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Handel's deeply felt musical setting of the life of Christ conveys the emotional tide of its story with almost miraculous insight. In the process, it's acquired a universality that is unique in the history of music.

Mstislav Rostropovich defined for his era the art and technique of playing the cello. His performance of Dvorak's stirring Cello Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic remains one of classical music's most lauded recordings.

Michael Penn seemed like a budding superstar in 1989, but he's never fully capitalized on his early momentum. His commercially under-appreciated 2005 album Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947, led by "Walter Reed," just received a deluxe reissue treatment.

Count Basie broke up his band in 1950 because of financial considerations, but later reorganized and embarked on a series of recording sessions that solidified him as an American jazz institution. This album focuses on the post-1954 period, when vocalist Joe Williams gave the band new popularity with such hits as "All Right OK, You Win."

An Irish-born singer with a husky voice, Katell Keineg remains virtually unknown. Spend a moment with her 1994 album O Seasons O Castles, and it's hard not to be puzzled by the disc's failure to reach a large audience: Its wildly inspired songs aspire to the sprawl and sweep of epic novels.

The disco-inspired band's new album is slick and stylish and light, and clearly in thrall to the sound it revisits. But there's weight behind it, too.

This week on Alt.Latino, the two iconic Brazilians discuss history and music.

Hear the famed contralto sing Verdi in a newly issued 1955 radio broadcast, live from the Metropolitan Opera.

On this week's All Songs Considered, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis collaborate with fellow Seattle band Fences, plus new music from Frazey Ford, Spider Bags, Zola Jesus, GOAT and more.

It began as a minimal folk duo playing on the streets of Boston, but Tall Heights experiments with the sonic potential of a cello and guitar in "Infrared." Watch the new lyric video.