Avant-garde

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

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.

Two stellar Curtis students joined Vieaux and violist Roberto Díaz in music by de Falla, Piazzolla, Paganini and Zhou Tian.

A “secret” 1999 concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire music venue by a fired-up Rolling Stones included some rarely heard numbers.

The juxtaposition of Astor Piazzolla's Nuevo Tango, featuring a master bandoneonist, with Erwin Schulhoff's volatile cultural milieu and the explosive expressionism of Unsuk Chin made for a crackling good concert experience.

Leon Botstein led The Orchestra Now and guests in a well-rounded appreciation of the music of the great American iconoclast.

Their Dvořák and Samuel Barber resonated, but their revival of George Crumb's Vietnam War protest 'Black Angels' was the star of the show.

The Junction Trio's 92NY debut was a smartly conceived program of Shostakovich, Brahms, and a funny shocker of a world premiere by John Zorn.

The Clarion Choir finished its celebration of Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary with a collaborative concert that included the dark 'Spring Cantata' and the extravagant Piano Concerto No. 3.