Reviews music

I wish more people knew how fun Baroque music can be. The instrumental ensemble The Sebastians and the superb singers of the Yale Voxtet joined forces to prove it.

The Complete Budokan 1978 coilects two Bob Dylan concerts. Plus, new CDs from Dori Freeman, Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia, Kristen Grainger & True North, and Peter Rosendal.

The Ariel String Quartet and Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford shed light on the Early Quartets with Op. 18 No. 6 and more.

Reviews: a previously unissued 1967 Jimi Hendrix concert plus albums from Little Feat, Jon Dee Graham, Resonant Rogues, and Danny O'Keefe.

The Orchestra Now presented music from the 1940s by four composers who had fled their European homelands to escape the Nazis.

Reviews of an expanded edition of the Cranberries' "To the Faithful Departed," plus CDs from Lee Gallagher, the Three O'Clock, Sylvia Tyson, and Emma Wilson.

A box set collects highlights from Lynyrd Skynyrd's career; plus reviews of CDs from Leon Rosselson, Half Stack, Robert Finley, and Chest Fever.

The composer set out to "advance a scientific, atheistic vision of the world" using the musical structure of a Christian Mass and modern choral idioms.

The Belgian early music ensemble beautifully sheds light on Bach's early cantatas and on one major source of his inspiration.

'Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' is a terrific new book that contains previously unseen writings, drawings, handwritten lyrics, photos, and essays.