Editor Pick: Music

A classical-music supergroup? That's the Principal Brothers: four Black principal (first-chair) woodwind players, who joined forces for a chamber concert with music from Bach to new works written for them.

The pianist spoke with us about his upcoming concert at Carnegie, his Chopin project, and commissioning new music from Colorado to Eastern Europe.

Throughout the concert the young musicians showed a high level of collective polish and individual skill to go with their infectious enthusiasm.

Liszt's B minor sonata gives a pianist opportunities to show off blazing technique. But interestingly, Zhang's particular skills allow him to find greater depths of feeling in the piece than I'm used to hearing.

The quartet's new album harvests the creativity of five composers, each marshaling in their own style loadbang's unique sound world.

Zhang plays Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' and Liszt's B minor Sonata on his latest recording.

Music from the court of Charles XI of Sweden, "a deliberate crossroads of European music and musicians."

Having recently marked his 80th birthday, Maestro Slatkin looked as fit and energized as ever conducting Corigliano, Shostakovich and McTee.

These four works, each remarkable in its own way, spotlight the wide-ranging skills and creativity of recorder virtuoso Jeremias Schwarzer himself as well as the composers' challenging and distinctive visions.

Klezmer music inspired a dazzling three-movement work by Noah Bendix-Balgley, who takes the tradition to new ground. The program also included dances famously reimagined by Bartók and Brahms.