This Italian string quartet has developed a tight, fluid ensemble sound as comfortable with the avant-garde as with Boccherini.

The acclaimed composer talks about his life, his working methods, and the music he loves, as U.S. performances of his 'Travel Notebook' approach.

Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan talks about his upcoming U.S. concerts with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra presenting music by Shostakovich and Maltese composers Alexey Shor and Joseph Vella.

The monks retreated behind stone walls to chant their devotions. Composer Lansing McLoskey stands in the agora with his choral music on writings by Wole Soyinka.

Fever-pitched and fully rounded, Andre de Vanny's performance in Conor McDermottroe's one-man play takes us on a dark ride of the heart and lands a punch right in the gut.

The tempestuous story of Shakespeare's Sycorax, the witch present only in name in 'The Tempest'

In the hands of a gifted group like Vox Luminis, Bach's motets exhibit the great composer's artistic genius as fully as anything else he wrote.

The Gallery Players' well-played revival of this Pulitzer-winning play explores the Cuban custom of a reader entertaining factory workers with romantic novels.

The album focuses more on the songs than on shredding, with Bonamassa's six-string wizardry worked into the arrangements rather than blatantly front and center. Still, his masterful solos remind us that we're in the hands of one of our era's greatest blues-rock guitarists.

Together the musicians craft the feel of a much larger band, taking turns evoking the bandoneón through technique and imaginative force, and summoning orchestral depth by turns dark and brilliant.