- Martin Fröst, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra: “Jesper Nordin: Emerging from Currents and Waves (Live)” (BIS)
- Angélique Kidjo, Filharmonie Brno, Dennis Russell Davies: “Philip Glass: Symphony No. 12, ‘Lodger’” (Orange Mountain Music)
- Nightingale String Quartet: “Vagn Holmboe: String Quartets, Vol. 2” (Dacapo)
If Elon Musk’s Twitter deal had gone through, would there have been more Schoenberg discourse, less Schoenberg discourse, or the same amount of Schoenberg discourse on the platform? I’m not sure what prompted the latest round that seems to have taken over Classical Music Twitter this week—and I take musicologist Carrie Allen Tipton’s fruitless search for “Schoenberg Zero” as a cautionary tale against trying to find out.