Avant-garde

On his brilliant new album the keyboardist and guitarist has set thousand-year-old poems in Hebrew, Arabic and the other languages of Andalusia to bubbling stews of traditional instrumentation with strains of jazz and swatches of the Western avant-garde.

The award-winning cellist performs music by Nordic composers, including his longtime mentor and collaborator Per Nørgård, at National Sawdust Feb. 2.

I enjoyed myself and would definitely return.

The album presents distinctive approaches by composers Kelly-Marie Murphy and Avner Dorman to new music based on traditional tunes and themes.

The Juilliard String Quartet captured Beethoven at his brightest and darkest, with string quartets early and late.

The Hungarian bossa nova specialist's new album includes jazz, electronic, folk, and world music settings of poems by Verlaine, Garcia Lorca, T.S. Eliot and more.

Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing (CCOM) will perform U.S. premieres of music for modern symphony orchestra and traditional Chinese instruments at its American debut at Carnegie Hall.

With his invented instruments and appetite for recasting 20th-century American cultural touchstones, Harry Partch created works that still surprise us, as the new album from the ensemble Partch reminds us.

'From my first day, what jumps out at me, when going floor to floor, is the amazing range of music-making happening on a daily basis.'

The energy was bright at the Momenta Quartet's "Night Dances" concert featuring music by Harry Partch, Gyorgy Ligeti, and a Roberto Sierra world premiere.