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The Takács Quartet’s first violinist tracks his own history and those of favorite composers in Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home.

A DVD of the new ballet shows its onstage brilliance in addition to being a great score.

Cappella Romana discovers and performs music from a meeting in 1400 between the English king and the Byzantine emperor.

The Catalan composer has a champion in pianist Stephen Hough, who has just recorded a collection of Mompou’s miniatures.

Some of the soprano’s greatest roles are preserved in this two-CD set from the Metropolitan Opera.

A new recital album turns up a number of exciting bel canto rarities, along with familiar favorites — all beautifully sung.

But it’s the Clara Schumann Piano Trio that makes this recording particularly valuable.

The composer is far from his rock ’n’ roll roots with this recent recording of two major orchestral works.

In Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the composer teases out connections to jazz, surrealist film, and Ruth Asawa.

Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of recorded music released this year.