Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....

With her latest album, "Gravity", Finnish-born and Baltimore-raised pianist and songwriter Ruut delivers a patient, profoundly moving chronicle of what it means to rebuild oneself from the inside out. Named the Finlandia Foundation’s 2026 Performer of the Year, she spent fifteen years quietly compiling these songs. They existed as private prayers and steady companions through turbulent seasons, bridging the disciplined grace of her classical...