Improvising in an ambient space is something that doesn’t happen so often, especially if you intend on staying in that space and not, say, dropping in Black Sabbath power chords or John Coltrane ...

I’m always a little skeptical of music masquerading as tone poems, citing some vast vista like the Grand Canyon or the Himalayas or the Taj Mahal that is inspiring the music. I’m sure that’s true for ...

Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili’s DG debut constitutes a kind of Soviet and post-Soviet mood-painting. Batiashvili collaborates with French pianist Hélène Grimaud in Arvo Pärt’s atmospheric ...