Top-notch Dvorák performances get the lightness and the dance influence in the music.
Risks pay off on a highly stylized album with lavish orchestral arrangements that only elevate the singer's trademark vulnerability.
Meticulously plotted rhythms carry listeners through a mix of songs and indie electronic instrumentals on the composer's vibrant sophomore album.
Normandy's premier experimental black metal outfit enter a new exploratory musical phase without forsaking their origins.
The band shave off the rough edges of the dance punk sound, replacing it with newfound sonic power.
This collection of 29 single sides from one of the great R&B combos of the '60s is a master class in the art of the clean, deep groove.
Pathbreaking rethinking of the early American repertory by the Boston Camerata.
Enveloping Luaka Bop debut from the Danish instrumental duo that begs to be listened to in one sitting.
Composer Patrick Zimmerli's engaging, hybridized jazz and classical suite features saxophonist Joshua and chamber ensemble Brooklyn Rider.
The follow-up to the super-trio's Grammy-winning debut features more vibrant concert performances.
Recorded a few months before Neal Casal's passing, these jams were cut in a single day with uber-drummer Joe Russo joining the quartet.
The experimental rap trio's third Sub Pop full-length is their interpretation of the horrorcore subgenre.
A modest yet deeply felt album that showcases Jinks' strengths as a singer and songwriter.
On his second album released in October 2019, Cody Jinks gets introspective.
The long-running band have never sounded punker, sadder, or more alive than on this excellent album.
Lovely set of Mozart trios masters the trick of intimacy writ large.
Awe-inspiring performances reflect on the fugue and its continuing significance, with a blistering performance of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge.
The animated art-rapper's ruminative second Warp album, executive produced by Q-Tip.
Deathprod's first full album in 15 years is "an anti-fascist ritual," protesting hatred through sheer, uncompromising sound.
The first Desert Sessions album in 16 years is a surprisingly bright, playful, and concise affair.
Awash in the damp grays and socio-political malaise of Brexit, the veteran post-Brit-poppers navigate the brackish waters with empathy and steely acceptance.
Emmanuelle Bertrand gives spontaneous performances of Bach's Cello Suites, playing an early 18th century cello with a Baroque bow.
The excellent debut album from the Philly noise punks tempers chaos with vulnerability.
The French singer's fourth album is her usual blend of obscure covers and string originals delivered in cool and reverent '60s style.
Sam Shepherd's engrossing second album veers from motionless ambient interludes to bracing techno tracks.
Lush electro-acoustic production and complex songwriting make the third album from this dream pop project a genre standout.
The gifted Guatemalan vocalist and the iconic American producer and arranger create an ornate, cross-cultural song cycle.
Soprano Harriet Burns impresses in her debut album, part of Hyperion's complete cycle of Brahms songs.
The singer/pianist returns to his big band for a romantic and swinging celebration of Cole Porter's music.
On the eve of her 40th birthday, the virtuoso pianist surveys what she's learned and integrated into her music over the last decade.
The Queens native reunites with producer Mono en Stereo (formerly RTNC) for a set of pointed observations set to ambling jazz and funk grooves.
Third time's a charm as Bostridge's third Winterreise has a wonderful detailed, burnished quality.
Beautifully rendered early Verdi arias augur well for Abdrazakov's new tenure at Deutsche Grammophon.
The full release of the scorching October 1969 homecoming concert that was later excerpted on the 1970s double-LP Sex Machine.
Recorded live in the artist's home studio in Wales with local players, the expatriate American singer reaffirms his soul roots here.
The Delta blues singer collaborates with Black Key Dan Auerbach on his richest-sounding album.
A late-career peak, the Arizona quartet approaches middle age by maturing their emo-rock sound.
An all-Schumann program that may surprise some listeners is presented live by John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Hugely enjoyable postwar works by Korngold effectively fuse symphonic and cinematic idioms.
Gerald Finley and Julius Drake perform a compelling program of Schubert's Schwanengesang and Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge.
Lush collection of English Romantic works lightened by Renaissance and contemporary pieces.
The Irish band's second album for Rough Trade is a vigorously played, smartly arranged long game that manipulates and celebrates its traditional folk roots.
A vivid re-creation of the creative partnership of Clara and Robert Schumann.
Geoffrey Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris present music from the Baroque era, highlighting the period's emphasis on strong emotional expressions.
This multi-faceted and curious collection finds the noise rock institution still growing and developing nearly a quarter century in.
Fourth album from Vancouver duo incorporates the best elements of their ever-shifting dark pop muse.
The second Lisa Prank album is a full-band affair that spices the garage punk rippers with some soft and sad pop songs.
For this 2019 Naïve album, Mariana Flores and Hopkinson Smith explore the full range of emotions in John Dowland's lute songs.
This hour-plus live encounter is imaginative, poetic, and far reaching in both communication and discovery.
Zippy, yet somehow intimate readings of Falla's evergreen hits.
Utilizing a new band, the artist digs further into her family's history, and American and cultural mythology, delivering a necessary entry in her large project.
The singer/songwriter's impressively huge-sounding and inventively arranged fourth album finds him fully playing the part of a classic rock troubadour.
Crossover guitarist Karadaglić takes the genre into the new territory of alternative rock.
Ian William Craig and Missy Donaldson's otherworldly duo debut puts Craig's fractured sound experiments in the context of structured acoustic song.
This marvelous collection of songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood resonates as deeply in the 2010s as ever.
Superb recital emphasizing the continuing influence of the pianistic tradition beginning with Chopin.
The iconic culture jammers examine the media's effect on our mental health and our perception of reality.
Inspired by a collection of forgotten photos, the band, friends, and family celebrate the ties that bind with rocking Hill Country blues.
A joyous, rowdy concert tailored to the history of the famed Ryman, home of the Grand Ole Opry.
On their eponymous third album, Old Dominion ease into a collection of songs designed for romance and relaxation.
Pauline Kim Harris and Spencer Topel have created two ambient works that suggest the infinite through acoustic and electronic means.
Pavel Kolesnikov performs a collection of Chopin's short piano pieces, paying close attention to details and musical proportions.
Riccardo Chailly leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in vivid performances of Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra and other tone poems.
The band's third album harkens back to their '90s indie pop glory while adding new tricks, nearly topping their brilliant debut.
A delightful collection of British works, more sketches than tone poems, of the early 20th century.
The first solo album in decades from the musical visionary behind the High Llamas is also one of his hookiest, most focused in ages.
Decades into a revered catalog, storied Omaha singer/songwriter offers up one of his best, most focused collections.
Developed while on tour, Hauschildt's sixth solo album contains some of his most spontaneous-sounding work.
A weighty box set filled with alternate takes, live performances, and other rarities.
Adventurous producer returns after five-year hiatus with a mature collection of ethereal beat-forward ambience.
Here the trio provides ample, canny evidence that they are a fully integrated persona whose collective heart is full of jazz imagination.
A career-defining evolution for the Ohio metalcore crew that pushes genre boundaries and atmospheric scope.
Extensive box set rounding up the Fall's 1982 output, most notably including the bleak masterpiece Hex Enduction Hour.
On his sixth album in four years, the Irish singer/songwriter soulfully returns to all-original material for the first time since 2016.
The band dive deeper into '80s album rock and radio pop on this joyous slice of carefree good-time music.
Jeff Tweedy and his bandmates return after a hiatus with brave, challenging music that searches for hope in dark times.
A vigorous live performance of Monteverdi's sleazefest, from the Salzburg Festival.
Accompanied by more than 30 players, the British-Bahraini composer and instrumentalist delivers a tribute suite to iconic women.
A rousing and oft-hilarious career-spanning set of tracks by the noisy, off-kilter band from the '90s Scottish pop underground.