Classical

This ensemble could develop some real star quality if they remain a unit.

A challenging and often dazzling multicultural program featured solo pieces and music for two pianos, with four guest pianists and two world premieres.

A cabaret vibe at a genre-spanning recital of American songs by a tenor at the height of his powers and a skillful accompanist

The meditative sound glows like the globe. Flowing melodies in the upper and middle voices cruise atop droning tones in the lower, like satellites passing high above the surface of the Earth.

This tribute from pianist Orli Shaham and biographer Sarah Fritz, soulfully played and historically contextualized, is a significant step in elevating Clara Schumann to her rightful place in classical music history.

A Village Trip Festival concert presented an eclectic variety of music and poetry by women: Kitty Brazelton, Sarah Kirkland Snyder, Liz Queler, and more.

A Village Trip Festival concert served up some wonderful Brahms; a bracing new work by William Kentner Anderson; and an "Homage to the New York School" that touched on some 20th-century music that has never worked for me.

The analogies to tarot cards might have been somewhat fanciful, but that's the magic of tarot: It becomes what you choose to make of it, as this concert and a current exhibit at the Morgan show.

Mozart's music symbolizes the artistic eclecticism and cross-pollination audience members experience at the Beijing Music Festival.

Stateside in 1967, folks were tuning in and dropping out, but in Paris they were tuning in to Thelonious Monk. "Monk Live In Paris, 1967, Volume Two" hits the streets on October 9.