Reviews music

The Beatles legendary self-titled double album, aka The White Album, receives an exemplary six-CD, one-Blu-ray reissue.

'The Al Purdy Songbook' proves once and for all that poetry in the right hands is relevant to everyone and anyone.

The Juilliard String Quartet presented music by Beethoven and Dvořák and the NYC premiere of a new work by Lembit Beecher.

Hamelin's magical concert program flowed from Bach-Busoni to Schumann to Chopin, with twinkling detours into the 20th century.

With 'The Family,' Timber delivers imaginative, visibly supple coloration and ozone-like misty resonance.

This Italian string quartet has developed a tight, fluid ensemble sound as comfortable with the avant-garde as with Boccherini.

The monks retreated behind stone walls to chant their devotions. Composer Lansing McLoskey stands in the agora with his choral music on writings by Wole Soyinka.

On 'Stax '68: A Memphis Story,' history never looked so bleak while sounding so good. A brief glance at the track lists will begin to open your eyes, but the history of the record company from 1968 will blow your mind.

In the hands of a gifted group like Vox Luminis, Bach's motets exhibit the great composer's artistic genius as fully as anything else he wrote.

The album focuses more on the songs than on shredding, with Bonamassa's six-string wizardry worked into the arrangements rather than blatantly front and center. Still, his masterful solos remind us that we're in the hands of one of our era's greatest blues-rock guitarists.