The all-female group whips a furious lather on its recent disc, "Silence Yourself" (Matador/Pop Noire), one of the best debuts of the year — not least for their fractious track "Husbands," which should be screeched at all contentious divorce hearings.
This more recent disc has an icy cool, metallic edge in its sparse electronics, with shapes cast from a fiery pit of guitar.
However, the unexpected Americana influence in his most recent disc, "Illuminations" (Reprise), suggests a sincere, intriguing restlessness behind the angelic visage.
Mr. Hadelich often writes his own cadenzas (posted on his Web site, augustin-hadelich.de), including those for the Haydn concertos he recorded with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra on a recent Naxos disc.
The nickname was used as the title of a book, "Mr. Rigoletto: In Conversation With Louis Quilico" (1996), by Mr. Quilico's wife, the pianist and writer Christina Petrowska, and as the title of a recent compact disc retrospective, "Mr. Rigoletto: My Life in Music".
With the Cockaigne overture as an affectionately shaped fill-up, it's not a revelation on the level of Barenboim's recent disc of the Second Symphony, but still well worth hearing.
Joshua Bell's ethereal playing and boyish charm have won him devoted fans, and his reach may be widening through various crossover projects and other marketable ventures, including his most recent disc, "Romance of the Violin" (Sony Classical), featuring a grab bag of lyrical bonbons transcribed for his instrument.
The ska-punk group's most recent disc is "Goodbye Blue & White" (Fueled by Ramen), a dopey collection of covers and oddities.
His most recent disc was Bad for You Baby, from 2008.
The program opened with Parts 1 and 2 of "Great Circle's Tune" from Lukas Ligeti's recent disc "Afrikan Machinery".
