Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han — artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS), founders and directors of Music@Menlo festival, and founders of the classical record label ArtistLed — present Beethoven’s six Piano Trios in a landmark new recording project bringing together six of today’s leading violinists: Benjamin Beilman, Chad Hoopes, Paul Huang, Kristin Lee, …

Themes of art song, poetry and spirituality run throughout the second album by Korean-American violinist Danbi Um, performed with Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen. Poème Mystique centers Richard Strauss’s intimate Violin Sonata, written in the year he met his future wife, and Ernest Bloch’s Second Violin Sonata, the title work of the album. By turns ecstatic, spiritual, and fantasy-like, in his …