New Classical Tracks®

Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero brings creativity, compassion and awareness to her new recording of original works and a piece by Rachmaninoff.

On the week of Itzhak Perlman's 70th birthday, New Classical Tracks takes a look at 'The Perlman Sound,' a three-CD, career-retrospective set. 'I'm a very firm believer in the audience,' Perlman says. 'They know when something comes across the stage that's electric.'

Violinist Angele Dubeau's 39th recording is another in her series of musical portraits of living composers, and celebrates Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi.

Members of the Catalyst Quartet describe their new recording by using the words Bach himself used: 'Composed for music lovers, to refresh their spirits.' Find out more about the album.

Arranger Steve Barta accepted the challenge of creating a symphonic arrangement of Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio. He found the experience both challenging and eye-opening.

Stephen Hough and Steven Isserlis worked together on an album that showcases cello sonatas by composer pianists. Hear more about these Mendelssohn-Grieg-Hough Cello Sonatas.

To record the music of Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi, mandolinist Avi Avital recruited the Venice Baroque Orchestra. "Recording this Venetian music with an orchestra that's actually all from Venice just added this extra spice to it," Avital explains.

The latest album by Kirk Elliot and the Orchestra of Unmitigated Gaul is inspired by mediaeval stories and songs -- even the instruments have stories behind them.

Stephen Layton and British vocal ensemble Polyphony have assembled a collection of choral works by composers Layton calls 'the real grandfathers of American choral music writ large.'

The fourth project of four-hand piano duo ZOFO celebrates the 80th birthday of Terry Riley, an iconic American composer who's one of the founders of the Minimalist movement.