Classical

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

Finally, New York Festival of Song has released a recording of this curiosity from 1953.

This 90-minute oratorio tells the story of Jewish WWII-era refugees finding a home and community in Shanghai.

The Cassatt Quartet played Beethoven, Victoria Bond, and works by Joan Tower and Adolphus Hailstork for the unconventional pairing of trombone and string quartet.

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

The Aspect Chamber Music Series presents the Ariel Quartet with music of Beethoven, and Philippe Quint, Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Sergey Antonov with Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

Musicians from Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Germany to join Hong Kong colleagues for a series of concerts and special events from Nov. 11 to Dec. 3 in Hong Kong.

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.