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Bryars' first major composition, The Sinking of the Titanic, still sounds as vital, fresh and forward-thinking as it did when it was written in 1969. The piece was performed in 2008 as part of the Wordless Music Series recorded by WNYC in New York City.

Although an agnostic, Verdi was a man of profound conscience and spirituality. In his Requiem, he projects the essentials of humanity — piety, emotion, agitation and capacity for hope — as compassionately and dramatically as in his operas.

Donizetti had already composed more than 60 operas when he wrote Don Pasquale, a brilliant comedy warmed by the composer's trademark touch of gentle pathos. The production is from the Grand Theatre of Geneva.

Musicians have a long tradition of staring down military dictatorships and oppressive governments in Brazil.

The title track from Ward's remarkable Post-War, this weary, trancelike spell of a song anticipates a moment of reckoning. It doesn't bring solutions or add to the rhetoric of grief — instead, the sleepy tenderness of Ward's voice, framed by pedal-steel guitar, offers an aura of consolation.

Dave Brubeck rarely gives interviews, but the jazz piano legend recently sat down for a lively conversation with The Tavis Smiley Show reporter Allison Keyes. Listen to an extended version of the interview, and hear samples from his latest CDs — one with an intimate jazz combo, the other a symphony orchestra.

Give it up for this as a peak experience: a stolen moment with some ice cream. It might just come down to that, and that's probably an idea worth savoring. The Wood Brothers, anchored by Medeski, Martin & Wood bassist Chris Wood, combine simplicity with metaphysics.

Hypnotic grooves, funktacular space-jams and a little bit of throat singing. It's another episode of All Songs Considered, chock full of music to make you feel alive.

On its seventh album, the Canadian band returns to the spiky, effusive pleasures of guitar-driven rock and roll.

The Tiny Desk blooms with the stanzas, sounds and legacy of jazz poetry.