The pianist offers exceptional renditions on a restored 180-year-old fortepiano.

The brilliant lyric soprano's new CD highlights music by French composers of the Belle Époque along with Verdi and Puccini. Enter to win a copy from Blogcritics!

With a a blend of fireworks and atmospherics, Hirahara's trio conveys the sense of joy that marks jazz at its best.

Piazzolla's music contains multitudes of possibilities, gentleness always among them.

The Russian writer Teffi, whose real name was Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, enjoyed great popularity throughout the first half of the 20th century as she chronicled life in Russia before and after the Revolution and then as an emigre in Paris. But her work has faded into relative obscurity since. I …

Salon/Sanctuary contextualizes ancient music for modern audiences, and while there are countless concerts in New York City every week, no one else does precisely this.

A modern-day adult fairy tale that's perfect for a dark and stormy night.

This spicy little production of two one-act operas provides a mini-survey of the the 'Susannah' composer's talents as he progressed from a gifted youngster to a mature artist with a sensibility very much his own.

New four-disc set is a four-act "ballet" of Mitchell's songs above love curated by the artist herself, along with six new paintings by Mitchell.