Concert Music

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

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

Redpath's wonderful control of shifts in mood and register charmed and impressed in French chansons by Poulenc, Debussy, Fauré and Messaien.

Despite the presence of Stravinsky's 'Firebird,' it was a large new work by Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Reid that proved the program's creative centerpiece.

The Dover Quartet brought fervor and excitement to music both familiar and not-so-familiar, including a string quartet by the great 20th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

At his recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Crosett showed ability and fire to spare, with plenty of charisma and good humor to boot.

There's always more to discover in the annals of 20th-century American music. Violist Jonathan Bagg makes valuable contributions to our awareness of some worthy viola repertoire – and of some neglected American composers.

Ginsburg and Scalia weren't the only music-loving Justices. In a previously unreleased song, Michaels adapted and set the text of a letter from Justice David H. Souter praising a classical album.