20th Century

Today's "Sound Perimeter" features pieces by 20th century American composers Ruth Crawford Seeger and Samuel Barber, with their innovative approach to rhythms and textures.

“This eloquent composition [Shostakovich], pushing all bearable limits with its melancholic and dazzlingly expeditious features found a perfect match in…

Hailed by The New York Times as a pianist “of a fiery sensibility and warm touch,” Anna Shelest's new album explores Prokofiev's first two piano…

Before composing The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky unexpectedly wrote a piano-led orchestral piece, Petrushka, that is experimental, playful, and a…

"Fantastic variations on a theme of knightly character," is the whimsically longwinded subtitle to Richard Strauss’ "Don Quixote," which is considered by…

Ernest Bloch’s Violin Sonata No. 1 is widely considered one of the most demanding and technically complicated for the instrument.Composer Roger Sessions…

“The greatness of Shostakovich’s music lies beyond politics,” Maestro Andris Nelsons says. “It speaks to people whether they know the times he lived in or…

Although best known for scoring Alfred Hitchock films, Bernard Herrmann was adept at stand-alone chamber music. His Souvenir de Voyage, written for…

“That this score contains the best of me I do not doubt,” Frank Bridge wrote in a letter to his patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of his 3rd String…

The Amores Pasados release from John Potter, Anna Maria Friman, Ariel Abramovich & Jacob Heringman explores new lute songs alongside 17th century…