Violinist Lisa Batiashvili is brilliant in Beethoven, and the orchestra responds marvelously to Ticciati.
Baroque cantatas that set the Roman story are gloriously sung on the latest release from French early-music ensemble Les Paladins.
Sony Classical has put out a 22-CD anthology that captures the heyday of recordings devoted to this American composer.
It’s not easy to parse the composer’s ironic, often anguished music, even 50 years after his death.
