Reviews music

Brightly inventive in the service of a dim mood, the songs on Beat Circus' 'These Wicked Things' smell of existential desperation. It's one of the cooler albums to cross my transom this year.

The noise and ache that stream through these songs recall the blues, and support literate and often poetic lyrics.

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky and pianist Wu Qian gave sumptuous performances of music by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Grieg at Columbia University's Italian Academy.

New York-based cellist Inbal Segev continues to expand her range. The quality of the music in her latest program ranged from exhilarating to predictable. But her technique and sensitivity revealed all the works in advantageous light.

'Songs of Our Native Daughters' from Our Native Daughters is as rich and textured, and fraught with violence and emotional turmoil, as the history of Africans in the West.

Willie Nile was live in Kingston Ontario February 16 2019: If you have the chance, anytime anywhere, go see him - you won't regret it.

The newest Honens International Piano Competition winner demonstrated in his Carnegie Hall debut his deep interest in musical resonances over the centuries.

After the quartet performed Haydn and Kurtag, Hamelin joined them in a breathtaking performance of Dvorak's monumental second piano quintet.

Marty Haggard brings us joy and memories with his concert, “A Tribute to My Dad, Merle Haggard.”

The concert featured a closetful of varied recorders, most copied from original instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.