- "forever forward in search of the beautiful" - Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer whose practice "explores radical indigenous contemporaneity," and she has a compositional voice worth melting into. Here the music is sparse and unhurried, a welcome change of pace from the frenetic and information-saturated world we inhabit.
- "Baroque Concertos" - trumpeter Alison Balsom breathes new life into music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with these concerto adaptations from Simon Wright. Balsom describes the upper register of the piccolo trumpet as "intensely sweet," and that it is: her playing is pristine and gleaming but never too precious.
- "Sonic Wires" - the Dream House Quartet (sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque, guitarist and composer Bryce Dessner, and guitarist David Chalmin) share an album full of music from some of today's most ingenious composers: Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, David Lang, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
- "Mirrors" - One year after their debut album, violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang present a new release bookended by two titles composed during the Second World War: Poulenc's Violin Sonata and Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1. Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, a tranquil meditation, provides a moment of respite from the intensity of the two longer pieces.
- "Persist" - works from four early-career composers fill out this new release from the genre-defying string quartet ETHEL alongside flutist Allison Loggins-Hull. The record celebrates music by artists from historically underrepresented backgrounds, from Sam Wu's Terraria, which leads the listener through a miniature forest of sound, to Migiwa Miyajima's jazzy Reconciliation Suite.
