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Confessing a little guilt, Conductor Nicholas McGegan listens to music by composers named Strauss like one eats a huge portion of chocolate cake behind closed doors.

Guitarist and composer Marc Ribot's latest album, Silent Movies, pays tribute to film scores. The creation of the album, he says, allowed him to express his more lyrical side.

The pianist talks to All Things Considered host Robert Siegel about her new recording of J.S. Bach's keyboard music, titled Bach: A Strange Beauty.

The composer, who was born in 1908 and won two Pulitzer Prizes for music that could be challenging and adventurously modern, died in New York.

The Spanish-French musician says the initial thinking behind his new album, Mediterranees, was not to compose music for a band. Instead, he says he wanted to make a concept album inspired by music across the Mediterranean and beyond.

Howard Thurston was once one of the biggest names in show business— even more famous than his great rival Harry Houdini. But today, he's mostly forgotten. A new book draws the curtain back on Thurston's secrets, both magical and mundane.

The dynamic conductor makes magic with Tchaikovsky's symphonic version of Shakespeare's enigmatic play The Tempest. Set on a far-off island, the motion of the sea rises and falls within patterns in the strings.

Rippling piano chords and oscillating strings give the British composer's new concerto, "The Solway Canal," the feel of a boat cutting forward through calm waters. Hear an excerpt.

Probably best known for her work with the Grammy-winning jazz star Esperanza Spalding, the singer crafts something profound on The Lost and Found.

Soft and insistent, breathy and sometimes wordless, she doesn't have the voice of Ella, or Sarah, or Betty. But she doesn't need it; on her third album, she's got plenty of that slippery, you-know-it-when-you-hear-it quality often abbreviated "musicality."