Music and Recording Reviews

Brahms: Piano Concerto 2; Three Intermezzi; Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life; Beethoven: for Three, Vol.4; Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works.

Dave Pietro: Satori; Simón Willson: Feel Love; George Coleman: George Coleman with Strings; Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far.

If you go to Tokyo, there's a good chance you'll develop a new appreciation for shopping malls. The Japanese know malls. They know just what to do with them. Inside a Tokyo mall, you can peruse the usual handbags and shoes in their unending variety. But you can also stare at Fuji apples as large as a baby's head swaddled in tissue paper, flip through the world's most exquisite stationery, stock up on fabric from the 1920s, and taste things that will haunt you well into retirement.

Mahler: Symphony 9, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony/David Bernard; Anna Clyne: Abstractions, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop; Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder | Traveler's Prayer, Synergy Vocals, New York Philharmonic/Japp van Zweden, Colin Currie Group; Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Winter Words; The Prince of the Pagodas, Nicky Spence, tenor; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Edward Gardner.

Wet Leg: Moisturizer; Matt Berninger: Get Sunk; Ty Segall: Possession.

Linda May Han Oh: Strange Heavens; Julian Shore Trio: Sub Rosa; Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag; Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!.

Pulp: More; Lord Huron: The Cosmic Selector, Vol. 1; Craig Finn: Always Been.