingly direct and emotionally-complex performances of Mozart, and flautist Emmanuel Pahud has crafted an ear-catching, unpredictable program.
Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.
Billy Strings is deservedly catching fire with a unique blend of mind-snapping talent as a guitarist, deep appreciation for tradition, appetite for improvisation and experimentation, and ever-improving songwriting.
This year’s Revels is more than a parade of Christmas songs and stories that tap deep into America’s European and African past.
I had never heard of Marcus Paus before, but his work I Hate Men, set to witty verses by Dorothy Parker, proved to be one of the most entertaining and engaging pieces I have heard in recent years.
The current incarnation of the Swingle Singers, just called Swingles, exemplifies why the group has survived 57 years.
This year has brought a bumper crop of wonderful recordings of unusual operas — and one unusual recording of a repertory staple: Gounod’s Faust.
Top Classical Concerts and Recordings of 2019
Classical music continued to thrive, locally and globally, in 2019.
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