LATEST ADDITIONS

Anne-Sophie Mutter: East Meets West; Midori: Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto, Robert & Clara Schumann: Chamber Works; Osvaldo Golijov: Ever Yours; Riccardo Frizza: Italian Perspectives.

Out Of/Into: Motion II; Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Strasbourg 82; Bijan Taghavi: Cactus Sessions.

Zach Bryan: With Heaven on Top; Counting Crows: Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!; The Damned: Not Like Everybody Else.

There are craftspeople and companies in high-end audio doing admirable work. Those at the cost-no-object end of the business are pushing performance limits and doing new and better things with new and better materials. The ones I especially admire, though, are in the high-value end of the business, making extraordinary equipment at approachable prices.

As I listened to the newly remastered edition of John Coltrane's Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings, I read through some critics' takes, which make it apparent just how far critics tend to trail the musicians they cover, the great ones at least.