Music

Exceptet's debut album explores the sonic possibilities of a lineup inspired by Stravinsky, with music by Katherine Balch, Paul Kerekes and Sarah Goldfeather.

The contemporary resurgence of the countertenor was on full display in a glorious concert staging of Handel's greatest opera.

While Nelson’s list of five-star releases is long, it’s hard to imagine that any of them outshine this album of Rodney Crowell covers.

Mark O'Connor's compositions made the juxtaposition of styles and centuries work smoothly, and created a joyful concert experience.

Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, Long After the Fire. This CD is a joint project by Vicki Peterson, who is best known as the Bangles’ lead guitarist, and her husband, John Cowsill, who struck gold as a singer and drummer in the siblings band the Cowsills. Here, they serve up …

In all these works, played magnificently by Jing Yang, Vigeland makes conscious and effective use of the piano's acoustical properties to create sound worlds that couldn't exist in the same way if played by orchestral instruments.

Ole Red, Blake Shelton's new venue on the Las Vegas Strip, became my new favorite hangout and I discovered a great band, Paige and the Overtones.

Meek's work is arguably less formulaic than Phil Spector’s and even more experimental and diverse.

When is an improvisation more than an improvisation? When a spontaneous collaboration gels into something that's more the sum of its parts.

A classical-music supergroup? That's the Principal Brothers: four Black principal (first-chair) woodwind players, who joined forces for a chamber concert with music from Bach to new works written for them.