A new CD from Kevin Puts features extremely interesting and inventive choral writing, but save the liner notes for after your first listen.

Piazzolla, de Falla, even Paganini all sing out in a sweet violin-plus-guitar CD, Histoire du Tango, by the terrific Augustin Hadelich and Pablo Sáinz Villegas.

[email protected]'s latest release is a luscious grab-bag of chamber music, much of it unfamiliar, nearly all of it performed as well as you're ever likely to hear it.

Cellist Steven Isserlis teams with composer/pianist Thomas Adès to record a recital they devised of rarely heard works, playing them superbly.

The S.F. Symphony beats the band, showing its idiosyncratic side in a terrific new release of scores by Cowell, Harrison, and Varèse.

Dipping into later-than-real-Baroque territory, Philharmonia Baroque clearly loves to perform Brahms Serenades, which it plays as if living in the style of his era.

ETHEL goes to great extremes to play down the fact that it’s a classical ensemble, but in the end it doesn’t matter. The album is great and well-played.

Magnificent playing, a fine new work commissioned from Lera Auerbach, and penetrating emotional currents mark violinist Vadim Gluzman’s new disc.

Handel’s little-known opera Atalanta receives a delightful outing in Philharmonia Baroque’s new release, sung by a stellar cast — in perhaps the sole recording in print.