Aequa is one of a year's standout new-music album. Philip Glass's Symphony no. 11 suggests that the composer has more than a few tricks yet up his sleeve. And Neave Trio's Celebrating Piazzo…
An impressive collection of nine new releases (seven of which are reviewed here). While some might not displace the classic recordings of Debussy already out there, this gathering offers som…
Our critic's twelve favorite classical music performances that he reviewed this past year.
Handel & Haydn Society's Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins' recording of a Sea Symphony is one of the year's best releases; and for elegance and technical co…
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seat…
American String Quartet's disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota's String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I've heard all year.
Next summer promises to be a safe one, musically, at Tanglewood.
As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he's becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov's Rachmaninov album is magnificent; the Münchner Rundfunkorchester do right by Franz von Suppé's overtures, and the Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to unea…
Hilary Hahn supplies a disc of immaculate Bach; conductor Sakari Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic play music by Rued Langgaard to the hilt.
Andris Nelsons presided over an interpretation of Mahler's Symphony #2 that was both tightly controlled and emotionally cathartic.
JoAnn Falletta's recording of Schreker's orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven's Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a …
Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year's most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
What wasn't there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
If Charlie Harmon's story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it's at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
There's so much going on in the area that's good that it's a challenge to go wrong.
Two Mahler symphony entries: one is above average, the other a disappointment. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher delivers a first-rate and strongly recommended disc.
Night Triptych is an important disc, but also an inviting one that takes you to some fresh places well worth experiencing. Also, another success for harpsichordist Justin Taylor, and a well-…
Nearly three decades after he left us, Bernstein's music seems to be in good hands and anything but forgotten. And his larger musical influence strongly endures.
A winning reminder of Sir Neville Marriner' impressive stylistic range as a conductor, a fine recording of a much-loved and -played Richard Strauss tone poem, and a striking, powerful prese…
Aspects of America, from the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalman, is at once superbly played, astutely programmed, and aesthetically necessary.
Jonathan Nott does right by Ligeti and Herbert Blomstedt does the same for Mozart. You didn't know that Evgeny Kissin, the piano virtuoso, was also a composer? Join the club.
A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.
Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio's wonderful new French Moments.