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Polly Want An Ostinato?
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
(17 May)
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An Evening With Nico Muhly, 'Two Boys' And Other Works
Join us for an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined by close friends including singers Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
(16 May)
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An Evening With Nico Muhly, 'Two Boys' And Friends
Join us for an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined by close friends including singers Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
(16 May)
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Andris Nelsons Named Music Director Of The Boston Symphony
The announcement that the 34-year-old Latvian conductor is taking the reins of the ensemble puts an end to years of uncertainty at the storied orchestra, following James Levine's 2011 resignation.
(16 May)
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Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
(16 May)
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Live Now: National Symphony Orchestra At Spring for Music
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
(11 May)
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Tonight At 7:30 PM ET: National Symphony Orchestra At Spring for Music
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
(11 May)
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Joshua Bell And Jeremy Denk On 'Song Travels'
Connect the dots between classical music and standards with the dynamic violin-and-piano duo.
(10 May)
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An Evening With Nico Muhly And Friends
Join us for an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined by close friends including singers Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
(10 May)
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Will Work For Feed
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
(10 May)
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Come Dance The 'Rite Of Spring' With Us!
We're inviting you to create your own video using the last minute of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Dance it, animate it, improvise it, whatever you like — and then upload your creation to YouTube before May 28th. We'll be featuring some of the best videos on NPR Music in the weeks ahead.
(10 May)
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An Evening With Nico Muhly And Friends
Join us for an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined close friends including singers Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
(9 May)
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Live From LPR: An Evening With Nico Muhly And Friends
Join us for an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Muhly is joined close friends including singers Paul Appleby and Jennifer Zetlan, violist Nadia Sirota and duo violinists Angela and Jennifer Chun.
(9 May)
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Moms In Opera: Women On The Edge
Just try rummaging through the standard repertoire to find a tender scene between a mother and child and you'll come up stymied. Why are so many operatic moms depicted as murderous women on the verge of a nervous breakdown?
(9 May)
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'Show Boat' Steams On, Eternally American
A revival of the Hammerstein-Kern classic showcases once again the rich tapestry and timeless themes of an American saga that changed the course of musical theater — and confronted audiences with painful truths about our history.
(8 May)
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Spring for Music: National Symphony Orchestra
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
(7 May)
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Ólafur Arnalds, Live In Concert
How can music be happy and sad at the same time? Listen to Arnalds' work and you'll hear it. This performance at New York City's (Le) Poisson Rouge re-imagines the Icelandic musician's magnificent work with a small orchestra: 28 musicians known as Ensemble LPR, along with guest singer Arnor Dan.
(7 May)
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Do You Have To Nearly Kill Yourself To Become A Classical Musician?
A pianist ponders how far he's gone to learn to play his instrument — and suggests you try, too. Though James Rhodes says he encountered massive medical and marital problems in his quest, he believes even amateur music-making beats prepackaged entertainment.
(7 May)
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Ólafur Arnalds, Live In Concert
How can music be happy and sad at the same time? Listen to Arnalds' work and you'll hear it. This performance at New York City's (Le) Poisson Rouge re-imagines the Icelandic musician's magnificent work with a small orchestra: 28 musicians known as the LPR Ensemble, along with guest singer Arnor Dan.
(7 May)
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Nicola Benedetti: Tiny Desk Concert
Watch the young violinist spin out music by John Williams and Bach in sweet and soulful tendrils of sound. Wielding a 1717 Gariel Strad worth $10 million, Benedetti performs with warmth and approachable grace that's simply enchanting.
(6 May)
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The Chrome Depot
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
(3 May)
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What Do You Get Valery Gergiev For His 60th Birthday?
Today marks the superstar conductor's birthday. So what do you get for the man with plum posts the world over? In the case of Russian president Vladimir Putin, you give him a newly resuscitated Soviet prize — and a brand-new theater.
(2 May)
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Coaxing The Baby To Sleep: A Violinist's Hand-Picked Lullabies
Rachel Barton Pine says that while recording an album of music designed to help babies sleep, it helped to keep her own infant daughter in mind.
(1 May)
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Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical Seven Deadly Sins, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century. Slatkin says Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov struggled with the idea of being 20th-century composers while having hearts and souls grounded in prior traditions. The orchestra performs Ravel's La valse and two lesser-known Rachmaninov works.
(1 May)
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Tristan Perich On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
The '1-Bit Symphony' composer makes big music with tiny electronics. A visit with the sound, visual and installation artist reveals hundreds of bins — from a carton marked "squeezing tools" (scissors, pliers) to one simply labeled "art."
(30 April)
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Remembering Janos Starker, The Cellist 'Born To Be A Teacher'
Although renowned as a soloist and Grammy winner, the famed cellist devoted much of his life to teaching students at Indiana University. Starker died Sunday at age 88.
(29 April)
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Janos Starker, A Master Of The Cello, Dies At 88
Cellist Janos Starker has died at 88, ending a life and career that saw him renowned for his skills as a soloist, his prodigious work with orchestras, and his commitment to teaching. Starker was born in Budapest in 1924; his path to international stardom included surviving a Nazi labor camp.
(29 April)
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Madame Mao's Hollywood Fantasies
See and hear examples of politically dogmatic — but extravagantly assembled — operas and ballets born during the Cultural Revolution. Glamorous photo stills by Zhang Yaxin of works like Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy were recently shown in Canada.
(26 April)
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Explore Madame Mao's Hollywood Fantasies
See and hear examples of politically dogmatic — but extravagantly assembled — operas and ballets born during the Cultural Revolution. Glamorous photo stills by Zhang Yaxin of works like Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy were recently shown in Canada.
(26 April)
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The Ultimate Soloist
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(26 April)
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Music We Love Now: Three Must-Hear Piano Albums
The young Ingolf Wunder shines in Mozart, Jorge Federico Osorio reintroduces a Mexican classic and Elisveta Blumina reveals the gentle side of Valentine Silvestrov in three compelling new piano recordings.
(23 April)
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First Listen: David Lang, 'Death Speaks'
With help from Franz Schubert and four stellar musicians, David Lang ponders the afterlife. Hear the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's new album in its entirety.
(22 April)
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A Moment With Pulitzer-Winning Composer Caroline Shaw
The violinist, vocalist and composer says that writing a piece like her prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices begins with "having a sound in your head that you really want to hear."
(20 April)
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Live Now: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner at Carnegie Hall Live
When the venerable orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners will hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."
(19 April)
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The Art Of The Centri-Fugue
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(19 April)
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Tonight at 8 PM: Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner
When the venerable orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners will hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."
(19 April)
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How Do You Handle Loneliness On The Road?
The refreshingly open American mezzo Joyce DiDonato doles out some great advice — and not just to aspiring singers. In her latest YouTube video, she tackles subjects ranging from alienation to friendships to creating a life free from expectations of what's "right."
(18 April)
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The Conductor Who Gained Power By Giving It Up
What impressed most about Colin Davis wasn't his extraordinarily broad view of music and art, his eloquent turns of phrase, or even his naughty sense of humor, but it was instead something less tangible — his sense of self.
(17 April)
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Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner
When the venerable orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners will hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."
(17 April)
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Morton Subotnick And Joan La Barbara On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
The pioneering electronic composer responsible for Silver Apples of the Moon turned 80 years old this week. Q2 Music visited with Subotnick and his wife, vocalist Joan La Barbara, in the couple's Greenwich Village apartment for this installment of their web series Spaces.
(17 April)
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Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner
When the venerable orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners will hear an ensemble completely comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."
(16 April)
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Appreciating A Pillar Of The Chicago Sound: Trumpeter Bud Herseth
The legendary musician, widely adored by brass players and fans around the globe, spent 53 years as the principal in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He died Saturday at age 91. Watch some of his performances, including an extraordinary Mahler Fifth Symphony.
(16 April)
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Caroline Shaw, 30, Wins Pulitzer For Music
The versatile composer, violinist and vocalist is one of just a handful of female musicians to earn the prize — and, at age 30, the youngest music winner ever. Her 'Partita for 8 Voices' was written for the debut recording by the vocal ensemble with which she performs, Roomful of Teeth.
(15 April)
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Maria Callas On The Move: A Diva Does D.C.
After a week on the town, with visits to the White House, the Opera House and Ben's Chili Bowl, NPR Music's Diva-in-Residence (and cardboard cut-out) makes her way to our brand-new headquarters.
(15 April)
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Remembering Colin Davis, A Conductor Beloved Late In Life
The English conductor was knighted in 1980 and won three Grammys — but did not reach the real heights of his career until he was in his sixties and seventies. Famed for his interpretations of Berlioz, Sibelius and Mozart as well as contemporary composers, he died at age 85 on Sunday.
(15 April)
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Extreme Drama: The Life And Music Of Richard Wagner
Marking the 200th anniversary of the controversial composer's birth, conductor Marin Alsop and friends rethink Wagner in a series of multimedia concerts.
(13 April)
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Portrait Of The Heldentenor As A Young Man
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(12 April)
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Tokyo String Quartet Bids Boston A Bittersweet Farewell
After 43 seasons, the revered ensemble, born in Japan, calls it quits. Here, the players serenade Boston at WGBH, with a concert of music by Haydn, Bartok and Ravel.
(10 April)
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Can Yo-Yo Ma Fix The Arts?
In a recent lecture on the arts, the eclectic cellist made a plea for the power of diversity. When artists from divergent disciplines commingle, Ma says, it creates a "time and space for transformation."
(9 April)
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Chopin's 'Mad Men' Cameo
Fans of the AMC series know it uses pop music as well as any TV show. But Don Draper's world has its classical corners, too. In the the sixth season's opening episode, Chopin played a key role — as Beethoven had done in the previous season.
(8 April)
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Vespers, Habaneras And Early Morning Walks: New Classical Albums
From the radiant voices of a Latvian choir to a fresh young string quartet and a seasoned symphony, NPR's Tom Huizenga and host Jacki Lyden spin an eclectic mix of new classical releases.
(7 April)
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Vespers, Habaneras And Early Morning Walks: New Classical Albums
From the radiant voices of a Latvian choir to a fresh young string quartet and a seasoned symphony, NPR's Tom Huizenga and host Jacki Lyden spin an eclectic mix of new classical releases.
(7 April)
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Rocking Horse
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(5 April)
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Singing The Praises Of Pre-Dawn Walks
Winter Morning Walks, an album featuring jazz composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, revolves around meditations on nature and beauty by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. All three artists have had battles with cancer — when, Schneider says, "everything in life becomes heightened."
(5 April)
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Huberman's List: How A Violinist Saved Jews In World War II
The story of how legendary violinist Bronislaw Huberman used his prestige and fame toward a heroic end inspired a documentary film. See the trailer and learn more about the founding of what became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
(4 April)
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Remembering Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer Robert Ward
The composer is best remembered for his operatic retelling of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which debuted at New York City Opera in 1961 and has since been staged all over the globe. Ward died Tuesday morning at age 95.
(3 April)
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Lochlannach Phil Lockout Jump-Started By Kickstarter
A beloved regional orchestra in Minnesota ends months of labor difficulty by replacing union musicians with unpaid community members. Hear the result — you won't believe it.
(1 April)
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Marching To 'Easter Monday On The White House Lawn'
One of John Philip Sousa's happiest marches depicts the day each year when kids rule in Washington.
(1 April)
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Singing The Praises Of Pre-Dawn Walks
Winter Morning Walks, an album featuring jazz composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, revolves around meditations on nature and beauty by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. All three artists have had battles with cancer — when, Schneider says, "everything in life becomes heightened."
(1 April)
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Jace Clayton Revives A Forgotten Voice From New York's Vanguard
Even among experimentalists like Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the composer Julius Eastman stood out: black, gay and politically provocative. Clayton's new album is a tribute to the singular artist who burned out too early.
(30 March)
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Jace Clayton Revives A Forgotten Voice From New York's Vanguard
Even among experimentalists like Philip Glass and Steve Reich, the composer Julius Eastman stood out: black, gay and politically provocative. Clayton's new album is a tribute to a singular artist who burned out too early.
(30 March)
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Mozart's K. 401
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(29 March)
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Marches Madness: Rubbing Aladdin's Lamp
Carl Nielsen could have used a little more luck after he composed stunningly original music for a theatrical version of the Aladdin story. The director cut and jumbled the score. But in the end, the Danish composer rescued his music by turning it into a popular suite.
(29 March)
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Marches Madness: Spielberg's Symphonist
As Hollywood grew increasingly computerized, one man stuck to his Romantic guns. Thanks to John Williams, aliens, wizards, dinosaurs and even humans have cruised across the screen to his sweeping, richly scored orchestral melodies. See Williams conduct the jolly march from the comedy 1941.
(28 March)
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The Good Friday 5: Musical Passion Stories You Must Hear
Before Easter, hear five powerful and diverse musical portrayals of Jesus' last days and crucifixion, from Bach's monumental St. Matthew to Golijov's brilliant Latin American mashup to a dark and terrifying Russian vision from Sofia Gubaidulina.
(28 March)
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Marches Madness: From Trash Can To Flagpole
With its bright beat and direct quote from The Star Spangled Banner, Edwin Bagley's National Emblem march is an American favorite — that almost made the trash bin.
(27 March)
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Marches Madness: 'Turkish' Mozart, Jazzed By An Expert
Meta music: Mozart's Orientalist fantasy, tweaked by Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say.
(27 March)
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Live At Carnegie Hall: Jonathan Biss and The Elias String Quartet
In an art form filled with tortured souls, Robert Schumann stands out — even more than 150 years after his death. Hear one of America's finest young pianists and an emerging English string quartet play music by the visionary composer, as well as music by Mozart and artists Schumann influenced.
(27 March)
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Marches Madness: Royal Wedding Edition
Hear the march that accompanied the wedding of William and Kate — and Charles and Diana: William Walton's Crown Imperial, originally written for the Duke of Windsor.
(26 March)
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Beyond 'Dayenu': What's Your Music Of Liberation?
With Passover beginning, Jews around the world prepared to commemorate this major holiday with food, prayers and songs. We're on the hunt for music that helps spool out stories of enslavement and liberation.
(26 March)
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Beyond 'Dayenu': What's Your Music Of Liberation?
With Passover beginning at sundown tonight, Jews around the world are preparing to commemorate this major holiday with food, prayers and songs. We're on the hunt for music that helps spool out stories of enslavement and liberation.
(25 March)
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Marches Madness: From Trash Can To Flagpole
With its bright beat and direct quote from The Star Spangled Banner, Edwin Bagley's National Emblem march is an American favorite — that almost made the trash bin.
(25 March)
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Merritt And Dinnerstein, A Musical Odd Couple, On Bridging Their Worlds
Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein say the challenge of their new collaborative album, Night, was creating a language they could both speak. They discuss the project and perform live.
(24 March)
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Marches Madness: A Dancer's Joy
Meredith Monk's march lives up to its "Light" name — it's a pure distillation of joy.
(22 March)
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The Unannounced Symphony
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(22 March)
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Remembering Risë Stevens, A Star Of Opera And Pop Culture
The mezzo-soprano with the smoky, sultry voice defined Carmen for generations — and earned Hollywood fame at the prime of her career. Stevens died Wednesday at 99.
(21 March)
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Marches Madness: Mahler's Twisted Nursery Rhyme
The idea of transforming the children's song "Frère Jacques" into a funeral march was both creepy and ingenious, making Gustav Mahler's very first symphony a bold game changer.
(21 March)
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Marches Madness: Mahler's Twisted Nursery Rhyme
The idea of transforming the children's song "Frère Jacques" into a funeral march was both creepy and ingenious, making Gustav Mahler's very first symphony a bold game changer.
(21 March)
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Marches Madness: Walk Like An Egyptian
In an art form notorious for its excesses, Verdi's Aida can take the bigger-is-better approach to nearly laughable extremes. But its grand "Triumphal March" is built on a simple foundation.
(21 March)
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Marches Madness: Freshly Squeezed Oranges In 4/4 Time
If you fell in love with oranges, would you scour the world to find them? Prokofiev's absurdist, citrus-scented opera features zany plot lines, curious characters and one little march that made it big.
(21 March)
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Marches Madness: Hurray For Taxes!
A tiny tax hike between the World Wars started a musical revolution. Hear a community band from Wisconsin play the Iowa Band Law March, which celebrates municipal support of music.
(20 March)
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Marches Madness: High-Stepping To Scott Joplin
While Scott Joplin was the king of ragtime, he had his heart set on writing opera. His only surviving score, Treemonisha, ends with a slow march that's "happy as a bird in June."
(19 March)
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Music We Love Now: New Albums Of Bach, Beethoven And Brahms
New albums of music by the "Three Bs" prove that going back to the basics has its advantages. Hear a sweet-toned violin concerto, an audacious piano sonata and a solo cello suite caressed by a lute.
(19 March)
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Marches Madness: Freshly Squeezed Oranges In 4/4 Time
If you fell in love with oranges, would you scour the world to find them? Prokofiev's absurdist, citrus-scented opera features zany plot lines, curious characters and one little march that made it big.
(18 March)
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How Does A Jewish Artist Tell The Ultimate Christian Story?
How does an Argentine Jewish artist approach the ultimate Christian narrative? MacArthur "genius" Osvaldo Golijov says it's by creating a "Latin American Jesus." His Passion According to St. Mark was recently staged at Carnegie Hall with a diverse group of singers from New York schools.
(17 March)
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How Does A Jewish Artist Tell The Ultimate Christian Story?
How does an Argentine Jewish artist approach the ultimate Christian narrative? MacArthur "genius" Osvaldo Golijov says it's by creating a "Latin American Jesus." His Passion According to St. Mark is being staged at Carnegie Hall with a diverse group of singers from New York schools.
(17 March)
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Stradivari Is My Co-Pilot
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.
(15 March)
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Marches Madness: Beware Friday The 15th!
You read that right. Forget Friday the 13th and beware the Ides of March instead. (It was great advice, even if Julius Caesar didn't take it.) Comfort yourself in the glory that was Rome, courtesy of Respighi's blazing "Pines of the Appian Way" — performed on another momentous occasion.
(15 March)
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The Classical Pianist With 55 Million YouTube Hits
Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa decided to rev up her stalled-out career in a very 21st-century way: by putting up dozens of videos of herself playing core repertoire. Now she's a superstar by any traditional standard. Do her major-label recordings matter?
(15 March)
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Marches Madness: Heralding The Pope
The composer of Faust also wrote music fit for a pope. Wednesday, before the introduction of Pope Francis, a marching band played opera composer Charles Gounod's Pontifical March. Hear the stately, serene Vatican anthem.
(14 March)
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The Classical Pianist With 55 Million YouTube Hits
Ukranian pianist Valentina Lisitsa decided to rev up her stalled-out career in a very 21st-century way: by putting up dozens of videos of herself playing core repertoire. Now she's a superstar by any traditional standard. Do her major-label recordings matter?
(14 March)
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Breaking: Pope Francis Loves Opera
Pretty much the first thing that New York's Cardinal Egan shared about the new pointiff, the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires? That he loves opera.
(14 March)
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Breaking: Pope Francis I Loves Opera
Pretty much the first thing that New York's Cardinal Egan shared about the new pointiff, the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires? That he loves opera.
(13 March)
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Marches Madness: Patriotic Pandemonium
The son of a Civil War bandmaster wrote a march as raucous as two parades colliding. See a performance of Charles Ives' "Putnam's Camp" from Three Places in New England. It's a giddy fantasy about a small-town Fourth of July.
(13 March)
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'Soldier Songs': Can Effective And Affecting Art Come Out Of War?
A new opera by David T. Little chronicles three generations of soldiers' experiences in journalistic style — and resurrects some important questions about the function of art.
(13 March)
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Dan Deacon On Q2 Music's 'Spaces'
Spaces is Q2 Music's new series of documentaries that capture creative composers in their practice studios. The first installment focuses on the always eccentric Dan Deacon, who turned a former Baltimore concert venue into his personal studio.
(12 March)
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Tell Us: Are Ballet And Opera Elitist?
London's Covent Garden opera house hosted a debate Monday about the barriers between opera and ballet and the people. What's your opinion?
(12 March)
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Marches Madness: Walk Like An Egyptian
In an art form notorious for its excesses, Verdi's Aida can take the bigger-is-better approach to nearly laughable extremes. But its grand "Triumphal March" is built on a simple foundation.
(12 March)
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Marches Madness: Sticking Together
The pomp is more than circumstantial in performances of a genial Norwegian march. A drumline from the home country executes precision maneuvers while a conductor in Russia sports most excellent facial hair.
(11 March)
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First Listen: Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt, 'Night'
Opposites attract in Night, a genre-blurring album that pairs alt-country singer-songwriter Tift Merritt with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein. There's a solemn intimacy to these songs, and how they're delivered, that speaks one-on-one.
(11 March)
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