Music Genres

Sometimes musicians create an atypical instrument combination simply because they have similar tastes or just like working together. Not so here – there's no sense of anything forced, or absent.

On the new 'Shadow Child' Lapell turns entirely inward for a soft-spoken standout about her journey to motherhood.

The placement of the different instruments in the listener's ears creates a sense of surrounding space; the bleed of one tone's decay into the attack of the next seems to smooth over the passage of time.

Groban takes on movie music, Batiste reinterprets popular Mozart melodies, and pianist Min Kwon commissions 76 variations on "America the Beautiful."

It was clear in this vibey number that the violinist and the band were feeling the spirit of the mariachi rhythms.

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.

Here are 21 of popular music’s most spectacular gargantuan anthologies, each featuring 10 or more discs.

The maestro of the Indian sarod and the Grammy-winning classical guitarist interlocked sound and spirit of East and West in their collaborations' NYC debut.

In this music Liang raises the process of creation to such an esoteric level that the substance thins out almost to the vanishing point.

"Living with this music over time has only deepened my understanding of the country and its people. The project now feels more like an ongoing conversation – something unfinished, and in progress, and very necessary."