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Ten albums released this year that you absolutely, positively won't want to miss — from marquee artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Michael Tilson Thomas to fresh discoveries, including American composer Michael Harrison, Denmark's Vagn Holmboe and a forgotten Baroque man of mystery.

"With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come." Those words, from President Obama's first inaugural address, have been set to music on a new album. Celebrating the American Spirit also features Broadway star Kelli O'Hara singing Bernstein.

From a postmodern take on caroling to a gloriously loopy 'Sleigh Ride,' videos that sing out with classical holiday cheer.

Performance Today host Fred Child highlights yMusic, a piano duo and the Emerson String Quartet.

The elegant countertenor shares some of his favorite folk music, jazz and his own (!) club tune, all in service of not being a "specialist idiot."

In the age of rock, big bands offered a suggestion that musical power could still emanate from non-electric sources.

These tunes from 2011 each exemplify how great singers and great songs fit together. Hear music featuring vocalists like Kurt Elling, Eliane Elias and Norah Jones.

The late jazz pioneer's mission was to make drumming a more musical, lyrical experience.

A new release premieres little-known symphonic works by a largely forgotten French master.

Here are 10 examples of radical imagination, and radical re-imagination, in a great year for jazz.