Contemporary

At his recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Crosett showed ability and fire to spare, with plenty of charisma and good humor to boot.

Pianist Donald Pirone continues his long engagement with the music of Karol Rathaus on a new EP featuring the composer's fourth Piano Sonata.

Percussion music can sound dry and detached. Most of the music on Portland Percussion Group's new album is anything but.

Richard Carrick is out with the second part of his Maghreb-inspired triptych, which began with last year's 'The Atlas.'

A job interview in music form? Skillful interplay among the instruments and the contrasting moods of the responses show once again a sensibility deeply rooted in the human.

Ginsburg and Scalia weren't the only music-loving Justices. In a previously unreleased song, Michaels adapted and set the text of a letter from Justice David H. Souter praising a classical album.

Percussionist Bala Skandan's arrangements, performed by his fluid cast of musicians, mingle classical ragas with elements of Western music to create a decidedly unique listening experience.

Ueno's percussion music reminds us that as long as there's a musician and a listener, there is real physical interplay between the the sound and the auditor's biology.

The finale of Brahms' Symphony No. 4 teemed with extravagant passion and boasted a remarkably beautiful flute solo.

This bold new collection showcases music from a relative newcomer side-by-side with recent compositions by long-established contemporary composers.