Listen to selections from recordings of a new John Adams opera, Chopin études by Yunchan Lim, Brahms works by Igor Levit ... but this recording makes the best case yet for its vitality.

Classical music on record continues to thrive ... and vocal music supplementing the better-known orchestral and piano works—with more than one account of several pieces. Ives’s thorny scores ...

No pianist is receiving more attention right now than Lim, who two years ago became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn competition. And if you listen to this album, his debut studio ...