Avant-garde

Klartag's new work for choir and four double basses, the winner of the Azrieli Foundation's Commission for Jewish Music for 2024, investigates the limits of logic and reason in explaining reality and the metaphysical.

Symbiont Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge we face. Everyone from politicians to the person on the street have an opinion on whether it exists or what should be done about it. So this is a topic that’s ripe for artistic expression. With Symbiont Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin …

With a sound that mixed plangency and purity, and an almost palpable fearlessness, the Fourth Wall Ensemble did this wonderful music justice.

With 'Amelia' Laurie Anderson has created a beautiful and compelling recounting of the last voyage of Amelia Earhart.

Shabaka Hutchings focuses on the flute and related instruments such as the shakuhachi on these meditative, jazz-inflected tracks, while Timo Andres offers impactful concertos for piano and cello.

Heyward led the Festival Orchestra in classical and contemporary music inspired by the outdoors.

The 2024 Azrieli Music Prizes will be celebrated at a gala concert in October, including Mexican composer Juan Trigos, the inaugural winner of the newest Azrieli prize, the Commission for International Music.

Stellar technique and vast interpretive creativity make this wide-ranging release stand out among this year's many fine piano albums.

The Ukrainian-American pianist read from her memoir 'Weight in the Fingertips' and played classics and music written for her in honor of the book's publication.

Riverside Choral Society sang music of John Luther Adams and Alberto Grau and the New York premiere of 'The End of Rain' by Scott Ordway, an impassioned response to the California wildfires.