My picks of the year's best recordings and Richmond area performances of classical music, and the picks of my fellow music critics at Style Weekly (including the band that made Hilary Langford want to "run away naked with the gypsies"), now in print and online at:
And with that, 2008 is a wrap at Letter V. Best wishes for the year to come. Dress warmly if you're going out on New Year's Eve – another one of those 30-degree temperature drops, to the low 20s, is forecast from afternoon to overnight.