This week’s episode of The New Canon features Wolfgang Rihm’s musical meditations on the symphonies of Brahms, and electro-acoustic music from Ireland and Denmark.

This week’s episode features works recordings from women’s choir The Crossing, the Molinari String Quartet, and pianist Ivan Sokolov playing Galina Ustvolskaya.

This week on The New Canon we listen to recordings that mix art music with folk music from Brooklyn Rider, Martin Perry and Christine Southworth.

This week’s episode of the New Canon features pianist Eve Egoyan's world premiere recordings of posthumous by Ann Southam, and music for brass by Andrew Rindfleisch. We also hear from our album of the week—a cycle of Schubert-inspired songs by David Lang that features performances by Shara Worden and Bryce Dessner.

This week on the New Canon, we hear from Nick Brooke's "Border Towns," pairing field recordings from the U.S. border with musical quotations of early American popular music. We also sample the Del Sol Quartet's new album of folk-based American music and the Attacca Quartet's recording of John Adams's complete string quartets.

On this week's The New Canon, sample the new solo album by Brooklyn Rider violist Nicholas Cords and enjoy solos for cello, bass and harp by Samuel Adler. Also, hear selections from our current Album of the Week, "Corollaries," by virtuoso pianist/composer Lubomyr Melnyk.

This week we hear from a new compilation of contemporary Irish electroacoustic music, a recent recording of Penderecki and Lutoslawski and Ensemble Signal's new take on Shelter.

On this week's episode of the New Canon, we sample Labor Records new compilation of Central and Eastern European music that uses graphic notation, percussionist Justin Dehart's solo album "Strange Paths" and our current album of the week: Nadia Sirota's "Baroque."

This week’s episode of The New Canon features songs for soprano and orchestra by Maria Schneider, works for solo piano by Constantine Caravassilis, and a cross-generational collaboration between Jace Clayton and the late Julius Eastman

This week's episode of the New Canon features new electroacoustic music from pianist Ludovico Einaudi, works for cello and piano by David Wolfson and the premiere recording of Philip Glass's Cello Concerto No. 2.

This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings from Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and Tim Brady as well as selections from Lark Quartet's new album featuring music of Jennifer Higdon.

This week on the New Canon, we hear a new recording of early symphonic works by Benjamin Britten performed by Amsterdam Sinfonietta, ACME's recent release featuring the compositions of Joseph Byrd and selections from "The Edge of Light", our album of the week featuring Gloria Cheng and the Calder Quartet in performance of music by Messiaen and Saariaho.

This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings from Louth Contemporary Music Society, exploring a wide range of music that touches on the theme of spirituality, as well as new choral music from Gabriel Jackson and cellist Alban Gerhardt's take on Benjamin Britten's music for solo cello.

This week's episode of the New Canon features new music from Thea Musgrave and oboist Nicholas Daniel as well as selections from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's new disc of concertos by Thomas Oboe Lee. We'll also hear from our album of the week, an album of lyrical chamber music by composer Dan Visconti.

This week's episode of the New Canon features new recordings of music by Alexander Byrne, Suzanne Farrin and Béla Bartók. Listen Monday at 3 pm.

This week's episode of the New Canon runs the gamut from complex, large scale symphonies from the likes of Henri Dutilleux (via Esa-Pekka Salonen and Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra) and Tan Dun to more intimate performances by percussionist Doug Perkins and Bill Ryan's ensemble Billband.

Witold Lutoslawski would have turned 100 this month if he were still alive. This week on The New Canon, we'll hear new recordings of his music, as recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen as well as music by Pascal Dusapin and fellow centennialer Jean Francais.

This week's episode of the New Canon features a new recording from French composer Paul Dusapin, an innovative pairing of Bach and Shostakovich by the baroque orchestra Ensemble Caprice and our current album of the week, Paul Moravec's "Northern Lights Electric." Hear the whole show on demand.

This week on The New Canon, we hear new recordings of music by Poul Ruders, George Benjamin, Barbara Pentland and Benjamin Britten

This week's episode of The New Canon features new recordings of music by Benjamin Britten, Edison Denisov and Lei Liang, whose latest disc marrying Chinese and European modernist traditions is our album of the week. Listen to the show on demand.