Everything Sarah Cahill has done as a champion of 20th-and 21st-century classical music in the San Francisco Bay Area—as a music journalist, radio programmer, and concert producer—pales in comparison to her solo piano recordings. A ...

Stephanie Blythe is an A-List opera singer with a big voice who’s used to performing in big rooms. Blythe, who was Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year for 2009, performs often at the 3800-seat Metropolitan ...

The Oslo-based 2L label, the outfit that last year gave us the sensational La Voie Triomphale, is back with another program of symphonic wind ensemble music. The results, musically and sonically, are just as remarkable. ...

Courtesy of HDtracks comes a recital of string quartets from Brooklyn Rider, the latest hipster chamber music group, who follow in the honored tradition of Tashi, Kronos, and eighth blackbird. A Walking Fire is thoroughly ...

Most of the songs that make up what we now call The Great American Songbook originated in Broadway shows. These were songs everyone knew, sang along with and danced to, and were written by George ...

March 25, 2014 - There's no doubt about it; we are living in the Golden Age of Headphone Design. At every price category, headphones have never sounded better. You can hear superior detailing and clarity ...

The Silk Road Ensemble, originally developed at Tanglewood by Yo-Yo Ma, is now ten years old. The group’s latest effort, Off the Map, encompasses myriad musical flavors that hail from beyond the ancient Silk Road ...

March 3, 2014 - HDtracks has just announced their recent partnership with Liztic, a brand-new music management software that allows users to stream high-resolution audio through any device running iOS, Mac, Windows, or Android. Many ...

In these ten beautifully performed and recorded choral pieces, most of them about love and loss, the chamber choir Conspirare rejoices in Samuel Barber’s ardent but modern romanticism. Though Barber’s idiom, firmly tonal and melodic, ...

As soon as I was old enough to drive I would make regular treks from my parents’ house on the Peninsula to what for many years was one of the country’s great record stores, Tower ...

It seems like there’s always some hot-button issue for audiophiles to debate. For the last couple of years, it was the ability to play high-resolution (176.4 or 192kHz/24-bit) computer-audio music files. Now it’s almost impossible ...

Did you ever think about the possibility of “reading” record grooves? Well, neither did I until my wife and I attended a New Year’s Eve party with several physician colleagues and their wives around 1980. ...

Thirty-five years after his death, American composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-75) is finally getting the recognition he deserves, along with credit for the irreplaceable role his music played in some of the greatest films of the ...

Wilson Audiophile Recordings—dormant all these years—has chosen well for its first HD downloads. Recital: James Welch is a stunning recording of a modest-sized Flentrop organ. The program is mostly Bach, with a few less familiar ...

With its lush orchestration, wide dynamics, and powerful climaxes, Gustav Holst’s The Planets is a natural audiophile favorite. Zubin Mehta’s 1971 version with the L.A. Philharmonic [Decca/London] has long been on TAS founder Harry Pearson’s ...